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Columbia University Data Breach Hit 868,969 People—Including Some With No Known Connection to the School

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Hackers Steal 460 GB of Sensitive Student Data from Columbia University

Columbia University’s 2025 cyberattack ultimately exposed personal information belonging to 868,969 people, transforming an incident initially detected through an IT outage into one of the most significant higher-education data breaches of the year. The compromised information included Social Security numbers, contact and demographic information, academic history, admissions and financial-aid records, insurance-related information and certain health … Read more

Apple’s Top AI Executive Ruoming Pang Joins Meta in Multi-Million Dollar Move

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Apple’s Top AI Executive Joins Meta for Millions of Dollars

Apple’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company for Meta Platforms. Pang, manager in charge of the company’s Apple foundation models team, will join Meta’s new superintelligence team for a compensation package worth millions of dollars per year, the report added. The development comes as tech giants such as … Read more

Pope Leo Takes On AI as a Potential Threat to Humanity

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Pope Leo Takes On AI as a Potential Threat to Humanity

Pope Leo warned politicians of the challenges posed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), addressing its potential impact on younger people as a prime concern. Speaking at an event attended by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and parliamentary delegations from 68 countries, Leo revisited a topic that he has raised on a number of … Read more

Meta Appoints Marketing Veteran Arun Srinivas as Head of India Operations

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Meta Appoints Marketing Veteran Arun Srinivas as Head of India Operations

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has announced the appointment of Arun Srinivas as the new Head of its India operations, effective July 1, 2025. The announcement is marking a significant leadership shift in one of Meta’s fastest-growing markets globally. Srinivas will succeed Sandhya Devanathan, who has been elevated to an expanded role overseeing … Read more

Alexandr Wang Built Scale AI to $29 Billion—Now He Leads Meta’s AI Push

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From College Dropout to AI Visionary: Alexandr Wang Builds $29B Startup Backed by Meta

Alexandr Wang’s rise from MIT dropout to the founder of a $29 billion artificial-intelligence company was already one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent startup stories. But the more consequential development came in June 2025, when Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, took a 49% stake and recruited Wang to lead a major overhaul of … Read more