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Based in the UK, Curve are building a financial super-app, a smart wallet that consolidates all your debit and credit cards into a single app and card, simplifying how millions of users spend, send and save money. However, operating at this scale means confronting a high-volume, ever-evolving landscape of financial crime. While traditional fraud detection models are excellent at flagging suspicious individual transactions, they often miss the "bigger picture"—the complex networks and hidden rela
We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to summarize or synthesize information over millions of rows of unstructured or even multimodal data. Summarize millions of rows with one line of SQL: AI.AGG While BigQuery already offers powerful AI functions that help you analyze individual rows of data, an
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we’re discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle security. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([('title', 'Get vital board insights with Google Cloud'), ('body', <wa
You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren't already in your contacts. Usernames are available to reserve starting this week, givi
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and se
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AI agents are quickly moving beyond chat. They inspect code, run tests, read documents, search knowledge bases, query internal systems, and operate for hours on... AI agents are quickly moving beyond chat. They inspect code, run tests, read documents, search knowledge bases, query internal systems, and operate for hours on behalf of a user. This unlocks productivity, but can also give agents access to sensitive enterprise data and the ability to complete tasks and take action across business sys
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