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Apollo Global Management, one of the largest private equity firms on the planet, has confirmed a cyberattack from July two thousand twenty six exposed sensitive personal information — names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and more — after hackers used social engineering to breach its cloud environment. The firm is offering two years of identity protection, and says there is no evidence yet of the data surfacing on the dark web.
Shifting to a legal battle brewing in the creator economy, Twitch and Amazon are facing a lawsuit alleging the platform used streamers' livestream content to train artificial intelligence models without consent or compensation. It is the latest in a growing wave of cases testing whether content creators have meaningful rights over how their work feeds the AI machine.
And in the memory market, the numbers are striking. Marvell is pushing a three-tier AI memory architecture that leans on recycled DDR4 chips connected through CXL, as DRAM prices have surged nearly ninety five percent in a single quarter. Meta is already running the approach across millions of servers, reducing server counts by as much as twenty five percent for certain workloads. Memory is now expected to account for roughly thirty percent of hyperscaler capital spending this year.
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