Meta Platforms, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Adobe Inc.

The proliferation of AI-created dipfakes has led to the development of the relatively new industry of Trust as a Service (TaaS). Businesses themselves offer solutions that can provide protection against such dipfakes. Vadim Novikov, Advisor to the President of Almaty Management University (AlmaU), discusses why this is better than government attempts to solve the problem.

The $40 billion problem: How dipfakes led to the emergence of a business on trust

QMMM Holdings Limited

Smart Digital Group Limited

The U.S. SEC has temporarily suspended trading in QMMM Holdings after the stock surged nearly 1,000% in three weeks, citing “potential manipulation” driven by social-media promotions. The Cayman-incorporated company, which until recently operated as a digital media and advertising firm, is the latest to join the wave of businesses adopting a crypto-treasury strategy.

SEC halts QMMM Holdings after three-week 959% surge on crypto-treasury announcement

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Shares of health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group lost about 60% of their value between April and August 2025. Falling financial indicators, change of CEOs (one was killed, the other resigned), investigation of suspicions of fraud against the background of the insurer's ambiguous reputation all converged at one point. And yet Warren Buffett spent $1.6 billion to buy UnitedHealth shares. Should we follow his example?

Old school: why Buffett and Soros bought UnitedHealth stock

Worldline SA

In June, journalists from the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), along with two dozen media outlets, <a href="https://eic.network/projects/dirty-payments.html">published</a> a Dirty Payments investigation centered on French payment operator Worldline. Investigators allege that the company and its subsidiaries spent years serving customers from high-risk industries ranging from online casinos and pornography to pseudo-legal financial services, ignoring internal whistleblowing. The publication triggered <a href="https://www.capitalbrief.com/briefing/worldline-shares-drop-over-20-on-media-allegations-of-fraud-cover-up-6098b195-286f-4f07-8b04-392141b4b66d/">the sharpest biggest stock drop in Worldline's history</a>&nbsp;-almost 40% in a day. How did it expose the weaknesses of the fintech market? &nbsp;

Fraud