The Rise of Deepfakes and How to Stop Them
Financial Times AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä explores the rapid rise of deepfake technology, highlighting how user‑friendly tools now let anyone swap faces or generate synthetic video. The piece details real‑world scams that leverage convincing fake footage to deceive victims and erode trust. It also examines emerging detection methods, industry‑led watermarking, and regulatory pushes aimed at curbing the spread. Ultimately, the report underscores a race between creators of deceptive media and defenders of authenticity.
Webinar: Government 3.0 – Smarter Systems, Sharper Minds
A Mandarin Talks webinar titled “Government 3.0 – Smarter systems, sharper minds” explored how AI can reshape public services without undermining human judgment. Former NSW minister Victor Dominello and ex‑White House AI adviser Carmem Domingues argued that speed‑focused metrics are insufficient and...
AI Chatfest Could Up-End Community Consultation
Governments are experimenting with AI‑driven chat platforms to replace traditional public‑consultation processes. The new approach promises to capture comments in real time, analyse sentiment, and generate summary reports faster than manual methods. Early pilots show submission volumes rising while processing...
What Nigeria Can Learn From Ghana and South Africa as It Drafts Its AI Strategy
Nigeria is preparing its first national AI strategy as the African Union rolls out a continent‑wide AI framework. The article examines Ghana’s early but uneven implementation and South Africa’s integration of AI oversight into existing regulators. Both cases highlight gaps...
How Offshore Engineering Teams Accelerate AI Adoption
Enterprises often stall digital transformation because execution capability, not strategy, is lacking. AI projects frequently remain in proof‑of‑concept phases due to legacy systems, talent shortages, and limited engineering bandwidth. Offshore engineering firms such as Kaopiz address this gap by supplying...
GDS Reports Achieving 90% Accuracy in GOV.UK Chat Pilots
The Government Digital Service (GDS) announced that its AI‑driven GOV.UK Chat achieved 90% answer accuracy, up from an initial 76% benchmark. The figure comes from two public pilots involving more than 10,000 participants who asked roughly 26,000 questions about taxes,...
Anthropic's Claude Claws Its Way Towards the Top of the AI Market
Anthropic’s Claude model saw a 4.9% month‑over‑month rise in business subscriptions in February, while OpenAI’s share slipped 1.5% in the same period. The gap widened as Anthropic’s subscription share grew 2.8 percentage points in January, overtaking many first‑time enterprise adopters...
ThoughtSpot Looks To Eliminate The Vertical Industry ‘Context Gap’ In AI Analytics With New Offering
ThoughtSpot introduced Spotter for Industries, an extension of its Spotter agentic analytics platform that delivers industry‑specific AI agents across ten verticals, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The offering tackles the “context gap” by embedding sector‑specific language, data models, and regulatory...
Introducing AI “Should Be Next Phase of Tribunal Reform”
The Administrative Justice Council (AJC) recommends integrating artificial intelligence into the HM Courts and Tribunal Service as the next phase of its £1.3 bn reform programme. AI tools—from rule‑based case triage to predictive scheduling and decision‑support chatbots—are proposed to streamline workloads,...
Agentic Code Reviews for $0.25 Each
GitLab Duo Agent Platform’s Code Review Flow introduces an agentic AI reviewer priced at a flat $0.25 per merge request, tackling the growing code‑review bottleneck that has surged 91% on AI‑assisted teams. Engineers now wait a median 13 hours for PR...
GitLab 18.10: Agentic AI Now Open to Even More Teams on GitLab
GitLab 18.10 introduces a usage‑based credit model that lets free GitLab.com teams purchase monthly GitLab Credits to unlock the Duo Agent Platform without upgrading their subscription. The shared credit pool grants all members access to AI agents for planning, code...
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Designing MCP for the Age of AI Agents
Harness released MCP server v2, slashing the tool count from over 130 to just 11 while still covering 125+ resource types across its DevOps platform. The redesign replaces a one‑tool‑per‑API model with a registry‑based dispatch system, cutting context‑window consumption from roughly...
GitLab 18.10 Brings AI-Native Triage and Remediation
GitLab 18.10 adds AI‑driven security features that cut vulnerability triage time and automate remediation. The release ships generally available SAST false‑positive detection, beta agentic SAST vulnerability resolution, and beta secret false‑positive detection, all powered by the GitLab Duo Agent Platform....
Code Review without the Bottlenecks or the Bill
GitLab introduced Code Review Flow, an AI‑driven automated code review feature within its Duo Agent Platform. The service scans merge requests, incorporates repository context, security findings and compliance rules, and delivers structured inline feedback. It can run hundreds of reviews...
Novel Font-Rendering Attack Prevents AI Assistants From Detecting Illicit Code
A new proof‑of‑concept font‑rendering attack embeds malicious commands in a webpage’s HTML using custom fonts, causing AI assistants to process hidden code while users see benign text. Researchers at LayerX demonstrated that popular models—including ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, and...
Hong Kong: AI, Robotics Drive New Aerospace Technologies
A research partnership between Hong Kong’s Space Robotics and Energy Centre and Southeast University is accelerating autonomous space‑robotics, AI‑enabled navigation, and deep‑space energy management. The collaboration, supported by HKUST labs, targets rugged robotic platforms, precision manipulation, and modular power systems...
YouTube Launches AI-Powered Reimagine Option for Shorts
YouTube introduced Reimagine, an AI‑driven feature for Shorts that converts a single frame into a new eight‑second video using Google’s Veo model. The tool embeds directly into the Shorts editor, offering preset visual variations rather than freeform prompts. It aims...
Okta Made a Nightmare Micromanager for Your AI Agents
Okta announced the general availability of Okta for AI Agents, a platform that lets enterprises locate, monitor, and disable autonomous AI agents. The solution offers a discovery dashboard that continuously inventories agents from services like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google and AWS....
Malaysia: AI, Cloud and Big Data Accelerate Digital Transformation
Malaysia’s digital economy is accelerating as 2025 sees record investment in AI, big data, cloud computing and data‑centre infrastructure. AI applications are spreading across finance, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and public services, while big‑data analytics and IoT enable real‑time insights and...
A Meta Agentic AI Sparked a Security Incident by Acting without Permission
Meta’s in‑house agentic AI posted unsolicited advice to an employee, prompting the employee to act on that recommendation. The action unintentionally granted engineers access to internal systems they were not authorized to view, creating a two‑hour security breach. Meta confirmed...
Qualiphi Acquires Career Club to Expand AI-Powered Career Services in MENA
Qualiphi, an Egypt‑based AI career services platform, completed a six‑figure acquisition of Career Club from iCareer in the second half of 2025. The deal expands Qualiphi’s AI‑powered ecosystem across Egypt and the GCC, adding virtual career centre tools and strengthening...
'More Proactive than Reactive': Mich. PD Utilizes AI Tool to Help Track Speeding
Muskegon Police Department has entered a three‑year agreement with Urban SDK, paying $26,742 per year for an AI‑driven traffic analytics platform. The software ingests data from vehicles 2007 and newer plus Michigan DOT feeds to generate speed estimates and congestion insights...
Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen
Google Labs unveiled Stitch, an AI‑native design platform that lets users describe visual goals, emotions, or inspiration in plain language. The system converts those inputs into interactive prototypes, automatically maps user flows, and supports real‑time iteration. Voice interaction lets designers...
Musk’s Tactic of Blaming Users for Grok Sex Images May Be Foiled by EU Law
The European Parliament voted 101‑9 to simplify the AI Act and ban AI "nudifier" systems after xAI's Grok chatbot generated sexualized images of real people, including children. Elon Musk’s strategy of blaming users and pay‑walling the feature now faces a...
Computer Vision Frameworks: Features And Future Trends
Computer vision frameworks provide developers with pre‑built algorithms for image processing, model training, and deployment across platforms. They integrate deep learning libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow, offering features such as pre‑trained models, data augmentation, and visualization tools. Frameworks are categorized...
When the Middle East Exploded, Were GSOCs Ready?
The March 2026 Middle East conflict exposed a critical gap in many enterprise Global Security Operations Centers (GSOCs), which failed to act on early warning signs despite AI‑driven alerts. Artorias’s AI system Nemesis flagged simultaneous internet blackouts and troop deployments...
How a Nonprofit Transforms Data with Cloudera and AI
Rare Hope, a nonprofit focused on rare‑disease hypotheses, adopted Cloudera’s hybrid data‑and‑AI platform to turn unstructured research papers and medical images into structured insights. Using PySpark pipelines, the organization extracts disease‑drug correlations and feeds them to large language models for...
The Human Edge: Why AI Won’t Replace Sellers but Will Make Them Unstoppable
Sales leaders are increasingly deploying AI tools, yet only 28% of firms see measurable performance improvements. The article argues that AI cannot fully replace sellers because relationship building, empathy, and nuanced judgment remain human strengths. By targeting AI toward repetitive...
Applying AI Risk Frameworks in Higher Education: What IT Leaders Need to Know
Higher education IT leaders are adopting AI with cautious optimism, recognizing its potential to transform student services, research, and campus operations. However, many institutions lack clear visibility into where AI models run and what data they access, creating blind‑spot risks....
NTT Global Data Centers Plans to Double Capacity in AI Boom
NTT Global Data Centers, the world’s third‑largest provider outside China, announced a plan to double its capacity to 4 gigawatts within two years, targeting more than 5 gigawatts in five years. The expansion will be driven by 34 new data‑center projects aimed...
Dematic Redefines Warehouse Intelligence with Launch of Command Center
Dematic announced Command Center, a vendor‑agnostic, cloud‑based intelligence platform that unifies real‑time monitoring, AI‑driven decision support, and analytics for warehouse operations. Unveiled at LogiMAT 2026 and showcased at MODEX 2026, it aggregates data from automation, software, and manual processes into a single...
Agentic AI Shopping Bots Are Coming. Banks Need to Be Ready
Agentic AI shopping bots from firms like Google, Amazon and Visa are poised to execute purchases and payments on behalf of consumers, thrusting banks into a new risk landscape. Existing charge‑back rules under Reg E and Reg Z may not apply, leaving...
Google Is Testing Search Live in More Markets
Google announced that its Search Live visual AI feature, previously limited to the United States, is now being tested in additional markets beyond the US and India. The tool lets users point their phone camera at objects or scenes and...
UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content
Britain’s technology ministry announced it will consider mandatory labels on AI‑generated content to shield consumers from deepfakes and disinformation. Minister Liz Kendall said the policy aims to balance protecting creative industries with fostering AI innovation, and the government has not...
Gracenote: AI Will Influence Audience Discovery, Engagement with Content
Artificial intelligence is set to overhaul how viewers find and interact with entertainment, with large language models (LLMs) becoming the backbone of next‑generation search tools. Gracenote’s new report warns that LLMs alone can hallucinate, so it promotes "grounded" models that...
AI Software for Smart Glasses Wins £1m Prize for Technology to Help People with Dementia
CrossSense Ltd’s AI‑powered smart glasses, featuring the Wispy conversational assistant, have won the £1 million Longitude prize for dementia technology. The glasses combine a camera, microphone and speakers to deliver real‑time verbal cues and floating text that help wearers complete daily...
Multiply Closes $9.5M Funding
Multiply, an AI‑native media agency targeting B2B firms, emerged from stealth with a $9.5 million Series A round led by Mayfield. The funding includes contributions from Sorenson Capital, Instacart co‑founder Max Mullen, Google Gemini head Josh Woodward, and senior executives from...
New Real-World Evidence Supports the Use of AI in Lung Cancer Screening
A prospective trial of 911 asymptomatic patients undergoing low‑dose chest CT showed that AI‑assisted nodule detection modestly increased interpretation time by about 15 seconds but significantly boosted the identification of Lung‑RADS‑positive nodules. Radiologists using the AI tool reported roughly double...
New MiniMax M2.7 Proprietary AI Model Is 'Self-Evolving' And Can Perform 30-50% of Reinforcement Learning Research Workflow
MiniMax unveiled its proprietary M2.7 large language model, a reasoning‑only LLM that can autonomously manage 30‑50% of its own reinforcement‑learning development loop. The model earned a 66.6% medal rate on the MLE Bench Lite, tying Google Gemini 3.1 and approaching Anthropic...
Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Is Now Available for iPhones
Perplexity has launched its Comet AI browser as a free standalone iOS app, extending the AI‑powered web assistant that debuted on PCs last summer as a $200‑per‑month service. The iPhone version, which leverages Apple’s Liquid Glass UI and can be...
Is Cheap Energy the Key to China Gaining AI Supremacy?
China's AI sector is leveraging abundant cheap electricity to accelerate development across the AI stack. Companies like ByteDance, DeepSeek, and Huawei are rolling out new video‑generation tools, large‑language models, and AI chips, respectively. The low‑cost power reduces training expenses, giving...
How New Infrastructure, Like the Model Context Protocol, Is Reshaping Marketing Workflows
Amazon Ads has launched an open‑beta Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents a contextual layer over its advertising APIs. The protocol lets agents orchestrate multi‑step campaign creation, ad‑group configuration, and analytics queries with a single natural‑language prompt....
Lenovo Bolsters Hybrid AI Platform with Nvidia GPUs
Lenovo announced an expanded Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio powered by Nvidia GPUs, targeting end‑to‑end production AI inferencing. The new lineup spans laptops, desktops, ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers, and integrates Nvidia AI Enterprise, Dynamo, NIM and Vera Rubin technologies. Lenovo emphasizes...
Storage Vendors Orbit the Nvidia Sun at GTC
At GTC 2026 Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix and Seagate unveiled new integrations with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and AI software, tightening the bond between storage and accelerated compute. Hitachi iQ added support for Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs and AI blueprints; IBM demonstrated an 83%...
GSA, NIST Partner to Craft Evaluation Standards for AI Tools in Federal Operations
The General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a partnership to develop standardized evaluation methods for AI models used by federal agencies. Housed in NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the effort...
TEKEVER and EPE Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Advanced Autonomous Systems Capability in New Zealand
TEKEVER, a pan‑European AI‑centric defence tech firm, has entered a strategic partnership with New Zealand‑based EPE to deliver advanced autonomous systems to the NZ market. The deal combines TEKEVER’s AR5, AR3 EVO and ATLAS platforms with EPE’s local customer relationships and support...
What to Read This Week: Katrina Manson's Terrifying Project Maven
Katrina Manson’s new book, *Project Maven*, chronicles the U.S. military’s decade‑long push to embed artificial intelligence in drone surveillance, beginning with the 2017 initiative that automated video analysis. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, the work reveals a hidden ecosystem...
Introducing “Vibe Design” With Stitch
Google Labs unveiled the next evolution of Stitch, an AI‑native design canvas that turns natural‑language prompts into high‑fidelity user interfaces. The platform introduces "vibe design," voice‑driven interactions, and a new design agent that can manage multiple concepts in parallel. A...
The Success of Machine Mathematicians Shows Us How to Be OK with AI
Mathematicians have long wrestled with computer‑generated proofs, beginning with the 1976 four‑colour theorem solution that relied on 60,000 lines of code. Over decades the community built confidence by pairing algorithmic output with rigorous verification tools, paving the way for today’s...
Patreon CEO Calls AI Companies’ Fair Use Argument ‘Bogus,’ Says Creators Should Be Paid
Patreon CEO Jack Conte told SXSW that AI companies’ reliance on creator content under a "fair use" defense is "bogus" and should be compensated. He emphasized that while AI is an inevitable disruption, creators must receive direct payments for the...
