AVASOFT Joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
AVASOFT announced its membership in the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), joining an ecosystem of security vendors integrated with Microsoft’s security stack. The company’s solutions now tightly connect with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Purview, Sentinel, and Priva, enabling AI‑driven, defense‑in‑depth across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. AVASOFT aims to simplify security operations and align zero‑trust controls through Microsoft Security Copilot. The partnership underscores Microsoft’s strategy to expand its integrated security partner network.
New OpenAI Platform Teaches Newsrooms How to Use AI Tools
OpenAI has unveiled the "Academy for News Organizations," a new learning platform designed to help journalists and publishers adopt artificial‑intelligence tools. Developed with the American Journalism Project and the Lenfest Institute, the on‑demand program offers practical training, translation examples, and...
AstraZeneca Leads Big Pharma’s AI Clinical Trials Revolution with Real-World Patient Impact
AstraZeneca is scaling AI‑driven clinical‑trial tools beyond the lab, embedding them in Thailand’s national health system and screening over 660,000 patients. Its CREATE study showed a 54.1% positive predictive value for an AI chest‑X‑ray algorithm, prompting a three‑year, 415 million‑baht rollout...
OpenAI Launches App Submissions and Rolls Out Store in the New Year
OpenAI announced that developers can now submit ChatGPT applications for inclusion in a new directory accessed via the Tools menu. Submissions will undergo a review process, and approved apps can be launched directly in conversations using the “@” command. A...
TileDB Announces Integration with Snowflake to Launch TileDB Carrara
TileDB launched Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. The integration unifies complex scientific data—genomics, proteomics, imaging, and documents—across TileDB arrays and Snowflake tables within a single catalog. Automatic RSA key...
Deepfakes Are No Longer Just a Disinformation Problem. They Are Your Next Supply Chain Risk
In February 2025, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after attackers used AI‑generated video and audio to impersonate senior leaders and convince an employee to transfer funds. The breach highlighted a critical weakness: a lack of identity resilience, the ability to...
Indie Agency Glow Dips Its Toe In Software Sales With Creator Vetting Tool
Glow, an independent social and digital marketing agency, has introduced CreatorView, an AI‑driven platform that vets influencers for brand safety and alignment. The move reflects a broader trend of agencies expanding into software sales as AI shortens product development cycles...
Third of UK Citizens Have Used AI for Emotional Support, Research Reveals
A recent AI Security Institute report shows that one‑third of UK citizens have turned to artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction. Nearly one in ten users engage with chatbots weekly and 4 % do so daily, with general‑purpose...
OpenAI Reportedly Seeking up to $100 Billion in New Funding Round
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise as much as $100 billion, which could lift its valuation to roughly $750 billion—a 50% jump from its October share sale. The company reports an annualized revenue run rate of $19 billion and aims for $30 billion...
Fortinet and Arista Networks Announce Joint Secure AI Data Center Solution
Fortinet and Arista Networks unveiled a Secure AI Data Center solution, first deployed at Monolithic Power Systems, that merges Fortinet’s ASIC‑accelerated security with Arista’s ultra‑low‑latency networking. The reference architecture offers a modular, zero‑trust design, zero‑touch provisioning and hardware‑offloaded TLS that...
Penguin Ai and FTI Unite Expertise for Next-Gen Revenue Cycle Performance
Penguin AI, a healthcare AI specialist, announced a partnership with global advisory firm FTI Consulting to embed its AI platform into FTI’s revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation services. The integration aims to automate claims denial and appeals workflows, delivering faster...
Fake Minns, Altered Images and Psyop Theories: Bondi Attack Misinformation Shows AI’s Power to Confuse
Following the deadly Bondi beach attack, AI‑generated deepfakes and manipulated images flooded social platforms, especially X, with false narratives ranging from psy‑ops to misidentified perpetrators. Prominent examples included a deep‑faked video of NSW Premier Chris Minns, fabricated crisis‑actor photos, and...
Enterprise AI Coding Grows Teeth: GPT‑5.2‑Codex Weaves Security Into Large-Scale Software Refactors
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
A New World Model Startup Is Quietly Raising Big Money
The episode spotlights General Intuition, a stealth AI startup developing a universal agent and world model, now in late‑stage fundraising for several hundred million dollars at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. It recaps the company’s technology vision—building a general‑purpose AI that...
I Tried Talking to Google Maps with Gemini, and It Actually Understood What I Wanted
Google introduced Gemini 3, an upgraded AI model now embedded in Google Maps, enabling conversational, context‑aware navigation. The integration lets users ask natural‑language queries for coffee shops, scenic lunch spots, or traffic‑aware detours, and receive real‑time, multi‑criteria recommendations without leaving the...
Adobe Hit with Proposed Class-Action, Accused of Misusing Authors’ Work in AI Training
Adobe faces a proposed class‑action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books to train its SlimLM language model. The suit, filed by author Elizabeth Lyon, claims the model’s training data derives from the SlimPajama‑627B dataset, which copies the RedPajama and Books3...
Tokenization in Transformers V5: Simpler, Clearer, and More Modular
Transformers v5 introduces a major redesign of tokenizers, consolidating each model’s tokenizer into a single, transparent file and exposing the full architecture—normalizer, pre‑tokenizer, model, post‑processor, and decoder—as inspectable properties. The library now defaults to a Rust‑based backend for speed, while...
OpenAI Might Change App Design Forever
OpenAI has opened ChatGPT to third‑party developers, allowing apps to be invoked directly within conversational flows via @‑mentions or contextual suggestions. Early partners such as Adobe, Target, Canva and Figma are already offering image editing, shopping and design tools that...
Terence Tao Proposes "Artificial General Cleverness" As a More Honest Label for What AI Actually Does
Renowned mathematician Terence Tao has argued that the term “artificial general intelligence” overstates what current systems can achieve. He proposes calling the capability “artificial general cleverness” (AGC), describing it as the ability to solve complex problems using improvised, sometimes random,...
Now There's a Robot App Store because We All Want Our Bots to Kick Like Bruce Lee
Unitree has introduced the world’s first Robot App Store, initially offered in beta for its $13,500 G1 humanoid robot. The marketplace hosts a handful of pre‑built routines such as Funny Actions, Twist Dance, and a Bruce Lee martial‑arts sequence, and allows...
JP Morgan’s AI Adoption Hit 50% of Employees. The Secret? A Connectivity-First Architecture
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal LLM‑powered assistant suite two‑and‑a‑half years ago, and adoption surged to over 60% of its 250,000‑plus workforce without mandates. The rapid, organic uptake stemmed from a connectivity‑first architecture that embeds AI into existing data, CRM,...
Media Executives Share Their Predictions for 2026
Media executives anticipate 2026 will shift from frantic AI experimentation to disciplined sorting of what scales and what doesn’t. They warn that AI‑driven traffic volatility will push firms to prioritize stable revenue models and audience trust. Human‑first storytelling and differentiated,...
Amazon Appoints Longtime AWS Exec Peter DeSantis to Lead New AI Org
Amazon announced that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will head a new AI-focused organization. The unit will oversee Amazon’s AI models such as Nova, custom silicon development, and quantum computing initiatives. DeSantis brings 27 years at Amazon, including eight as...
Billionaires Want Data Centers Everywhere, Including Space
Tech billionaires are turning space into the next frontier for AI data centers, citing limitless solar power and reduced terrestrial footprint. Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to launch a cluster of up to 81 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites by 2027, each packed with...
Urban VPN Proxy Is the Latest Free VPN Spying on Users – Here's How to Stay Safe
Urban VPN Proxy, a free Chrome and Edge extension, was found to covertly capture every AI prompt users type and transmit the data to analytics servers for resale. Security firm Koi Security identified a hidden script added in the July 9 2025...
Semantic Shelf: The Dynamics Of Commerce Across Answer Engines
The episode explains how AI‑driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity are reshaping the top and middle of the commerce funnel by turning lengthy product research into rapid, guided Q&A and offering intuitive comparison tables, while their impact...
The $10 Billion Loop: Amazon Could Pay OpenAI so OpenAI Can Pay Amazon
Amazon is in advanced talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI, a move that could lift the startup’s valuation past $500 billion. The cash infusion is aimed at covering OpenAI’s soaring server expenses, including a $38 billion cloud agreement with Amazon...
Google's Next Experimental AI Project Is Called CC, And There's Already A Waitlist To Try It
Google announced its next experimental AI project, CC, which delivers a personalized "Your Day Ahead" email by accessing Gmail, Calendar, and Drive data. The service is currently in a U.S. and Canada waitlist, with priority given to AI Ultra and...
Google Launches Gemini 3 Flash, Makes It the Default Model in the Gemini App
Google unveiled Gemini 3 Flash, a faster and cheaper AI model that now serves as the default engine in the Gemini app and AI‑enhanced search. The model hits 33.7% on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark and 81.2% on the MMMU‑Pro multimodal reasoning...
AI Blindness Is Costing Your Business: How to Build Trust in the Data Powering AI
AI blindness – the failure to verify data fitness for AI – is costing businesses billions as inaccurate outputs drive poor decisions. Research shows only 42% of executives fully trust AI‑generated insights, highlighting a widening trust gap. Legacy data tools,...
Mozilla’s New CEO Says AI Is Coming to Firefox, but Will Remain a Choice
Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor‑DeMeo as its new chief executive, signaling a fresh strategic direction for the Firefox maker. The appointment arrives as AI‑driven browsers from Perplexity, Arc, OpenAI and Opera pressure traditional players. Enzor‑DeMeo pledged to embed AI features...
Fake Video Claiming ‘Coup in France’ Goes Viral – Not Even Macron Could Immediately Get It Removed
A fabricated AI‑generated video claiming a coup in France and the ousting of President Emmanuel Macron went viral, reaching 13 million views before Meta finally removed it. The clip, posted by a user named “ISLAM,” featured staged footage of police and...
How to Orchestrate a Fully Autonomous Multi-Agent Research and Writing Pipeline Using CrewAI and Gemini for Real-Time Intelligent Collaboration
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a two‑agent CrewAI pipeline that leverages the Gemini Flash model for real‑time research and writing. It walks through environment setup, secure Gemini authentication, and the definition of a researcher and a writer agent with...
Skana Robotics Helps Fleets of Underwater Robots Communicate with Each Other
Skana Robotics unveiled SeaSphere, an AI‑driven software that lets underwater autonomous vessels exchange data and coordinate missions without surfacing. The platform uses mathematically‑focused AI algorithms to enable real‑time decision‑making across large fleets. Skana, founded in 2024, is targeting European defense...
AI Agents Fail 63% of the Time on Complex Tasks. Patronus AI Says Its New 'Living' Training Worlds Can Fix...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....
Your Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Just Got a Major Audio Update — Especially for Spotify Users
Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is...
The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...
How to Use the Holidays to Stop Our ‘WhatsApp Aunties’ Falling for AI
Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...
Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Get Access to Your Files – but Bigger Worries Remain
Microsoft clarified that AI agents in Windows 11 will not automatically access personal folders. Users must approve each file‑access request or grant permanent permission through a dialog box. Permissions can be set per agent—Copilot, Researcher, Analyst—but apply to all personal directories...
AI Can Now Pass the CFA Exams: What Does that Mean for Finance Jobs?
Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...
OpenAI Reveals Major Hire to Lead Global Stargate Data Center Expansion
OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025,...
“A Band-Aid on a Giant Gash”: Trump’s Attacks on Science May Ruin His AI Moonshot
Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Apple engineers have customized an open‑source computer‑vision AI to spot color errors on ImageTek's bacon label prints, preventing a major client loss. The effort is part of Apple’s broader $600 billion U.S. manufacturing investment and its newly launched Apple Manufacturing Academy,...
Ghost Jobs, Robot Gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let Me Tell You About the Bleak New Age of Job Hunting |...
Eleanor Margolis describes a deteriorating UK job market where 40% of 2024 listings are "ghost jobs"—vacancies posted to project growth rather than fill roles. Applicants now face AI‑driven resume filters that prioritize keyword matches, often reproducing bias. Even when a CV...
"AI Is Too Big for the European Internet" - so It's Time for Companies to Work Together, Nokia Says
Nokia’s latest research warns that AI traffic is overwhelming Europe’s internet infrastructure, with 86% of European enterprises saying current networks can’t keep pace. The study also shows similar concerns in the United States, where 88% of telecoms and enterprises cite...
Roblox Brings AI Into the Studio to Speed up Game Creation
Roblox has embedded generative AI directly into its Studio development environment, giving creators on‑demand tools for asset generation, text‑to‑speech and real‑time translation. The new Assistant can turn simple prompts into fully functional objects, initially for vehicles and weapons, and connects...
5 Predictions for AI’s Growing Role in the Media in 2026
Fast Company columnist Pete Pachal outlines five predictions for AI’s influence on media in 2026. He emphasizes that copyright disputes will intensify as publishers block AI crawlers while AI firms cling to fair‑use defenses. Google retains a competitive edge because...
This Guy’s Obscure PhD Project Is the only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Image Chaos
Dr. Eric Wengrowski, a Rutgers PhD graduate, turned his decade‑long steganography research into Steg AI, a startup that embeds invisible watermarks in images to track their movement online. The technology has gained unprecedented attention as AI‑generated imagery proliferates, prompting the...
AI Is Moving to the Edge – and Network Security Needs to Catch Up
Small and mid‑size businesses are rapidly deploying AI at the edge, moving workloads from centralized data centers to retail stores, clinics, and remote sites. This shift delivers real‑time insights, resilience, and faster deployment but strains network bandwidth and security controls....