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Microsoft and SAP Sign Deal to Keep EU Cloud Running, Even in "Times of Crisis"
NewsNov 20, 2025

Microsoft and SAP Sign Deal to Keep EU Cloud Running, Even in "Times of Crisis"

Microsoft, SAP‑owned Delos Cloud and French sovereign‑cloud provider Bleu have signed a memorandum of understanding and a mutual‑assistance pact to ensure continuity of European cloud services in crisis scenarios. The agreement gives Delos legal rights to access Microsoft’s cloud code...

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Nokia Is Splitting Off Its AI Business, Weeks After $1bn Nvidia Investment
NewsNov 20, 2025

Nokia Is Splitting Off Its AI Business, Weeks After $1bn Nvidia Investment

Nokia announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2026, it will split into two primary segments—Network Infrastructure and Mobile Infrastructure—while spinning off its AI‑focused mobile business to drive AI‑first networks such as 6G. The company targets a 6‑8% net‑sales CAGR through 2028...

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How Data Centers Can Balance Growth with Environmental Responsibility
NewsNov 20, 2025

How Data Centers Can Balance Growth with Environmental Responsibility

Data‑center investment in India is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2027, driving a surge in digital services but also raising sustainability concerns. Ashish Arora, CEO of Nxtra by Airtel, argues that sustainability must be embedded in every stage of data‑center...

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Grok 4.1 Is Trying Too Hard to Impress – and ChatGPT 5.1 Makes It Look Easy
NewsNov 20, 2025

Grok 4.1 Is Trying Too Hard to Impress – and ChatGPT 5.1 Makes It Look Easy

xAI’s Grok 4.1 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.1 were pitted against each other in a three‑part informal test covering emotional intelligence, factual reliability, and personality consistency. Grok 4.1 delivered a more flamboyant, slang‑laden response to an emotional scenario and to a prompt about rainy...

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How to Move From ChatGPT to Claude (without Starting From Scratch)
NewsNov 20, 2025

How to Move From ChatGPT to Claude (without Starting From Scratch)

TechRadar AI Week 2025 outlines a straightforward method for users to transition from ChatGPT to Anthropic's Claude without losing personalized context. Claude’s paid Pro and Max plans now include a Memory feature that can store user‑specific information, allowing a simple...

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AMD's FSR Redstone for Supercharged Gaming Debuts on December 10 – but It's RX 9000 only, Leaving Older Radeon GPUs...
NewsNov 20, 2025

AMD's FSR Redstone for Supercharged Gaming Debuts on December 10 – but It's RX 9000 only, Leaving Older Radeon GPUs...

AMD announced that its next‑generation upscaling suite, FSR Redstone, will launch on December 10 and will be supported exclusively on the upcoming Radeon RX 9000 (RDNA 4) GPUs. The AI‑driven features—Ray Regeneration, Radiance Caching, and Frame Generation—are designed to boost ray‑traced...

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Drone Maker Lets Robot Fly Drone to Prove It's Easy to Use and Scare the Heck Out of Us
NewsNov 19, 2025

Drone Maker Lets Robot Fly Drone to Prove It's Easy to Use and Scare the Heck Out of Us

Drone maker Antigravity showcased its new 360-degree A1 drone being piloted by Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot, demonstrating the drone’s intuitive Motion Controller and 8K immersive video capability. The $21,000 G1 robot, equipped with LiDAR and Intel RealSense depth sensors, appears...

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Amazon Is Trialing Using AI to Generate Recaps for some of Your Favorite Prime Video TV Shows
NewsNov 19, 2025

Amazon Is Trialing Using AI to Generate Recaps for some of Your Favorite Prime Video TV Shows

Amazon Prime Video is beta‑testing a new AI‑driven “Video Recap” feature for select U.S. original series, including *Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan*, *Fallout*, *The Rig*, *Bosch* and *Upload*. The tool uses Amazon Bedrock models to analyze episodes, extract key scenes, and stitch them together...

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Google Patches Worrying Chrome Zero-Day Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild - Here's How to Stay Safe
NewsNov 19, 2025

Google Patches Worrying Chrome Zero-Day Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild - Here's How to Stay Safe

Google has released a patch for a critical zero‑day vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑13223) in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine of Chrome, rated 8.8/10 by the NVD. The type‑confusion flaw could allow remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution via a crafted...

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Ray Clusters Hijacked and Turned Into Crypto Miners by Shadowy New Botnet
NewsNov 19, 2025

Ray Clusters Hijacked and Turned Into Crypto Miners by Shadowy New Botnet

Cybersecurity firm Oligo has identified a new wave of attacks exploiting a critical flaw in Ray 2.6.3 and 2.8.0 that allows unauthenticated code execution via the job‑submission API. Threat actors, dubbed IronErn440, have been using AI‑generated payloads to infiltrate more...

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How to Cancel Surfshark and Get a Refund
NewsNov 19, 2025

How to Cancel Surfshark and Get a Refund

Surfshark, ranked #2 among VPNs for its streaming speed and built‑in security tools, allows users to cancel subscriptions and obtain refunds through a simple online process. To stop auto‑renewal, customers log into their account, navigate to the Subscription > Payments...

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Cloud and AI Usage Is Still a Concern for Businesses - and the Worries Are only Set to Rise
NewsNov 19, 2025

Cloud and AI Usage Is Still a Concern for Businesses - and the Worries Are only Set to Rise

AWS’s latest research shows that more than nine in ten companies worldwide plan to raise overall IT spending (93%), cloud spending (97%) and cybersecurity budgets (90%). While 56% of respondents view public cloud as more secure and 81% believe it...

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CIOs Are Being Lumped with AI Responsibilities - and Many of Them Aren't Happy with That
NewsNov 19, 2025

CIOs Are Being Lumped with AI Responsibilities - and Many of Them Aren't Happy with That

Chief Information Officers are increasingly being tasked with AI responsibilities as enterprises move from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments, according to new Salesforce research. While three‑quarters of CIOs report greater confidence and 97% say they now understand AI better, collaboration...

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I Tested Caira, the First Nano Banana AI Camera – Now I’m Cancelling My Lightroom Subscription
NewsNov 19, 2025

I Tested Caira, the First Nano Banana AI Camera – Now I’m Cancelling My Lightroom Subscription

Camera Intelligence’s Caira, a Kickstarter‑backed Nano Banana AI camera, attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and combines a Micro Four Thirds 11‑MP Sony sensor with Qualcomm Snapdragon and Google Edge TPU processors. It offers on‑device generative editing, voice control and...

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Google Translate Is Getting a Big Upgrade that Could Make It the Killer Smart Glasses App
NewsNov 19, 2025

Google Translate Is Getting a Big Upgrade that Could Make It the Killer Smart Glasses App

Google is embedding support for XR smart glasses into the Android version of Google Translate, as revealed by hidden code referencing "Glasses" as a playback device. The upcoming feature will extend the Live Translation service, allowing spoken translations to be...

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Is Privacy Really Dead? How Generations Are Rewriting Data Protection
NewsNov 19, 2025

Is Privacy Really Dead? How Generations Are Rewriting Data Protection

The article argues that privacy is not dead but evolving, driven by digital‑native generations demanding transparency, control, and built‑in protection. Recent surveys from Pew, Cisco and Statista show a growing confidence‑gap: while most consumers feel capable of managing their data,...

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AI Voice Fraud Is Exploiting Contact Centers
NewsNov 19, 2025

AI Voice Fraud Is Exploiting Contact Centers

AI-generated voice cloning has moved from experimental demos to full production, with roughly one in three U.S. consumers reporting synthetic‑voice fraud in Q4 2024 and many incurring losses. Fraudsters now combine breached personal data with low‑cost text‑to‑speech and automated dialing to...

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What Exactly Am I Paying For? Redefining Value in the Age of AI
NewsNov 19, 2025

What Exactly Am I Paying For? Redefining Value in the Age of AI

Consultants are confronting client demands for clearer, outcome‑based value as AI reshapes professional‑services delivery. Smaller firms are already adopting outcome‑based pricing, shifting risk onto providers who must prove AI‑driven ROI through metrics such as productivity gains, cost reductions or new...

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I Tested Gemini 3, ChatGPT 5.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 – and Gemini Crushed It in a Real Coding Task
NewsNov 18, 2025

I Tested Gemini 3, ChatGPT 5.1, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 – and Gemini Crushed It in a Real Coding Task

Google unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, and the author put it to the test by prompting it to build a web‑based Thumb Wars game. Gemini generated functional HTML/CSS/JS code in seconds, iteratively adding features such as customizable masks, 3‑D ring perspective,...

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Over 60 Organizations Call on Governments Worldwide to Protect Encryption
NewsNov 18, 2025

Over 60 Organizations Call on Governments Worldwide to Protect Encryption

A coalition of 61 tech and privacy groups, including the VPN Trust Initiative, issued a global statement urging governments to safeguard strong encryption, warning that backdoors and key‑escrow systems would weaken security and damage the digital economy. The appeal comes...

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Looking for Powerful Web Hosting Software? Cloudways Could Be Your Answer This Black Friday
NewsNov 18, 2025

Looking for Powerful Web Hosting Software? Cloudways Could Be Your Answer This Black Friday

Cloudways is rolling out a Black Friday promotion that slashes prices by roughly 50% for three months across its four hosting tiers, with plans now ranging from $7 to $49 per month. The deal also includes 50 free migrations and...

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Your Favorite Microsoft 365 Apps Are Getting a Load More Copilot AI Agents - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint All Get...
NewsNov 18, 2025

Your Favorite Microsoft 365 Apps Are Getting a Load More Copilot AI Agents - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint All Get...

Microsoft unveiled a suite of new Copilot AI agents for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook at Ignite 2025, enabling users to generate content, charts, summaries, and presentations through natural‑language prompts. The agents engage in follow‑up questions to refine output and...

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Organizations Must Own the Right to Their Cloud Compute, or Innovation Will Suffer
NewsNov 18, 2025

Organizations Must Own the Right to Their Cloud Compute, or Innovation Will Suffer

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has ruled that the public‑cloud market is no longer competitive, highlighting that three hyperscalers dominate 70% of Europe’s market and create costly lock‑in that prevents most firms from switching providers. Less than 1%...

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Vibe Coding to Vibe Hacking: Securing Software in the AI Era
NewsNov 18, 2025

Vibe Coding to Vibe Hacking: Securing Software in the AI Era

Matt Moore, co‑founder and CTO of Chainguard, warns that AI‑assisted "vibe coding"—where developers generate code via generative AI—could account for 40% of new business software within three years, dramatically accelerating development and boilerplate creation. While the speed and refactoring benefits...

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The Sovereignty Shift: How UK and Irish SMEs Can Regain Control of Their Data
NewsNov 18, 2025

The Sovereignty Shift: How UK and Irish SMEs Can Regain Control of Their Data

Amid rising data concerns, UK and Irish SMEs are urged to reclaim control through digital sovereignty.

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5 Black Friday Security Software Deals You Can't Afford to Miss: Quality Savings on All Your Security Essentials
NewsNov 18, 2025

5 Black Friday Security Software Deals You Can't Afford to Miss: Quality Savings on All Your Security Essentials

TechRadar’s security editor Benedict Collins has compiled five Black Friday offers that slash the price of essential cyber‑protection tools by at least 50%. The deals include Bitdefender Antivirus Plus (57% off, $30 for the first year), NordPass password manager (58%...

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Windscribe's Entire VPN Network Gets a Next-Gen Speed and Stability Boost
NewsNov 18, 2025

Windscribe's Entire VPN Network Gets a Next-Gen Speed and Stability Boost

Windscribe has completed a full migration to its next‑generation server stack, FreshScribe, replacing the legacy Boringtun user‑space WireGuard implementation with a kernel‑space version across its entire global VPN network. The upgrade eliminates WireGuard jitter, boosts throughput and stability, and benefits...

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ChatGPT Is Down - Everything We Know About the Latest AI Outage Impacting OpenAI
NewsNov 18, 2025

ChatGPT Is Down - Everything We Know About the Latest AI Outage Impacting OpenAI

OpenAI products including ChatGPT and Sora are experiencing major outages.

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ChatGPT Free vs Paid: Will Upgrading Actually Improve Your Experience?
NewsNov 18, 2025

ChatGPT Free vs Paid: Will Upgrading Actually Improve Your Experience?

You can use ChatGPT for free, but depending on how much you want to use it, it could be time to upgrade to a paid-for version.

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Hire with Confidence- Save $20 on Your First Background Check with Checkr
NewsNov 18, 2025

Hire with Confidence- Save $20 on Your First Background Check with Checkr

This Black Friday, we are bringing you an exclusive deal from Checkr so you can speed up your hiring process.

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Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Work as Testing Is About to Start – and I'll Admit, I'm...
NewsNov 18, 2025

Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Work as Testing Is About to Start – and I'll Admit, I'm...

Wondering how Windows 11's AI agents will work? Microsoft explains how 'agent workspaces' are lightweight and secure.

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Need to Get some Work Done? There's No Need Create a Fake Meeting to Get some Time to Yourself, Thanks...
NewsNov 18, 2025

Need to Get some Work Done? There's No Need Create a Fake Meeting to Get some Time to Yourself, Thanks...

Google Calendar might actually help you be more productive at last.

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Lock in 25% Savings on Webflow’s Annual Site and Workspace Plans
NewsNov 18, 2025

Lock in 25% Savings on Webflow’s Annual Site and Workspace Plans

Webflow is running a Black Friday promotion from Nov 17 to Dec 2 that gives customers 12 months of service on its Site or Workspace annual plans for the price of nine months – a 25% discount equivalent to three months free. The offer...

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Top 10 AI Chatbot Do's and Don’ts to Help You Get the Most Out of ChatGPT, Gemini, and More
NewsNov 18, 2025

Top 10 AI Chatbot Do's and Don’ts to Help You Get the Most Out of ChatGPT, Gemini, and More

The article outlines ten practical do’s and don’ts for using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, emphasizing safe and productive applications. It recommends using chatbots for brainstorming, proofreading, tutoring, code generation, and entertainment while warning against cheating, accepting...

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How ChatGPT Works: A Guide to Its Interface on Mobile and Web
NewsNov 17, 2025

How ChatGPT Works: A Guide to Its Interface on Mobile and Web

The guide walks users through the ChatGPT interface on both mobile and web, detailing how to access account settings, upgrade to Plus, and connect services like Gmail. It explains where to find chat history, how to enable temporary chats, and...

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Samsung's "The Wall" Is the Biggest LED Display You Can Get for Your Office or Workplace - and It's Just...
NewsNov 17, 2025

Samsung's "The Wall" Is the Biggest LED Display You Can Get for Your Office or Workplace - and It's Just...

Samsung has launched an upgraded version of its The Wall MPF large‑format LED display for enterprise use, offering up to 1,000 nits of brightness, Black Seal Technology+ for higher contrast, and AI‑driven NQM Gen2 processing that upscales lower‑resolution content toward 8K. The...

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Microsoft Unveils Its First "AI Superfactory" - Here's What the Future of Computing Will Really Look Like
NewsNov 17, 2025

Microsoft Unveils Its First "AI Superfactory" - Here's What the Future of Computing Will Really Look Like

Microsoft unveiled its first AI superfactory, linking large AI datacenters in Wisconsin and Atlanta via a dedicated fiber network that acts as a virtual supercomputer for massive model training. The facilities pack GPUs densely across two floors, employ Nvidia Blackwell...

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Neo Robot Sounds Like the Answer to Our Home Chore prayers...but Also a Potential Privacy Nightmare
NewsNov 17, 2025

Neo Robot Sounds Like the Answer to Our Home Chore prayers...but Also a Potential Privacy Nightmare

TechRadar AI Week reports that 1X’s Neo Beta, a $20,000 humanoid home robot capable of remote tele‑operation for AI training, is entering limited consumer trials. While the robot promises to automate chores, its ability to stream real‑time video and collect...

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How ChatGPT Can Help You Look After Your Wellbeing
NewsNov 17, 2025

How ChatGPT Can Help You Look After Your Wellbeing

TechRadar’s AI Week 2025 piece outlines how ChatGPT is being used as a low‑pressure companion for mental‑wellness, from prompting daily journaling and reminding users of short meditation or breathing exercises to acting as a sounding board between therapy sessions. The...

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Big Data, Big Challenge - How Life Sciences Turn Information Overload Into Insight
NewsNov 17, 2025

Big Data, Big Challenge - How Life Sciences Turn Information Overload Into Insight

Chief Growth Officer Andrew Wyatt of Sapio Sciences outlines how big data is reshaping life‑science research, from early disease‑trend detection and precision‑medicine design to more evidence‑based decision‑making. He highlights that traditional on‑premise infrastructure can’t keep pace with the volume, velocity...

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7 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Plan the Perfect Vacation
NewsNov 17, 2025

7 Ways ChatGPT Can Help You Plan the Perfect Vacation

TechRadar’s AI Week 2025 piece outlines seven ways ChatGPT can streamline vacation planning, from personalized destination suggestions and flight price filtering to hotel comparisons, custom city itineraries, real‑time translation, and automated travel admin like packing lists and visa briefings. The...

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Microsoft Exec Responds to Windows 11 AI Controversy, but Glosses over a Key Reason for All the Hate
NewsNov 17, 2025

Microsoft Exec Responds to Windows 11 AI Controversy, but Glosses over a Key Reason for All the Hate

Microsoft Windows VP Pavan Davuluri responded on X to backlash over the company’s AI push in Windows 11, acknowledging the need to improve basic usability, reliability and performance. He said the team is listening to developer feedback and will address issues...

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An "AI Exposure Gap" Could Be the Most Worrying Security Issue Your Business Isn't Aware Of
NewsNov 17, 2025

An "AI Exposure Gap" Could Be the Most Worrying Security Issue Your Business Isn't Aware Of

Tenable’s latest research finds that 89% of organizations are running or piloting AI workloads, yet only 22% fully classify and encrypt AI data, leaving a large “AI exposure gap.” One‑third of AI adopters (34%) have already suffered an AI‑related breach,...

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Welcome to TechRadar's AI Week
NewsNov 17, 2025

Welcome to TechRadar's AI Week

TechRadar announced its AI Week 2025, a seven‑day series of beginner‑focused guides and feature stories on artificial‑intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The initiative promises step‑by‑step walkthroughs for prompt engineering, practical use‑cases at work and home, and tips...

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Can Top AI Tools Be Bullied Into Malicious Work? ChatGPT, Gemini, and More Are Put to the Test, and the...
NewsNov 16, 2025

Can Top AI Tools Be Bullied Into Malicious Work? ChatGPT, Gemini, and More Are Put to the Test, and the...

Researchers at Cybernews conducted one‑minute adversarial tests on leading AI chatbots—including ChatGPT‑5, ChatGPT‑4o, Gemini Pro 2.5, Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet—across categories such as hate speech, self‑harm, crime and drug‑related content. While many models refused outright, several offered partial or full...

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Drowning in Emails? Meet the App That's Cleaned over a Billion
NewsNov 16, 2025

Drowning in Emails? Meet the App That's Cleaned over a Billion

Trimbox, an email‑management app, has been downloaded 515,687 times and claims to have cleaned over 1.7 billion emails by letting users block mailing lists and bulk‑delete messages with a single click. The tool integrates with Gmail and other accounts, offering a...

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Nvidia's New AI App Could Be the Productivity Tool You've Always Needed - "Hyperlink" Agent Brings Private AI-Powered Search for...
NewsNov 16, 2025

Nvidia's New AI App Could Be the Productivity Tool You've Always Needed - "Hyperlink" Agent Brings Private AI-Powered Search for...

Nvidia’s new Hyperlink agent, developed by Nexa.ai, runs entirely on local RTX hardware, delivering AI‑powered search of personal files while keeping data on‑device. Benchmarked on an RTX 5090, it indexes up to three times faster and offers twice the large‑language‑model inference...

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Why AI Pilots Fail - and How Manufacturers Can Break the Cycle
NewsNov 16, 2025

Why AI Pilots Fail - and How Manufacturers Can Break the Cycle

AI pilots in manufacturing stall—up to 90% fail—largely due to fragmented, low‑quality data and entrenched IT‑OT silos rather than algorithmic flaws. Experts argue that scaling AI requires a unified, trustworthy data infrastructure that can ingest and analyze industrial data at...

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Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Risk
NewsNov 16, 2025

Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Risk

Shadow AI, the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by employees, is spreading across enterprises with little visibility. It creates data leakage, regulatory violations, geopolitical exposure, and introduces new attack vectors such as agentic AI and unreviewed code. The lack...

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