
The post introduces Coursebox, an AI‑powered course creator and LMS that lets companies convert documents, videos, and web content into complete, interactive training programs in minutes. It highlights how the platform’s AI tools—video generation, quiz creation, assessments, and 24/7 chatbot tutors—enable marketing, product, and executive teams to launch multilingual, branded courses quickly, cutting production costs and boosting brand authority. Real‑world benefits include faster time‑to‑market, reduced support load, and scalable global enablement without traditional instructional‑design bottlenecks. The author’s perspective is enthusiastic, positioning Coursebox as a game‑changing solution that transforms expertise into high‑authority courses with minimal effort.

Security firm Group‑IB uncovered a sophisticated, fully automated phishing framework that spoofs Aruba’s webmail login, using CAPTCHA filtering and Telegram bots to harvest credentials and payment data. The multi‑stage kit delivers phishing emails that mimic Aruba’s service‑expiry warnings, directing victims...

OpenAI began piloting a group‑chat feature for ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. The tool, available to Free, Plus and Team users on mobile and web, lets up to 20 participants collaborate, with GPT‑5.1 Auto handling responses, search, image...

New Revenera research finds that 31% of software makers now view piracy as a major source of revenue leakage, with unlicensed usage especially prevalent in China, Russia, India and rising in Germany, where engineering simulation and CAD tools are targeted....

Meta is preparing to launch third‑party chat integration for WhatsApp across Europe to meet the EU Digital Markets Act, with rollout slated for the coming months. The first interoperable services, BirdyChat and Haiket, will allow users on iOS and Android...

A 2025 global survey shows 72% of business leaders see rising cyber risks while the cybersecurity talent gap widens by 8% since 2024. Panasonic Connect’s Dominick Passanante argues that modern threats now target hardware and firmware, often originating in the...

We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more

Frost & Sullivan named Basis the 2025 Customer Value Leader for the global demand‑side platform (DSP) industry, citing its AI‑powered platform that unifies the entire media campaign lifecycle across channels such as CTV, DOOH, streaming audio, podcasts, social and search....

Shirofune, Japan’s leading digital advertising automation platform, announced a strategic partnership with Direct Agents, a U.S. growth and performance marketing agency, at Amazon Ads unBoxed, designating Direct Agents as a flagship partner for its AI‑driven retail media automation suite. The...

Catsy, a leading product information management (PIM) platform, launched an AI‑powered multi‑language translation engine that supports over 95 languages with built‑in cultural and compliance intelligence for industrial manufacturers. The solution claims 98% translation accuracy, automatic regional adaptation of terminology and...

Cresta unveiled four new capabilities at its inaugural Cresta Wave conference: Real‑Time Translation and multilingual AI that supports 30+ languages for both voice and chat; an Agent Operations Center that gives supervisors a unified view of all interactions and introduces...

Ironclad unveiled its next‑generation AI agents in an early‑access launch, adding an Intake Agent that auto‑extracts contract metadata, a Redlining Agent that proposes playbook‑aligned edits, and Conversational Search that answers natural‑language queries across its repository. The rollout follows the appointment...

SOCi reported that more than 150,000 Genius Agents™ have been deployed across 500+ multi‑location brands, completing over 10 million local‑marketing tasks and delivering roughly 750,000 hours of manual‑work savings. The autonomous agents handle reviews, social posts and search‑profile optimization, helping customers recapture...

GoDaddy announced the beta launch of Airo.ai, an agentic AI platform that turns conversational prompts into completed business tasks for small‑business owners. The system leverages GoDaddy’s 30‑year data set and an extensible agent framework to handle domain registration, website building,...

Workshop, the internal communications platform serving more than 600 organizations, unveiled four new AI capabilities—full‑message drafting, instant image generation, semantic media search, and plain‑language performance insights—available today without setup. The tools extend AI beyond content creation to streamline the entire...

London reporter Robert Hart rode one of Wayve's Ford Mustang Mach‑E robotaxis, marking one of the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous trips. Wayve, backed by more than $1 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft and SoftBank, is testing its end‑to‑end AI model that drives...

AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters are launching the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon with in‑person events in Tokyo (December 5‑7, 2025) and Paris (December 12‑14, 2025). Teams of up to four participants will complete two missions—setting up the LeRobot development environment and creating a...

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to require developers to disclose and obtain explicit user consent before sharing personal data with third‑party AI services. The amendment adds a specific clause mandating clear disclosure of data sharing with AI providers,...

The episode highlights the 2025 shift from raw AI model power to "context engineering," emphasizing how developers must manage persistent, high‑quality context for AI coding agents to avoid "agent drift" and costly rework. It introduces the Conductor methodology—a set of...
Baidu announced ERNIE 5.0, a proprietary omni‑modal foundation model that the company claims matches or outperforms OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑High and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks for document understanding, chart reasoning, vision‑language tasks, and language coding. The model is delivered through Baidu’s...
Anthropic unveiled new safeguards to make its Claude chatbot politically even‑handed, embedding system prompts that forbid unsolicited political opinions and using reinforcement learning to reward neutrality. The company also released an open‑source tool that scores Claude’s responses, reporting 95% even‑handedness...

Anthropic disclosed that Chinese state‑backed hackers leveraged its Claude large‑language model to automate roughly 30 cyber‑attacks on corporations and governments in September, with 80‑90% of the operations driven by AI. The attackers used Claude to generate commands, craft phishing content...

The post explains how to navigate the crowded SEO consulting market by recognizing inflated promises—like guaranteed rankings or instant results—and focusing on consultants who blend technical, creative, and strategic skills across areas such as AI, data analysis, and integrated marketing....
Upwork’s Human+Agent Productivity Index evaluated three leading AI agents—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4—on more than 300 real freelance jobs under $500. Working alone, the agents achieved modest completion rates, with the best‑performing model finishing only 64% of data‑science...

Over 43,000 spam packages were uploaded to npm over a nearly two‑year period, accounting for roughly 1% of the registry and representing a coordinated campaign dubbed “IndonesianFoods.” Endor Labs traced the effort to at least 11 user accounts that generated...

OpenAI unveiled an experimental weight‑sparse transformer, a tiny large‑language model built with sparse connections to make its internal logic observable. Though its performance is comparable only to early models like GPT‑1 and far below GPT‑5, the architecture forces features into...

Pakistan’s telecom regulator (PTA) has issued the first licences to five domestic VPN providers, creating a state‑approved pool of services that can be used without individual IP registration. The licensing scheme is presented as a cybersecurity and user‑convenience measure, but...

Apple unveiled the Mini Apps Partner Program, slashing the commission on in‑app purchases for web‑based mini apps to 15% and requiring use of its Advanced Commerce and Declared Age Rating APIs. The program extends the 2017 App Review Guidelines for...

Mozilla announced the development of an AI‑powered "AI Window" for Firefox, an opt‑in browsing mode that integrates an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will sit alongside private and classic windows, letting users select the underlying AI model and providing...
Even Realities unveiled its G2 Display Smart Glasses, a human‑centric wearable that forgoes outward‑facing cameras and external speakers, relying only on four microphones and a micro‑LED/gradient waveguide display that creates a layered 3D floating spatial view. The device bundles AI...

Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...

The SaasRise CEO Mastermind recap highlights practical strategies from ten sessions covering customer success vs. support alignment, AI‑driven lead generation, analytics optimization, and revenue expansion. Key takeaways include defining distinct success and support roles with growth‑linked incentives, leveraging AI tools...

Cybersecurity firm Check Point identified a campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirates” that uses paid Google and Bing ads to lure employees to counterfeit payroll, HR, credit‑union and trading‑platform login pages, harvesting credentials and multi‑factor authentication codes. The operation, which has targeted...

In this episode, Forrester’s CTO discusses how AI is reshaping research delivery, emphasizing that trust is the non‑negotiable foundation for any generative‑AI tool. He explains the development of Izola, a client‑facing AI that pulls exclusively from Forrester’s own IP and...

Google announced that its NotebookLM AI workspace will integrate Gemini’s Deep Research agent, giving all users access within a week. Users can choose a fast or deep research mode, with the deep option delivering in‑depth analysis, source citations, and the...

Google is adding a new "Deep Research" tool to its NotebookLM AI note‑taking platform, allowing the system to act as an autonomous researcher that creates a research plan, browses the web, and delivers a source‑grounded report that can be inserted...

Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, an embodied AI agent that leverages the Gemini 2.5 flash‑lite model to reason, understand language, and act in virtual environments. Compared with its predecessor, SIMA 2 doubled task‑completion rates, demonstrating complex, commonsense behavior in games like No Man’s Sky and...

LinkedIn is rolling out an AI‑powered people search feature that lets users enter natural‑language queries—such as “Find me investors in the healthcare sector with FDA experience”—to locate professionals more easily. The tool, initially available to premium U.S. members, expands on...
LinkedIn has rolled out an AI‑powered people search that lets users pose natural‑language queries—e.g., “Who is knowledgeable about curing cancer?”—to a graph of 1.3 billion members. The system combines a 7‑billion‑parameter policy model distilled into a 1.7 B teacher and a 220 M...

LinkedIn has introduced an AI‑powered people search that lets users describe the type of professional they need—e.g., “Northwestern alumni who work in entertainment marketing”—instead of relying on exact names, titles or companies. The system uses generative AI to surface and...
The post explains why email campaigns still land in junk folders in 2025, highlighting five dominant causes: inadequate permission and poor list hygiene, low‑trust or low‑value content, legal/compliance shortcuts, misconfigured authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and sending irrelevant messages that fail to engage...

Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is "really excited about AI" and envisions Disney+ letting subscribers both create and consume short‑form AI‑generated videos. He also hinted at adding game‑like features through Disney’s partnership with Epic Games and turning the...

The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...

Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, a new video‑game‑playing agent that leverages the Gemini large‑language model to interpret text, voice or drawing commands and act on pixel‑level inputs across a range of 3D worlds, including Goat Simulator 3. Trained on human gameplay from...

Marigold PR has introduced PRplus: AI Influence, a strategic communications service aimed at boosting B2B brands’ presence in AI‑generated search results through earned media coverage and AI discoverability reporting. The program, targeting North‑American firms in cannabis, technology and industrial sectors,...

Google is rolling out conversational shopping in AI Mode search, letting U.S. users ask complex product queries and receive AI‑generated suggestions, guides, and tables powered by its Shopping Graph. The experience will include sponsored shopping content, while the Gemini app’s shopping...

Google announced a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools ahead of the holiday season, including conversational search in AI Mode, enhanced Gemini app responses, agentic checkout that can auto‑purchase items via Google Pay, and a Duplex‑based feature that calls local stores...
Google is launching a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools for U.S. users ahead of the holiday season, adding conversational product search to Search’s AI Mode, an agentic "Let Google Call" feature that phones local stores on a shopper’s behalf, and...

The IAB Tech Lab released version 1.0 of the Agentic RTB Framework (ARTF) for public comment, a new specification that standardizes agentic interoperability among demand‑side platforms, supply‑side platforms and related services in shared data‑center environments. The framework claims to cut...

AI is reshaping enterprise data strategy by replacing siloed, system‑centric metrics with shared, customer‑defined context. The technology requires real‑time signals—clicks, language, intent—to generate meaningful insights, forcing organizations to integrate data around the customer journey rather than around internal platforms. This...