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OpenAI and Google have introduced daily usage caps on their AI generation tools after a surge in demand. OpenAI limits free Sora video generation to six videos per day, while paid ChatGPT Plus and Pro users remain unrestricted. Google restricts free Nano Banana Pro image creation to two images daily, though the older Nano Banana still allows 100 images. The limits highlight the compute and energy pressures of large‑scale AI content production.
Enterprises pour billions into AI agents, yet real‑world deployments falter because agents lack true understanding of siloed business data. The article proposes an ontology‑based single source of truth—defining concepts, hierarchies, and relationships—to bridge this gap, enabling agents to interpret context,...
Listening has emerged as the primary engine of modern sales, shifting the focus from persuasive pitches to deep buyer insight. The article introduces the LACE Framework—Listen, Acknowledge, Clarify, Explore—as a repeatable method that turns listening into a measurable discipline. By...
The FBI reports that cybercriminals have stolen over $262 million through account‑takeover scams in 2025, based on more than 5,100 complaints. Attackers use AI‑enhanced phishing, holiday‑themed domains, and mobile scams to hijack financial, payroll, and health‑savings accounts. Victims often lose money...
Meta is in advanced talks to rent Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in 2026 and move to direct purchases in 2027, marking a shift from its traditional mix of CPUs and GPUs. The potential multibillion‑dollar agreement has lifted Alphabet’s...
IBM announced that its Storage Scale System 6000 can now deliver up to 47 petabytes of storage in a single rack, a three‑fold increase over the previous 2.2 PB limit. The expansion relies on new All‑Flash Expansion Enclosures that pack 26 × 122 TB QLC SSDs...
Deezer’s recent study, conducted with Ipsos, found that 97 percent of listeners could not reliably tell AI‑generated tracks from human‑made songs. A secondary analysis showed that when responses weren’t bundled, participants correctly identified AI music only 43 percent of the time. The...
Recent incidents with Perplexity and ChatGPT‑5 reveal large language models echoing sexist assumptions, even fabricating bias when prompted. Developers like "Cookie" and Sarah Potts documented AI responses that dismissed women’s expertise and defaulted to male‑coded language. Researchers attribute these patterns to...
TechRadar’s 2025 robot‑vacuum guide ranks the Roborock Qrevo Curv as the top model, highlighting its 18,500 Pa suction, dual‑spinning mop, and self‑emptying dock. The guide evaluated 94 units, including 17 new releases, to compare performance, price, and features across the market....
The Project Management Institute’s latest report shows that organizations embedding AI across the enterprise achieve a 31% success rate on energy‑efficiency projects, far outpacing the 8% rate of firms still experimenting. Success hinges on three pillars: data readiness, leadership preparedness,...
Lenovo’s AI and security chief emphasizes a company‑wide security culture, noting that data protection is a shared responsibility rather than a siloed function. He cites strong backing from CEO Yuanqing Yang and highlights the challenges posed by hybrid work and...
More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter urging the company to slow its aggressive AI rollout. The staff cite climate damage, job security threats, and heightened surveillance as primary concerns. They highlight Amazon's $150 billion investment in new...
TechRadar’s weekly roundup spotlights seven diverse tech stories, from OpenAI’s upgraded ChatGPT voice mode to Kodak’s $99 Snapic A1 35mm film camera. Garmin teased a potential screenless wearable, while Insta360 announced a Dec 4 launch for its Antigravity A1 360° drone....
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “very aggressive” infrastructure bet, targeting the construction of the world’s largest data‑center network to power next‑generation AI models. The plan hinges on massive capital investment and broad partnerships with firms such as AMD, Oracle...
Cybersecurity burnout is reaching crisis levels, with 76% of professionals reporting fatigue in the past year and 69% seeing it worsen between 2023 and 2024. The chronic stress threatens productivity, job satisfaction, and can lead to costly security incidents. Experts...
The National Foundation for Educational Research warns that AI and automation could eliminate about three million jobs over the next decade, with the speed of change now three times faster than earlier forecasts. High‑risk occupations include administrative, secretarial, customer‑service and...
eBay sellers face mounting fulfillment headaches as manual Amazon‑to‑eBay dropshipping leads to late tracking, account suspensions, and limited scalability. Easync’s Fulfillment by Easync (FBE) automates the entire process by routing orders through managed Amazon accounts, removing personal‑account risk and purchase...
Lodgify introduces a purpose‑built website builder that lets short‑term rental hosts launch direct‑booking sites without coding. The platform bundles a built‑in reservation engine, channel manager syncing with Airbnb and Vrbo, and integrated payment processing. It claims direct bookings generate higher...
Researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new attack vector called “HashJack,” which embeds malicious instructions in URL fragments after a hashtag. AI‑assisted browsers process these hidden fragments locally, allowing attackers to steer the assistant without the server ever seeing...
Anthropic announced a new Claude Agent SDK that tackles the long‑running agent memory problem by splitting tasks between an initializer agent and a coding agent. The initializer sets up the environment and logs progress, while the coding agent makes incremental...
During Black Friday, the Oura Ring 4 is available for $249, its lowest price ever, representing a $100 discount off the usual $349 retail price. Gold and rose gold variants are also reduced, now selling for $350 instead of $500....
The comparison pits Cloudways against InMotion Hosting for WordPress sites, highlighting that Cloudways starts at $14 per month while InMotion begins at $6. Cloudways bundles a managed‑service layer with a polished dashboard, AI‑driven Copilot monitoring, and automated backups, whereas InMotion...
2025 marks a turning point for generative AI as the ecosystem diversifies beyond a handful of cloud‑only giants. OpenAI launched GPT‑5, GPT‑5.1, Atlas, Sora 2 and open‑weight models, while enterprises report over‑50% ticket‑resolution gains using the new models. China’s open‑source wave,...
A new BearingPoint survey finds half of global executives say their workforce is already 10‑19% over capacity, and 45% anticipate a 30‑50% surplus within three years. The study highlights back‑office, customer service, and entry‑level finance and HR roles as most...
AI is reshaping go‑to‑market (GTM) playbooks, allowing startups to generate more messaging and leads with fewer resources. Executives at Google Cloud and OpenAI stress that AI augments, not replaces, core marketing fundamentals such as customer insight and creative strategy. The...
Washington is edging toward its first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, sparking a clash between federal ambitions and a wave of state legislation. Dozens of states have already passed more than 100 AI‑related laws targeting deepfakes, transparency, and safety, while industry...
Microsoft Teams recently enabled a guest chat feature that lets any user start a conversation with an external email address, even if the recipient does not use Teams. The feature is turned on by default for many small‑business licenses and...
Neuroscientists at Princeton discovered that the prefrontal cortex reuses discrete neural patterns—dubbed “cognitive Legos”—across different tasks, enabling flexible learning. Experiments with rhesus macaques performing three visual categorization tasks revealed recurring activity blocks for shared components like color discrimination or eye‑movement...
OpenAI announced that free users of its Sora video generator are now limited to six generations per day, citing GPU overload. Google responded similarly, cutting the free image generation limit for its newly launched Nano Banana Pro to two images...
Omri Kohl, CEO of Pyramid Analytics, warns that AI alone won’t solve enterprise data challenges; a unified, governed semantic layer is required to merge BI and AI. He champions "decision intelligence"—a user‑centric approach that starts with the decision and works...
ElasticScale, a Dutch AWS‑infrastructure specialist for SaaS firms, launched in November 2024 and quickly adopted events as its primary go‑to‑market engine. The company discovered that 95% of its target CEOs and CTOs are unaware their AWS spend is four times higher...
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters gang has expanded its phishing campaign to target Zendesk users, registering more than 40 typosquatted domains that mimic legitimate Zendesk URLs. Researchers at ReliaQuest identified these domains, all registered through NiceNic and protected by Cloudflare‑masked nameservers....
Honor introduced the Choice Bee AI Projector Air, a compact 1080p projector that supports stylus input and gesture controls, effectively turning any wall into an interactive whiteboard. Priced at roughly CNY 599 (about $85), it offers 280 lumens, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0...
Perplexity AI has added a virtual‑try‑on feature to its shopping suite, rolling it out to all Pro and Max subscribers. Users upload a selfie or full‑body photo, and the system generates a digital avatar that can model individual clothing items...
Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, an open‑weight LLM that generates and self‑verifies mathematical theorems. Built on DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Exp, the model includes a verifier and theorem generator and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. In benchmark tests it earned...
Mint’s All About AI Tech4Good awards spotlight AI projects that advance human welfare, reduce inequality, and broaden access to essential services across Asia. The piece outlines the three core Tech4Good principles—expanding capability, lowering barriers, and serving overlooked communities—and showcases real‑world...
Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...
Researchers at Oligo Security disclosed five critical vulnerabilities (CVE‑2025‑12969 to CVE‑2025‑12978) in the open‑source log processor Fluent Bit. The flaws permit log manipulation, authentication bypass, and remote code execution across major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Fluent Bit’s...
OpenAI disclosed that a data breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel leaked limited developer information, including names, email addresses, and coarse location data. The breach did not affect ChatGPT users, API keys, passwords, or payment details, and OpenAI terminated Mixpanel’s...
Opera Neon introduced a one‑minute Deep Research mode powered by its Opera Deep Research Agent (ODRA), delivering citation‑backed mini‑reports in roughly 60 seconds. The update also adds a model selector that lets users toggle between AI engines such as Gemini 3 Pro...
Ionos is slashing its HiDrive Business plan to $1 per month for the first year, a 90% Black Friday discount, then rising to $7 per month—a 30% reduction from the regular rate. The plan provides 1 TB of storage, support for...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping marketing by turning massive data sets into real‑time, individualized experiences. Recommendation engines, predictive models, and dynamic content delivery enable brands to personalize at a scale humans cannot achieve. Case studies from Spotify and Nike show that...
Google’s support page reveals that the current Google Assistant will be retired from Android Auto as early as March 2026, with the Gemini AI model taking its place. The transition is positioned as a move toward more natural, conversational interactions that...
An MIT and Oak Ridge study using the Iceberg Index finds that 11.7% of the U.S. labor force—about 151 million workers—could already be replaced by artificial intelligence, translating into roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages at risk. The analysis covers 923 occupations...
OpenAI’s Shopping Research and Perplexity’s new shopping assistant launched this week, offering AI‑driven price comparison, review analysis, and product recommendation. In response, Amazon updated its robots.txt to block ChatGPT from scraping its site, cutting off access to Amazon product pages,...
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu rejected Sundar Pichai’s AI‑bubble warnings, pledging aggressive investment in artificial‑intelligence despite market concerns. He highlighted that demand outstrips supply, noting the Qwen app reached 10 million downloads in a week and that AI‑related cloud services grew 34%....
Amazon Web Services announced Accelerated Recovery for Route 53, a feature that guarantees a 60‑minute recovery time objective for DNS changes in the US East (N. Virginia) region. The enhancement lets customers modify public hosted zones and provision infrastructure during regional...
China’s National Development and Reform Commission warned on Thursday that the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector may be forming a bubble. The agency highlighted that more than 150 firms, many startups or cross‑industry entrants, are pouring capital into humanoid...
