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Monday October 27, 2025. 08:00 AM
We grumble about political polarization, but there’s even less agreement about artificial intelligence (AI). Zoomers believe AI will bring big benefits to humanity, downplaying the risks and problems. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman wrote in a January New...
Saturday October 25, 2025. 02:23 AM
OpenAI on Thursday rolled out its latest offering, a comprehensive data collection and analysis capability called “company knowledge”. And although vendors have been granted access to a wide range of enterprise data for decades — think of malware detection that reviews ...
Are you sure you’re still alive? If so, you may fall for a phishing scam aimed at getting the master login passwords of LastPass password manager users. OK, this sounds weird, but in some ways it isn’t. If a person dies, their immediate family may not know how to get...
Friday October 24, 2025. 05:56 PM
In a victory for surveillance capitalism, Apple may be forced to leave its users in Europe vulnerable to rapacious ad data collection in response to “intense lobbying” by politicians in the region. Apple warns these lobbying efforts mean the App Tracking...
Microsoft is enhancing its Edge browser with Copilot Mode to strengthen its AI capabilities, as it struggles to compete with Chrome’s dominance and a wave of emerging AI-native browsers. The Edge update is part of Microsoft’s broader Copilot Fall Release, which the...
While AI bots have begun mastering tasks in browsers and on Windows, Mac-using enterprises have largely been overlooked, until now. OpenAI aims to change that with its acquisition of generative AI interface maker Software Applications Incorporated. The base of this...
Companies that might be eyeing OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser should not rush to use it because of potential security risks, analysts said this week. The browser was unveiled on Tuesday after it had been teased for months as a work in progress. It is currently...
AI browsers may be smart, but they’re not smart enough to block a common threat: Malicious extensions. That’s the conclusion of researchers at SquareX, who on Thursday released a report showing how attackers can exploit AI sidebars through compromised browser extensions. ...
Thursday October 23, 2025. 08:30 PM
Reddit this week filed suit against Perplexity and three other companies — Oxylabs UAB, AWM Proxy, and Serp Api — for allegedly engaging in so-called AI scraping without authorization. According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, the four companies...
Has OpenAI shown us the future of Safari? In one way it has, because its new Atlas browser shows these generative AI (genAI)-based apps are no longer just windows to the web — they’re becoming intelligent copilots for our digital lives. That’s one of the takeaways...
Google Quantum AI has demonstrated what it describes as a verifiable quantum advantage — running a new algorithm on quantum hardware that outperforms classical supercomputers by a factor of 13,000. The breakthrough, announced on Wednesday, marks the first time a quantum...
The US government is reportedly considering new export controls that could block a wide range of products made with US software from being shipped to China, in what could become one of Washington’s most sweeping trade measures to date. If implemented, the move could...
Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, seems to be a brilliant, all-seeing savant, able to locate the most difficult-to-find facts on command. Now integrated into a wide swath of the company’s products — including the Microsoft 365 apps, Windows, Edge, Bing, and...
Wednesday October 22, 2025. 09:33 PM
A new international study coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC shows that AI assistants distort news content nearly half of the time. The research included 22 public service broadcasters in 18 countries and 14 languages. In the study, more ...
Apple device management and security company Kandji has changed its name to Iru, reflecting a new approach to what it does while opening its offer up to Windows and Android. It means enterprises shifting to Apple tech can now manage all their legacy equipment using the...
More than 850 prominent figures have called for a prohibition on developing AI superintelligence, a move that could reshape enterprise AI investments and intensify the US-China technology race if adopted. The open letter, released Wednesday by the Future of Life Institute,...
Virtually every aspect of technology has been affected, and potentially improved, by artificial intelligence (AI). PCs are no exception. While the meaning of “AI PC” is still evolving, it generally refers to a computer specifically designed to excel at AI-powered tasks....
Intel’s upcoming “Panther Lake” processor for AI PCs could be a key building block in the transition of Windows 11 into an AI agent-driven OS, analysts said this week. Panther Lake will be available in PCs starting early in 2026. The chip meets the qualifications set ...
Tuesday October 21, 2025. 07:30 PM
Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does...
Two big tech events took place last week: Microsoft declared hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs dead as the dodo — at least when it comes to continuing support — while Apple introduced the world’s best-performing AI PCs, equipped with its industry-leading M5...
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