AI & Bots
‘Dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption’: The undetectable hum of AI data centers is making local residents sick
The cooling systems and generators of AI data centers are causing illnesses Noise emitted from data →
OpenAI’s ‘Trusted Contact’ feature for ChatGPT users in crisis is a sign AI is becoming something much more personal
If there was ever evidence that people are forming deep emotional reliance on ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new →
Gartner: GenAI has broken traditional cybersecurity awareness – what comes next?
Cybersecurity awareness has long relied on a simple premise: educate employees, reduce risk. But in 2026, →
Why AI-generated ads are becoming indistinguishable
For small businesses, AI has made advertising easier to produce but much harder to differentiate. What →
‘AI is no longer a future concept, but an operational reality’: New KPMG report claims firms are “racing” to deploy AI – but need to ensure they have the right security protections
Nearly all companies plan to deploy or scale AI in finance over the next year and →
Digital sovereignty is no longer a policy debate, it’s technology decision
For many years, digital sovereignty was mainly discussed in policy circles. It appeared in government strategies, →
AI memory crunch will make smartphones more expensive
AI data centers are draining global memory supply, forcing Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and NAND →
Airbnb CEO admits ‘I do not think anyone has figured out AI for travel or e-commerce yet’ — but says AI now writes 60% of its new code
Airbnb says 60% of its code is now AI-written CEO claims AI is helping it work →
‘I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven away from Fedora because of AI’: Ubuntu and Fedora confirmed to both get AI support soon
Fedora criticized over AI Developer Desktop Objective and “alienate[ing] users” Project Lead declares “zero evidence” that →
Navigating the rise of agentic AI in 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous companion both at home and at work. Without people →
A fake OpenAI repository has taken top spot on Hugging Face — but all it does is push infostealer malware
Attackers typosquatted an OpenAI repo on HuggingFace, distributing an infostealer disguised as a “privacy filter” model →
Everyone’s doing AI, but who’s seeing value?
Artificial intelligence is now widely adopted across organizations, but its tangible impact remains uneven. Recent research →
Compression’s new goal: Reducing how much an AI ‘overthinks’
Back in the late ‘90s, you compressed because storage was limited, bandwidth was expensive, and users →
Your humble digital wallet may soon become the gatekeeper to your purchases
As digital wallets continue their rapid expansion across global markets, much of the industry conversation remains →
‘Podslop’ is a real and growing problem — data shows 39% of new podcasts are now ‘likely’ generated by AI. Here’s why I won’t be listening
It looks like it’s time to introduce a ‘hosted by humans’ badge for podcasts: Bloomberg reports →
ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Apple’s iPhone AI payout to Google’s all-new Fitbit
This week, Apple announced it’s set to pay out millions to iPhone users over its Siri →
ChatGPT now lets you nominate a Trusted Contact who gets alerted if your interaction with AI ‘indicates a serious safety concern’
ChatGPT is introducing a new Trusted Contact feature Your contact gets alerted if the AI detects →
Mozilla says Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in just one month
Mozilla says it has patched over 400 bugs with the help of Anthropic Mythos The tool →
‘We’re going through the single largest infrastructure buildout in human history’: Jensen Huang says new Nvidia AI partnership will ‘revitalize American manufacturing’
Nvidia CEO says American manufacturing has a huge opportunity with AI ‘We’re going through the single →
Programmers are starting to trust AI more – but still don’t entirely believe it won’t come for their jobs
58% use AI to write code daily/often/sometimes, but 28% never use it at all Many lack →
OpenAI has 3 new AI voice models that the ChatGPT maker says will ‘unlock a new class of voice apps for developers’
OpenAI has launched three new artificial intelligence (AI) models They’re for real-time voice tasks: reasoning, translation, →
The Netherlands’ ambitious homegrown AI model enters the real world
The Netherlands has begun real-world testing of its national AI model GPT-NL GPT-NL is designed as →
Meta acquires Moltbook but is our data safe?
In a recent development, Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social platform that was originally created for →
Why AI auditability is what every security leader should be talking about
When I joined Smartsheet, one of my first priorities was understanding where AI was actually operating →
Balancing control and innovation for mission-critical communications
There is mounting pressure for organizations to lock down their data, maintain operational continuity, and protect →
AI: The difference between augmenting and transforming your business
In the race to adopt AI tools, most leadership teams are watching from the sidelines while →
Google is turning Gemini into a 24/7 AI agent that plans your life for you
Google is reportedly developing a new agentic version of Gemini. The new Gemini is called Remy →
Static network baselines won’t survive agentic AI
Enterprise networks are entering a new phase in how AI is applied, moving beyond analytics dashboards →
Why Confidential AI is the next big thing for enterprise
Enterprise AI faces a trust problem that better models alone will not solve. Once AI systems →
AI-driven cyber warfare reshapes global defense readiness
The Iran conflict is serving as an AI testbed for the next era of cyber conflict. →