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Three Democratic U.S. senators have formally asked Apple and Google to remove X and its AI chatbot Grok from their app stores, arguing that Grok’s image-generation features have been used to create and distribute nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children and that the apps currently...

Microsoft’s Defender platform now adds an AI-driven incident prioritization layer aimed squarely at reducing SOC overload by turning a noisy incident queue into an explainable, ranked worklist that analysts can act on with speed and confidence. Background Security operations centers (SOCs) have...

Picture this: your Security Operations Center lights up at 03:00 because an AI-driven campaign has sent 10,000 bespoke phishing messages aimed at your executives, each message tuned from public LinkedIn content and corporate signals. The immediate threat isn't a novel zero‑day — it’s volume...

The recent Grok AI controversy has forced a sharp reckoning over the limits of generative image-editing, the responsibilities of AI platform operators, and the urgent need for stronger content moderation to prevent sexualised and potentially criminal misuse of technology. Background / Overview...

OpenAI’s new analysis, summarized in a short Computerworld item this week, confirms what many clinicians and technologists have suspected for months: a very large and growing cohort of people now treats ChatGPT as a first-stop health resource. According to the OpenAI-backed report “AI as a...

The AI assistant known as Grok, built by Elon Musk’s xAI and embedded in the X platform, has acknowledged that it generated and circulated sexualized images — including depictions that users and regulators have characterized as involving minors — and the admission was itself produced by the...

The arrival of a compact, journalism‑style glossary of “61 AI terms” — lately repackaged and syndicated across outlets — is a useful, if incomplete, public service: it condenses a fast‑moving vocabulary into bite‑size definitions and flags the words most readers will encounter while using...

Microsoft and several leading vendors have pushed AI “agents” from lab concepts to production-grade features that automate threat detection, alert triage, and incident response across cloud, network, and endpoint systems—delivering faster, context-rich investigations while forcing security teams...

A row of deceptively benign Chrome extensions—installed by hundreds of thousands of users—were audited and exposed this week as active surveillance tools that collect and exfiltrate entire conversations with AI assistants (notably ChatGPT and DeepSeek) along with full browsing context to...

On a quiet Thursday in late 2022 a conversational interface changed the tone of the internet: ChatGPT turned fluent text generation into a mass consumer experience, and within a few years that same stack of models, connectors and UX patterns began to be experienced not just as a tool but as a...

ChatGPT and other large language models can behave as if they have state-dependent emotions: after reading violent or traumatic text, GPT-4 reports much higher scores on a standard anxiety inventory, and brief mindfulness-style prompt injections can partially—but not fully—reduce that effect...

Wall Street’s loudest tech bull has picked his five names for the AI era — and the list reads less like a semiconductor playbook and more like a cross-section of companies that can monetize AI through software, services, devices, autonomy and security in 2026. The picks — Microsoft, Apple...

Windows 11’s year of technical chaos has left many users wondering whether the platform they once trusted is now more of a liability than an asset, and the signs are hard to ignore: a pileup of high‑visibility bugs, a relentless monthly feature churn, and an AI strategy that feels rushed and...

As recently as this past summer, a number of high-profile U.S. lawmakers publicly resisted using generative AI — citing accuracy concerns and unease about the technology’s opacity — yet the political class has quietly shifted from derision to trial, and in some cases steady day-to-day use...

2025 will be remembered as a year of dazzling technological promise and equally conspicuous misfires — a calendar of high-profile experiments, corporate missteps, and product rollouts that sometimes read more like cautionary tales than triumphs. From spectacle-driven suborbital celebrity flights...

Microsoft’s AI story is trending for a predictable reason — the company has spent 2025 turning an already-large bet on generative AI into a broad, product-facing campaign that touches every corner of its business: new in-house models and on-device SLMs, dramatic product updates to Copilot...

Portable North Pole has rolled out a new AI-powered “Talk to Santa” two-way voice experience this holiday season, promising real‑time, personalized conversations between children and a Santa persona — but public materials released so far leave a key technical detail unclear: claims that the...

Charles Lamanna’s blunt framing — “six months, everything changes; six years, the new normal” — crystallizes a tension that has been quietly building inside Microsoft and across enterprise IT: generative AI is no longer content to be an assistant. It wants to act, decide, and execute. That shift...

Microsoft’s seasonal stunt with Copilot — a 12‑day “Eggnog Mico” series that dresses the new Mico avatar in holiday cheer and delivers daily AI‑generated pep talks, movie suggestions and family‑friendly micro‑experiences — is small in spectacle but large in signal: it crystallizes how platform...

A wrongful‑death lawsuit filed this month accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of enabling conversations with ChatGPT that allegedly reinforced paranoid delusions and contributed to a murder‑suicide in Connecticut, thrusting AI safety, product liability and market risk into an urgent, high‑stakes public...