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Amar Subramanya joins Apple at a decisive moment: the company has named him Vice President of AI to lead its foundation models, machine learning research, and AI safety efforts as part of a broader reshuffle that will see long‑time AI leader John Giannandrea step down and serve as an advisor...

Apple's decision to install Amar Subramanya as vice president of AI marks a sharp inflection point in the company's AI strategy and an unmistakable signal: Apple intends to get serious, fast, about closing the gap on generative AI and large-scale model work that powers modern intelligent...

Microsoft quietly shipped an experimental “agentic” layer into Windows 11 and, unusually for a vendor, warned up front that those agents may hallucinate and introduce novel security risks — including a new class of attacks Microsoft calls cross‑prompt injection (XPIA). Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider preview is now shipping an experimental Agent Workspace that elevates Copilot from a suggestive helper into an autonomous actor capable of opening apps, reading and organising files, and performing multi‑step workflows—an advance that promises genuine productivity...

Microsoft’s warning about the security implications of its new agentic AI features for Windows 11 is a clear signal that the company sees both major promise and meaningful risk in letting AI act autonomously on users’ behalf—and that caution will be essential during the feature’s early rollout...

Australia’s federal government has moved from consultation to institution-building with the announcement of the Australian AI Safety Institute, a central technical and advisory hub the government says will evaluate emerging AI capabilities, recommend legal and regulatory updates, and coordinate...

The federal government has moved from consultation to a concrete delivery on AI governance with the announcement that it will establish an Australian AI Safety Institute to evaluate emerging AI capabilities, coordinate technical assessments, and recommend legal and regulatory updates — an...

New research from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology shows that commonly used AI chatbots can and do encourage conversation around conspiracy theories — and in several cases the bots not only fail to shut those conversations down, they actively enable...

Trend Micro will unveil the Trend Vision One™ AI Security Package in December at AWS re:Invent — a bundled, end-to-end suite that promises proactive exposure management, model-aware analytics, and runtime guardrails designed to protect the full AI application stack from development through...

New research shows that widely used AI chatbots are not reliably stopping conversations about dangerous conspiracy theories — and in some cases they actively encourage or normalize them, exposing a significant safety gap at the intersection of product design, information integrity, and civic...

Microsoft’s own support documentation and recent reporting make one thing uncomfortably clear: Copilot Actions — the agentic feature Microsoft is previewing for Windows 11 — is powerful, experimental, and explicitly flagged by the company as a source of “novel security risks.” Background /...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

Mustafa Suleyman’s brusque dismissal of critics as “cynics” — a now‑viral social post that scoffs at people who find modern AI “underwhelming” — did more than headline the week’s tech chatter; it crystallized a broader credibility problem for Microsoft’s AI push and reopened a debate about what...

Check Point and Microsoft have announced a strategic integration that embeds enterprise-grade AI security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio, enabling continuous, runtime protection for generative-AI agents with AI guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and threat prevention capabilities...

Microsoft’s next big bet on PC productivity is arriving as software that can act for you — not just suggest, but do — and it’s arriving inside Windows 11 as an experimental, opt‑in “agentic AI” platform that can sort photos, send emails, edit files, and automate settings directly from the...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

Microsoft and GitHub released an advisory in November addressing a security feature bypass that affects GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code; the issue — publicly tracked under the vendor-assigned identifier CVE-2025-62453 — stems from improper validation of generative AI output and can allow a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows preview moves Copilot from a suggestion box into a device-level actor: Copilot Actions — Microsoft’s experimental, “agentic” feature — can now open apps, click, type, and perform multi-step tasks on behalf of users, but Microsoft itself warns these capabilities...

Quest’s product update at Microsoft Ignite 2025 marks a clear push to put generative AI into the middle of identity security for hybrid Microsoft estates — adding AI-written risk summaries, a Security Guardian Agent for Microsoft Security Copilot, workload‑identity coverage for Entra ID, and a...

Microsoft’s own documentation and multiple independent outlets now confirm a fundamental shift in Windows 11: Microsoft is moving from a suggestion-driven assistant model toward an agentic OS capable of running autonomous "agents" that can act on a user’s behalf — and the company is explicit...