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OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk warnings to protect ChatGPT against prompt-injection attacks and reduce data-exfiltration risks. The post OpenAI Introduces New Safeguards in ChatGPT
After facing mounting pressure from Hollywood alongside legal threats from Disney, ByteDance moves to tighten safeguards on its AI video app, Seedance 2.0.
Android local backup means your Downloads folder will back up to Google Drive – iCloud already syncs downloads to the cloud.
SurrealDB Inc. today revealed that it has raised an additional $23 million in funding for its multimodel artificial intelligence-native database. The plan is to accelerate product maturity and adoption and expand its team to scale up its cloud offering and deepen support for production deployment
Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for AI agents often involves using multiple layers and technologies for structured data, vectors and graph information. In recent months it has also become increasingly clear that agentic AI systems need memory, sometimes referred to as contex
Kino AI developers have launch
Kino AI developers have launch
Google Ads now lets advertisers connect external data to conversions, improving
There is a new Google Ads help document named About the Results tab in Google Ads Recommendations. It explains that in the Results tab, you can now view the performance impact afte
Google AI Mode has this feature where you can ask about a specific product, it is called "Ask about." Now when you hover over a product, the "Ask about" will overlay
Did you know that the Google AI Overviews link citation paperclip icons are blue before you click to see more of the overviews and then after you click on them, that icon turns to a gray col
Illinois users claim Microsoft Teams illegally captured biometric voice data through its transcription tool, sparking a major privacy lawsuit under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
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Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays Capita is banking on Microsoft Copilot to help rescue the backlog of cases it has inherited in taking over the UK Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS).…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have tested the security of Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane, and 1Password password managers. The post Password Managers Vulnerable to Vault Compromise Un
Cognizant is establishing a Gemini Enterprise Centre of Excellence to support the standardisation and scaling of its delivery processes. The post Cognizant scales agentic AI operations through Google Cloud alliance
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OpenAI has introduced two new security features, Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels, in its AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
Microsoft is rolling out AI Workflows in the Teams Workflows app, bringing intelligent automation capabilities powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot to help users streamline daily operations and automate complex tasks. The feature uses scheduled Copilot prompts through predefined templates, making set
Microsoft is rolling out AI Workflows in the Teams Workflows app, bringing intelligent automation capabilities powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot to help users streamline daily operations and automate complex tasks. The feature uses scheduled Copilot prompts through predefined templates, making set
OpenAI is rolling out a new 'Lockdown Mode' for ChatGPT, aimed at protecting users and organisations handling highly sensitive information from advan
India has reached 100 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, highlighting the country's growing importance i
Apache NiFi users are being urged to upgrade after the project disclosed a high-severity authorization flaw tracked as CVE-2026-25903. The issue, published on 2026-02-16, can allow a less-privileged authenticated user to modify configuration properties on certain “restricted” extension components
The Langchain development team has released a critical security update for the @langchain/community package to address a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. Identified as CVE-2026-26019, this flaw exists within the RecursiveUrlLoader class, a utility used for web crawling. If left u
Alibaba claims Qwen3.5 was 60 per cent cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads than its immediate predecessor, adding that the model also came with the ability to independently take actions across mobile and desktop apps, or what the company calls "visual agentic capabili
Roundel's svp Matt Drzewicki talked about what they expect from the pilot.
OpenAI has begun testing ads in ChatGPT through premium brand partnerships, signaling a new phase in its monetization strategy.
The three major cloud-based password managers, such as Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane, collectively serve approximately 60 million users. Despite marketing claims of “zero-knowledge encryption,” the research team demonstrated that these platforms contained vulnerabilities allowing
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture
Qwen3 is Alibaba's latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with "advanced, dynamic reasoning." Alibaba Group has released its newest AI model series, featuring enhanced capabilities, as it faces intensifying competition in China's AI space with several model
Alibaba's new Qwen3.5 model brings agentic AI capabilities as Chinese tech giants pivot
Owner ByteDance responds to copyright infringement allegations.
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is facing backlash in Hollywood over its new AI video model, Seedance 2.0. NBC News’ Chloe Melas reports on the backlash as ByteDance says it will “strengthen current safeguards” after entertainment companies raised concerns about copyright infringement.
India is already the second-largest market for ElevenLabs and is fast turning into one of its biggest growth engines, as enterprises scale voice artificial intelligence across customer service, sales and operations, the company’s cofounder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski said.
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. By default, Qwen3.5 is capable of processing prompts with up to
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video tool introduces built-in copyright safeguards that block generation of Disney and other protected characters, positioning the TikTok parent company
Microsoft's aggressive integration of Copilot and Recall into Windows has sparked user backlash. Removing these AI features requires navigating Group Policy, Registry edits, and Pow
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, a powerful new video model, is drawing alarm in Hollywood after it churned out a slew of copyrighted IP.
The AI model has been compared to DeepSeek and has been praised for its ability to produce cinematic storylines with just a few prompts.
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The Seedance "End of Hollywood" likely points to the paths forward...
ByteDance has pledged to strengthen safegu
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Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDance's sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.
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