Google has announced that Gemini will soon power its smart home platform, replacing Google Assistant on existing Nest speakers and displays from October. The feature will launch initially as an early preview. Gemini for Home promi...
A 22-year-old man from Oregon has been charged with operating one of the most powerful botnets ever uncovered, Rapper Bot. Federal prosecutors in Alaska said the network was responsible for over 370,000 cyberattacks worldwide sinc...
DeepSeek has released a minor upgrade, V3.1, yet conspicuously omitted any R1 label from its chatbot, leading to speculation over the status of the promised R2 model. The V3.1 version includes improvements such as an expanded 128K...
Meta has frozen hiring in its AI division, halting a spree that had drawn top researchers with lucrative offers. The company described the pause as basic organisational planning, aimed at building a more stable structure for its s...
Private conversations with xAI's chatbot Grok have been exposed online, raising serious concerns over user privacy and AI safety. Forbes found that Grok's 'share' button created public URLs, later indexed by Google and other searc...
Communication, empathy, and judgment were dismissed for years as 'soft skills', sidelined while technical expertise dominated training and promotion. A new perspective argues that these human competencies are fundamental to resili...
Chief of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, has urged AI firms to stop suggesting their models are conscious, warning of growing risks from unhealthy human attachments to AI systems. In a blog post, he described the phenomenon as See...
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have revealed that generative AI browser assistants may be harvesting sensitive data from users without their knowledge or consent. The study, led by the UC Davis Data Privacy La...
Imagine dreaming of your next holiday and feeling a rush of excitement. That emotion is when your attention is most engaged. Neuro-contextual advertising aims to meet you at such emotional peaks. Neuro-contextual AI goes beyond pa...
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new AI browser exploit that allows attackers to manipulate autonomous systems using fake CAPTCHA checks. The PromptFix method tricks agentic AI models into executing commands embedded in ...
Google has patched a high-severity flaw in its Chrome browser with the release of version 139, addressing vulnerability CVE-2025-9132 in the V8 JavaScript engine. The out-of-bounds write issue was discovered by Big Sleep AI, a too...
A new study reveals that prominent AI models now show a marked preference for AI?generated content over that created by humans. Tests involving GPT?3.5, GPT-4 and Llama 3.1 demonstrated a consistent bias, with models selecting AI?...