The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and

Google is recasting its data and analytics portfolio as the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture it says is aimed at moving enterprise AI from pilot to production by turning fragmented data into a unified semantic layer that agents can reason over and act on more reliably at scale. The new architecture builds on Google’s existing

The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service. Both launched on the same day that Google both updated its Gemini Enterprise app to provide new ways for office workers to build,

Cloud computing is a key foundation of modern business, yet many approach learning it in overly complicated ways. New learners often believe they need costly boot camps, certification bundles, or long technical courses before they can get a job in the field. This approach discourages potential entrants and creates false barriers around a discipline that’s

To many people, AI manifests one of sci-fi’s central plot points: built intelligence or machines that think and act independently of a human supervisor. But from my perspective, we haven’t quite achieved the true fulfilment of that vision. For this reason, many thought leaders describe world models as AI’s next big paradigm shift. These models

An autonomous table tennis robot developed by Sony AI has competed against and defeated high-level human players in regulated matches, according to Reuters. The system is part of a broader category often referred to as “physical AI,” where artificial intelligence is applied to machines operating in real-world environments. The robot, named Ace, was designed to

At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA outlined their hardware roadmap designed to address the cost of AI inference at scale. The companies detailed the new A5X bare-metal instances, which run on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. Through hardware and software codesign, this architecture aims to deliver up to ten times lower

A billion dollars in startup funding for a company that employs 12 people is an indication that investors still have faith in AI. But the founder of the startup in question – AMI Labs’ Yann LeCun – believes that the breed of technology we currently term AI (large language models) is not the way through

OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.0, and this update feels bigger than a normal image model refresh. The main reason is simple. It can now create images with readable text, more accurate layouts, and better results for practical tasks that used to break most AI image tools. That matters because people do not only want

Rilian, a startup building AI-native cybersecurity and defense systems, has secured $17.5 million in funding on the premise that national security organizations do not lack good technology. What they lack is the ability to use it effectively. The company was co-founded by Christian Schnedler, Nick Pompeo, and Dan Fischer, three practitioners with backgrounds in operational