ChatGPT adult mode is in the news because OpenAI reportedly planned a feature that would allow erotic text conversations for adult users, then delayed it after internal debate over safety, mental health, and access by minors. That is why this story matters. ChatGPT is not a niche app used by a small group of adults.

Something quiet but seismic happened between late 2024 and early 2026. Boardrooms stopped asking whether to deploy AI agents – and started asking how fast. The numbers, frankly, are hard to ignore. According to the 2026 State of Agentic AI Survey Report by CrewAI – based on 500 C-level executives at organizations with $100M+ in

VerbaFlo has raised fresh capital at a time when real estate operators are under pressure to do more with less. The conversational AI company said it has secured a $7 million seed round led by Pi Labs, with participation from Haatch, Navigate Ventures, Old College Capital, the University of Edinburgh’s venture investment arm, and a

Acsense, the IAM Resilience Platform, today announced the launch of Safe Configuration Management, a new capability designed to help enterprises safely test, validate, and deploy identity configuration changes without risking outages or compliance failures. 2.5 years of data, backups included — by executing a Terraform destroy command with unchecked permissions. The incident went viral, but it

Veritone Data Refinery removes personally identifiable information from unstructured data using automated redaction software, Redact, reinforcing Veritone’s longstanding commitment to ethical, privacy-first AI Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), a leader in building enterprise AI and data solutions, continues to advance privacy safeguards and IP protection. By deploying Veritone Redact alongside Veritone Data Refinery (VDR), personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive

DarcyIQ connects to the Newly Launched AWS Partner Central Agents Experience, Enabling AWS Partners to Manage Opportunities, Unlock Funding, and Accelerate Deals Innovative Solutions, the fastest growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner that delivers AI and data services to growing businesses, today announced that DarcyIQ now supports the newly launched AWS Partner

Cato Neural Edge embeds NVIDIA GPUs across Cato’s global private backbone, enabling real-time AI inspection; Cato AI Security delivers unified governance and protection for enterprise AI adoption Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today unveiled two major innovations for the Cato SASE Platform to secure enterprise AI adoption at scale. Cato is introducing Cato Neural Edge, deploying NVIDIA

Artificial intelligence investment is entering a more selective phase as companies and investors look beyond early excitement and focus on the data centre infrastructure required to run AI systems. Recent analysis from Goldman Sachs suggests the market is moving toward what the firm describes as a “flight to quality.” In practice, investors are paying closer

Trustpilot is reported to be pursuing partnerships with large eCommerce companies as AI-driven shopping gains traction. In an interview with Bloomberg News , chief executive Adrian Blair said that AI agents acting on behalf of consumers require lots of information about the businesses they’re willing to interact with. He said the most effective systems will

Solution to improve speed to revenue, energy performance and operations and maintenance for AI data centers Jacobs (NYSE: J) has released a Data Center Digital Twin solution that enables developers and owners to plan, simulate and optimize gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers in a virtual environment – improving speed to market, energy performance and long-term operations. The digital