This week, the impossible happened—again. Amazon Web Services, the backbone of the digital economy and the world’s largest cloud provider, suffered a large-scale outage. If you work in IT or depend on cloud services, you didn’t need a news alert to know something was wrong. Productivity ground to a halt, websites failed to load, business

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, seems to be a brilliant, all-seeing savant, able to locate the most difficult-to-find facts on command. Now integrated into a wide swath of the company’s products — including the Microsoft 365 apps, Windows, Edge, Bing, and more — Copilot can be a godsend for those who create business documents, from

The US government is reportedly considering new export controls that could block a wide range of products made with US software from being shipped to China, in what could become one of Washington’s most sweeping trade measures to date. If implemented, the move could disrupt global technology supply chains and heighten uncertainty for multinational manufacturers

Google Quantum AI has demonstrated what it describes as a verifiable quantum advantage — running a new algorithm on quantum hardware that outperforms classical supercomputers by a factor of 13,000. The breakthrough, announced on Wednesday, marks the first time a quantum computer has executed a verifiable algorithm with real-world applications, potentially accelerating enterprise workloads in

Has OpenAI shown us the future of Safari? In one way it has, because its new Atlas browser shows these generative AI (genAI)-based apps are no longer just windows to the web — they’re becoming intelligent copilots for our digital lives.  That’s one of the takeaways from the introduction this week of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-powered browser for

Reddit this week filed suit against Perplexity and three other companies — Oxylabs UAB, AWM Proxy, and Serp Api — for allegedly engaging in so-called AI scraping without authorization. According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, the four companies collected millions of posts on Reddit with the aim of monetizing them.

AI browsers may be smart, but they’re not smart enough to block a common threat: Malicious extensions. That’s the conclusion of researchers at SquareX, who on Thursday released a report showing how attackers can exploit AI sidebars through compromised browser extensions. This attack vector isn’t new. Malicious extensions have been inserted into browser web stores

Companies that might be eyeing OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser should not rush to use it because of potential security risks, analysts said this week. The browser was unveiled on Tuesday after it had been teased for months as a work in progress. It is currently available for MacOS only. Atlas can help automate online browsing based on

Reports are circulating this week that Meta is cutting approximately 600 positions from its AI division, a move that seems paradoxical given the company’s aggressive recruitment campaign over recent months. The contradiction raises important questions about Meta’s AI strategy and what it signals for the broader tech industry. For those following Meta AI job cuts,