Work-from-office mandates are accelerating as the world moves further away from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say. Over the past year, many companies, including IT giants Amazon and Microsoft, have required employees to work from

Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming the exploitation. Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20045 along with patches for Unified Communications Manager, Unity Connection, and Webex

More details about the expected cadence of Apple’s plans to turn Siri into an AI-driven chatbot are emerging, and Mark Gurman tells us Apple has a two-tier approach in mind.  The current thinking is that Apple’s Gemini-powered chatbot will arrive in June with iOS 26.4, which will be a significant improvement in itself. “Other than the chatbot interface,

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that the AI boom could become a speculative bubble if the technology does not gain wider acceptance outside of large technology companies and wealthy economies. “For this not to be a bubble by definition, the benefits need to be spread much more evenly,” Nadella said at the World Economic Forum

Anthropic has completely overhauled the “Claude constitution”, a document that sets out the ethical parameters governing its AI model’s reasoning and behavior. Launched at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Summit, the new constitution’s principles are that Claude should be “broadly safe” (not undermining human oversight), “Broadly ethical” (honest, avoiding inappropriate, dangerous, or harmful actions), “genuinely

A lawsuit filed by Spotify and several major record labels was behind the shutdown of several of Anna’s Archive’s domains earlier this year. This is according to recently published documents from a federal court in the US, reports Torrentfreak. The background to this is that in December 2025, Anna’s Archive stated that the site had

Workers are getting fed up with AI-based hiring practices. A new class action lawsuit filed in California alleges that human candidates are being unfairly profiled by “hidden” AI hiring technologies that “lurk in the background” to collect “sensitive and often inaccurate” information about “unsuspecting” job applicants. The suit specifically targets Eightfold AI, claiming that tools

AI chatbots have been with us three years and one month (at least the kind that use large language models (LLMs) to communicate with natural-sounding words). Already norms are emerging in some professions for users to disclose how they use AI.  For example: Organizations such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors created policies

Primary healthcare systems across parts of Africa are under growing strain, caught between rising demand, chronic staff shortages, and shrinking international aid budgets. In that context, AI is being tested in healthcare less as a breakthrough technology and more as a way to keep basic services running. According to reporting by Reuters, the Gates Foundation

Corporate networks are filling up with AI agents, creating a governance blind spot for leaders managing multi-cloud infrastructures. As distinct business units race to adopt generative technologies, CIOs especially find their ecosystems populated by fragmented and unmonitored assets. This mirrors the shadow IT challenges of the cloud era, but involves autonomous actors capable of executing