Google has appealed a US ruling that in 2024 found the company had an illegal monopoly in internet search and search advertising, reports CNBC. After a special hearing on penalties, the court decided in 2025 on milder measures than those originally proposed by the US Department of Justice. Among other things, Google will not have

Open AI will begin testing ads in Chat GPT for certain users in the US. The ads will be shown to free users and in the new Chat GPT Go subscription, which costs $8 per month. They will not be shown to Plus, Pro, Business, or Enterprise subscribers. The ads will be clearly labeled and

Gartner predicts that global spending on AI will reach $2.52 trillion in 2026. That is an increase of 44 percent compared to the previous year. Much of the growth is expected to be driven by AI infrastructure, particularly investments in AI-optimized servers, which are expected to increase by 49 percent and account for 17 percent

Windows 11 users have discovered that, since the latest software update, their computers restart instead of going into sleep mode or shutting down. The problem is due to a bug in Secure Launch, a security feature designed to protect the computer’s firmware from attacks during startup. Fortunately, Microsoft has now begun rolling out a new

Meta’s major investment in Metaverse has not been a great success, and recently more than 1,000 people working on the project were laid off. The latest news is that the social VR platform Horizon Workrooms will be shut down on February 16, according to a support document on Meta’s website. At the same time, sales

Google’s Mandiant security division has come up with an unusual tactic to persuade organizations to stop using the aged and hugely insecure NTLMv1 authentication protocol: publish a data lookup that makes cracking NTLMv1 credentials trivial for attackers. The intention, Mandiant explained, is to draw attention to the fact that, despite decades of evidence that NTLMv1

Enterprises using Intune mobile application management (MAM) beware: Your apps won’t run soon if you haven’t planned ahead. Microsoft is updating its Intune MAM to support new security requirements starting January 19 or “soon after”, requiring that all iOS-wrapped apps, iOS SDK-integrated apps, and the Intune Company Portal for Android be updated to the latest

Inside large banks, artificial intelligence has moved into a category once reserved for payment systems, data centres, and core risk controls. At JPMorgan Chase, AI is framed as infrastructure the bank believes it cannot afford to neglect. That position came through clearly in recent comments from CEO Jamie Dimon, who defended the bank’s rising technology

Artificial intelligence has shifted rapidly from a peripheral innovation to a structural component of modern financial services. In banking, payments, and wealth management, to name but three sub-sectors, AI is now embedded in budgeting tools, fraud detection systems, KYC, AML, and customer engagement platforms. Credit unions sit in this broader fintech transformation, facing similar technological

Scaling AI value from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide adoption remains a primary hurdle for many organisations. While experimentation with generative models has become ubiquitous, industrialising these tools (i.e. wrapping them in necessary governance, security, and integration layers) often stalls. Addressing the gap between investment and operational return, IBM has introduced a new service model designed