Michigan and Wisconsin are considering proposals that would ban the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) by requiring internet providers to block these encrypted connections. The stated rationale is to control how users access certain online materials, but such a ban would upend the technical foundation of modern work, learning, and communication far beyond any

Many organizations are experimenting with AI agents to determine which job roles to focus on, when to automate actions, and what steps require a human in the middle. AI agents connect the power of large language models with APIs, enabling them to take action and integrate seamlessly into employee workflows and customer experiences in a

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix is simple, but it comes with a high cost in lost sleep and operational downtime. This is the

Gunslinging IT leaders with high generative AI (genAI) experiment failure rates are creating high-tech junk that will cost money to maintain after projects are abandoned. Recent surveys indicate that failed genAI efforts will leave in their wake a lot of garbage code, abandoned apps and security issues — all of which might not be visible

Data residency is no longer enough. As governments lose faith that storing data within their borders, but on someone else’s servers, provides real sovereignty, regulators are demanding something more fundamental: control over the encryption keys for their data. Privatim, a collective of Swiss local government data protection officers, last week called on their employers to

User consent is under threat, at least when it comes to your right to decide what apps to install on your device. That’s because India now wants all smartphone makers to install a government-mandated app on their devices, an app that cannot be deleted. It’s yet another privacy-related struggle for Apple — and for all of us.  What happened?

It took just under three years, but Google has finally caught up and overtaken its AI competitors. You remember how it was. When OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and created a world-wide sensation, Google was caught napping— and panicked. Despite the fact its researchers had introduced the architecture behind the new language

Amid the hype around AI’s productivity potential, many businesses still face slow adoption among their employees. Pedro Bados, CEO and co-founder of Nexthink, believes that digital employee experience (DEX) tools could help close that gap by giving companies insights into how staffers actually use generative AI (genAI) assistants. AI will influence Nexthink’s products in a variety of ways,

When JPMorgan Asset Management reported that AI spending accounted for two-thirds of US GDP growth in the first half of 2025, it wasn’t just a statistic – it was a signal. The conversation reached a turning point recently when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon each acknowledged market

North American enterprises are now actively deploying agentic AI systems intended to reason, adapt, and act with complete autonomy. Data from Digitate’s three-year global programme indicates that, while adoption is universal across the board, regional maturity paths are diverging. North American firms are scaling toward full autonomy, whereas their European counterparts are prioritising governance frameworks