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The PC industry has never been shy about creating labels. Multimedia PC. Internet PC. Ultrabook. Creator laptop. Gaming rig. Workstation. Some of those labels described real shifts in architecture or use. Others mostly offered marketing teams a new sticker for the palm rest. “AI PC” has the same problem. It describes a real change, but with very little precision. The term can mean a Windows laptop with an NPU capable of running local AI features. It can mean an Arm-based Copilot+ PC optimized for mobility and battery life. It can mean a high-end Intel or AMD Windows machine that preserves…
Enterprise AI data strategy is separating the organizations that execute on AI from those that aspire to it, and the difference boils down to whether the data foundation was built before the AI was deployed. It’s a valuable lesson that resides at the heart of a deepening partnership between Ericsson and Snowflake, according to Elena Fersman (pictured, right), vice president and head of AI innovation and incubation at Ericsson at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson publ. The company has spent nearly two decades building toward what Fersman describes as an “AI-ification” of its portfolio, a transformation from a 150-year-old radio hardware company…
Among those who turned down job offers, nearly a third did so because it didn’t pay enough If you’ve just graduated and are stressed about your starting salary, you’re not alone. According to a CNA report, a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) survey of residents aged 22 to 28 found that graduates across most disciplines are earning less than they expected when entering the workforce. And with global uncertainty still looming, analysts are telling fresh grads to manage their expectations—or risk sitting on the job hunt longer than they’d like. How big is the salary gap? CNA cited figures from MOM to…
The MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has received renewed support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an additional five years, increasing annual funding from $4 million to $4.98 million. The renewal marks a new phase for IAIFI, which has spent its first five years building a research model and an interdisciplinary community around a central premise: that AI can open new ways of doing physics, while physics can help mold better AI systems. Launched in 2020 as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program, IAIFI brings together researchers from MIT, along with Harvard, Northeastern,…
Microsoft has launched Scout, an always-on AI assistant built on OpenClaw, but the bigger story is the industry’s growing shift from chatbots to digital coworkers. For the past three years, AI companies have been competing on a fairly simple premise. Build a smarter model. The assumption was that better reasoning, larger context windows, and more capabilities would eventually unlock the future everyone was promising. Microsoft’s new Scout assistant suggests the industry is starting to think differently. Scout isn’t another chatbot or another Copilot feature. It’s designed as an always-on personal agent that will gradually reiterate how a person works over…
Emphere co-founders Ankit Kumar, CEO, left, and Pallav Gupta, CTO. (Emphere Photos) AI-powered security tools are getting increasingly good at finding vulnerabilities, but a new Seattle startup is aiming to help software companies do the harder part: fixing them. Emphere announced $2.1 million in pre-seed funding Thursday from AI2 Incubator and Outsiders Fund to automate the work of fixing software security flaws. It focuses on open-source distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, and Alpine, automatically patching known vulnerabilities for software companies that sell to banks and other regulated industries. The startup was founded by CEO Ankit Kumar and CTO Pallav Gupta, who…
Ad blockers have traditionally lived inside web browsers, quietly cleaning up websites while leaving the rest of your apps untouched. A new tool called Filtr now wants to change that by bringing system-wide ad and tracker blocking to Apple devices, potentially reshaping how users experience apps across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Filtr is being positioned as a privacy-focused utility capable of blocking advertising and tracking requests in almost every app installed on Apple devices. Built by the developer behind the Wipr ad blocker, the tool reportedly uses Apple’s newer URL Filtering framework introduced in recent operating system updates. Instead of…
Swati KhandelwalJun 04, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco’s PSIRT says it has not seen the flaw used in attacks yet. The PoC shortens that runway. The flaw is a server-side request forgery. Unified CM and its Session Management Edition fail to validate certain HTTP requests properly, so a crafted request can push the server into writing arbitrary files onto the…
Welcome to the era of the big three.We’re not talking rappers here — although according to Kendrick Lamar, it’s “just big me” — we’re talking AI companies: Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI.These three leading artificial intelligence companies are all expected to go public this year. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which recently acquired another Musk company, xAi, is on track to open up to investors later this month. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, just filed confidentially with the States Securities and Exchange Commission for its own initial public offering. Reports say OpenAI could also go public as soon as September. (Disclosure:…
A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making their way up through Central America for the past several years.In a social media post on Wednesday afternoon, the USDA revealed that a sample from Texas had been sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa, for confirmatory testing of a screwworm infection. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins later posted that the testing had confirmed the infection, which was…