Author: InfoForTech

In 2026, the hype for artificial intelligence agents is louder than ever before. These semi-autonomous programs can “think” and execute well-defined tasks in areas like customer service and software development, typically using language models (LMs). But fields like medical diagnosis and scientific discovery require them to inquire about a vast range of solutions in uncertain environments, which LMs struggle with.Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) peered deeper into LMs to understand their main issues in high-stakes settings. Their test: “Battleship,” a classic guessing game that’s helped…

The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make it harder for bad actors to develop biological weapons using their technology.Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman are among the signatories on a public letter calling for laws requiring companies that sell synthetic DNA and RNA to screen customers and orders to prevent the misuse of genetic material.Organized by the nonpartisan Institute for Progress and the right-leaning Foundation for American Innovation, the letter acknowledges that given the pace of AI development,…

Apple’s security year so far has been anything but quiet. The company’s 2026 security cycle has been dominated by a steady stream of updates across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and Safari, with most major platforms now on versions 26.5 or later. Below is a breakdown of the company’s key security events so far this year. Apple’s first zero-day of 2026 One of the most significant security events of the year came in February, when Apple disclosed CVE-2026-20700, a vulnerability affecting a core operating system component known as dyld. The flaw could allow attackers to execute malicious code on…

Enduring Planet’s co-founders, from left: Chief Technology Officer Joshua Krafchin, CEO Dimitry Gershenson, and Chief Operating Officer Erin Davis. (Enduring Planet Photo) Enduring Planet, a fintech company with Pacific Northwest roots, on Wednesday announced it has closed its second fund at more than $12 million — more than twice the size of its first. Launched in 2021, Enduring Planet provides loans to early-stage climate startups, with a focus on those that have been awarded government grants and contracts. The company also offers part-time chief financial officer services. “We’re really proud of this outcome, despite the challenging market environment that climate…

Corporate America is starting to ration AI, and it’s affecting marketing teams. Axios and The Wall Street Journal report that some enterprises have burned through their entire annual AI budget in just a few months. Others have watched AI spending double or triple with little warning.

Dell Technologies Inc. opened its annual gathering in Las Vegas this month with the news that it had added 1,000 AI Factory customers globally in a single quarter, bringing its total base to over 5,000 users. The announcement revealed a basic truth: AI adoption is moving rapidly, and the enterprise platform must be swiftly rebuilt to keep up. This message was reinforced by Dell founder and chief executive Michael Dell (pictured) in his keynote remarks and subsequent interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. Data querying and orchestration are priorities now in the world of agentic AI, and future business…

As AI continues to encroach on every aspect of our lives, there is a persistent fear or hope, depending on your angle: AI will someday take over art. The internet is full of quizzes showing that most lay people cannot tell the difference between AI-generated art (digital pictures of paintings, prose) and the real thing. Multiple studies have shown that when people are shown AI-generated art and human-made art, but are not told which is which, they tend to prefer the AI-generated art, whether it be images, poetry, or prose.Yet what’s striking is that despite this disparity, people still consistently…

Can communities, livelihood, and the environment be rendered expendable in pursuit of technological progress? “Residents are using words like silenced, ignored, secretive, and not seen and not heard.” Erin Brockovich has built a website focused on transparency surrounding data center construction, with over 3,674 community reports in just two months. And yes, it’s the same consumer advocate who single-handedly built a massive case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company back in 1993. Source This website is basically an archive, and its most intriguing aspect is the map showing all data centers that are up and running/being constructed/planned/pending approval across different states in the US.…

Today, we welcome the 46th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: the Philippines.The Philippines’ National CERT, working with the Department of Information and Communications Technology, now has access to monitor official government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives their Cyber Threat Intel and Monitoring Section the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond quickly when those accounts appear in new data breach.This is precisely what the HIBP government service was built for: helping national cyber teams better understand credential exposure across their government domain space, monitor for compromised accounts on demand…

To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret the charts that often fill market summaries and financial reports.But even the latest vision-language models sometimes struggle with this task, since it requires a model to integrate visual, numerical, and linguistic understanding. A company that invests in a state-of-the-art model might still receive inaccurate or incomplete information.To fill this performance gap, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab developed a multifaceted resource for AI users that is specifically designed to teach vision-language models (VLMs) how to…