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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Recently, we’ve been bombarded by apocalyptic news about the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI), from fears that the technology could break loose and cause catastrophic damage to humanity to concerns that it could ultimately threaten our survival. Even two of the frontier model leaders, OpenAI and Anthropic, are calling for a slowdown in AI development now. I’m not convinced, however, that their change in tone has much to do with concerns about the future of the human race. It might instead have something to do with…

Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses.At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The feature, designed for WhatsApp last year, allows the glasses’ AI assistant to get to know you and fulfill your requests without Meta accessing any of your data.“Most of the time, glasses are helping you see well, protecting your eyes and complementing your look, and that’s it,” Meta wrote in its press release, perhaps somewhat underselling the…

The scholars explore these topics in “How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” published this month by Routledge. The authors are Duarte, a principal research scientist and associate director of the MIT Senseable City Lab; Mazzarello, a research scientist and lead of MIT Senseable City Lab global initiatives; Carlo Ratti, a professor of the practice and founder and director of the MIT Senseable City Lab; and Fan Zhang, an assistant professor at the Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS at Peking University.“Great urbanists such as Kevin Lynch and Willian H. Whyte showed us the extraordinary value of ‘looking’ at…

by Lisa Stiffler on Sep 23, 2026 at 10:55 amSeptember 23, 2026 at 11:02 am Lauren Kiel, left, global head of community innovation for Bloomberg Media, and Ryan Spies, managing director of sustainability for Alaska Air Group. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) NEW YORK — With 2.5% profit margins and the harsh reality of aviation physics, Alaska Air Group needs to be strategic when betting on low-carbon technology. That includes partnering with Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures on sustainable aviation fuel and backing companies developing fuel-efficient aircraft. Those were two takeaways from Ryan Spies, Alaska Air’s managing director of sustainability,…

Every vendor event has a center of gravity, and at theCUBE Research’s AI ROI in Contact Center Summit, it wasn’t a product. It was a metric this industry is finally ready to abandon. I co-hosted the summit recently with Bob Laliberte (pictured, left), principal analyst at theCUBE Research, and spoke with executives from Cisco Systems Inc., Five9 Inc., Zoom Communications Inc., Talkdesk Inc., and Converged Technology Professionals, an implementation partner. One of the event’s notable aspects was its focus not only on artificial intelligence, now table stakes, but also on how consistently vendors pushed back on the vocabulary, metrics and…

AI enables marketers to publish a lot of content quickly. But keeping up with fact-checking and copy editing can be a challenge. And mistakes erode credibility.

Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving – sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Report URI is identifying malware-infected machines within orgs, all due to CSP reporting. It's a super cool use of the technology, and I'm sure there's an awesome potential for it that neither of us has really thought about yet. Plus, the crazy rate of malicious browser extensions he's picking up with help from "Rory", his local OpenClaw instance.

AMD just crossed a milestone that once belonged to a tiny club of tech giants: a $1 trillion market cap. A nearly 10% stock surge on Monday pushed shares past $613, making AMD the fourth US chipmaker in history to hit thirteen figures. What fueled this sudden leap? Wall Street has finally accepted a simple truth: the AI boom cannot rely on just one supplier. Over the past year, AMD stopped selling standalone processors and started pitching entire data center systems- bundling GPUs, CPUs, and networking gear into complete AI setups. At the same time, its server chips are quietly…

Who gets to tell the military “no”?That question has become even more important after the Pentagon pushed AI companies to loosen limits on how their technology may be used in war — including how much human control must remain over autonomous weapons. When Anthropic said no, it lost a major government deal. OpenAI stepped in, embracing the Pentagon’s more flexible standard instead. Now, thanks to new reporting from The Intercept, we’re getting a better look at what those negotiations actually entailed.The OpenAI-Pentagon agreement included specific language on the type of AI models the DOD would receive: “OpenAI models that are…

A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker’s server, Cisco Talos said on September 22. The models can choose to steal Windows credentials, saved browser passwords, and crypto wallet data. Talos has not seen this setup work from start to finish, and the public version of the malware does not work as it is. Talos found the malware with CAIRN, an open-source tool it released the same day to hunt for malware that uses AI services. The malware is at least three months old, because Talos’s analysis of…