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Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Agentforce Coworker, an automation tool built into several of the company’s cloud services. Most of the new features are generally available today. The rest will launch by year’s end. Salesforce’s first new agent, Hunter, helps business-to-business salespeople find leads and craft outreach emails. It can also streamline the subsequent phases of the deal-making workflow. Salesforce says Hunter automates tasks such as preparing salespeople for presentations and creating proposals. Some business-to-business…
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring technology. With funding from the U.S. Army’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCC), Lincoln Laboratory and MGH developed AI-GUIDE and are in the process of transferring the prototype to the startup company AutonomUS Medical Technologies, Inc.”This recognition reflects what effective technology transfer looks like — aligning the Army’s operational need with Mass General’s clinical expertise…
Frank X. Shaw addresses the media at Microsoft on May 18, 2025, in advance of the Build conference. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s the end of an era at Microsoft: Frank X. Shaw, the executive who oversaw the tech giant’s communications for nearly three decades, first at an external agency and for the last 17 years as one of its senior leaders, is leaving at the end of the year. Shaw, 64, said he’s not retiring, although he doesn’t have another job lined up. He plans to stop working for a while, do some of the things he hasn’t…
I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have you believe. There's the stat I talk about where it's had literally 0% impact on insurance payouts, the Dutch bloke who's now being tracked down based on his voice and Scott's MAG breach teardown that ultimately pointed to exposed keys rather than anything sophisticated. Then the mention in there about the Aussie headline where ChatGPT has hacked a court system down here when, in fact, a bloke…
Data governance tools can improve trust and protect sensitive information. But which platform fits your stack, scale, and working style in 2026? Numerous data governance conversations start with a feature list. But that choice often creates trouble. Teams compare catalogs and lineage maps. They debate policy engines and AI assistants. Yet they have not defined the problem. A team may buy an enterprise platform for a narrow need. Another may choose open source without enough engineering support. Months later, people ignore the tool. The original data issue remains. A poor match often does. The platform may not fit the data…
No matter how you feel about the iPhone Duo and its exorbitant $1,999 price, its existence proves that Apple has finally figured out how to make a foldable. And on a broader level, it also shows that Apple isn’t too proud to follow in the footsteps of Samsung and other Android phone makers. If that’s the case, I’m hoping Apple also isn’t afraid to copy Samsung’s smaller Z Flip phones, which flip down horizontally, and larger devices like Lenovo’s X1 Fold and ASUS’s ZenBook Fold 17. An “iPhone Flip” could potentially satisfy people demanding a new iPhone Mini, and a future…
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Cyber Operations Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals. “The cybersecurity skills of AI models means that AI has collapsed the labor and tooling gap that used to separate well-resourced, state-sponsored operations from individual operators,” Anthropic said. “The use of AI…
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand, you seem to agree that the companies are being reckless; on the other hand, you’ve made clear that you think the “AI will cause the end of civilization” debate is senseless.My whole career, I’ve been trying to say the same thing from different angles. We wrote our stochastic parrot paper in 2021 for this reason. OpenAI had claimed GPT-2 was too powerful to release. It was so hyped up. And we were saying, you’re asking…
Google’s September 2026 Android security update addresses 180 vulnerabilities across the operating system, including critical flaws that could allow attackers to execute code remotely without user interaction. The update is divided between two security patch levels. The Sept. 1 release fixes 95 vulnerabilities across Android Runtime, Framework, System, Setup Wizard and several Project Mainline components. The Sept. 5 level adds another 85 fixes covering the Linux kernel, Android TV and components from chip and hardware vendors. Google said the most serious issue is a critical flaw in the System component that could enable remote code execution without requiring additional privileges…
At its Surprise & Shine event on Sept. 9, Apple revealed its newest devices, including its latest smartwatches. Here’s how the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 compare. The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are premium wearables running the company’s WatchOS 27 software, which have plenty of features that interact with paired iPhones and a growing number that work even when apart (handy when out on a run). The Series 12 is the standard model, while the Ultra 4 is the higher-end version with more durability and features. This year, the Apple…