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Google LLC said today it’s letting users link some of their favorite, most often-used applications with AI Mode, its conversational search tool powered by artificial intelligence, initially supporting Canva, Instacart and YouTube. The update, announced in a brief blog post by Google, marks a significant expansion of AI Mode, which now does much more than just answering questions. With these app integrations, AI Mode now can complete some basic tasks for users. The company seems to be hoping that this will be enough to persuade more people to start using AI mode for things such as shopping and planning. It…

The staff member allegedly made over $100,000 on Kalshi. John Moore/Getty Images Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator, has been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered he bet on dozens of the President’s speeches on Kalshi, ABC News reports. Officials from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the body that currently oversees betting platforms like Kalshi, are reportedly willing to settle with Perez if he returns his winnings. Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on the length of President Trump’s speeches, including the State of the Union address, a speech at the World…

Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used to manage a wide range of critical infrastructure, including manufacturing, energy, transportation, water treatment, and industrial operations, among others. Their environments are regulated for physical processes and equipment, placing them in high value targets for cybercriminals and advanced threat groups. But standard cybersecurity solutions don’t work well in an industrial environment because Industrial Systems put more emphasis on uptime, reliability, and safety than on regular updates and the speed of security changes.It’s here that deception technology takes on its next level of significance. Realistic decoys, traps, and simulated industrial assets…

With the launch of the $1.5 billion enterprise venture Ode, Anthropic and private equity giants are betting the real AI fortune lies in deployment, not just the models. If you’ve been tracking the AI race, you’ve likely watched the exhausting, multi-billion-dollar battle over who can build the smartest frontier model. But a massive new $1.5 billion venture suggests the smart money is quietly changing its bet. Anthropic, alongside private equity titans Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman, has officially launched “Ode,” a standalone enterprise AI services firm built on their acquisition of Fractional AI. Backed by a heavy-hitting investor consortium including…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a bug in Apple’s iCloud Hide My Email tool that appeared to reveal users’ real email addresses to anyone who wanted to find them. On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in California, Alvarez v. Apple Inc., accusing Apple of false advertising, fraud and breach of contract for selling a privacy perk that it allegedly could not deliver.Read more: Best iPhones of 2026The Hide My Email feature, which lets you generate a temporary, anonymized email address with the iCloud.com domain, is often used to protect privacy when signing up for subscriptions or logging into new or unverified…

We are currently witnessing a profound architectural inversion in the world of enterprise computing that will define the next decade of corporate IT strategy. For the better part of a decade, conventional IT wisdom dictated that all significant computing workloads would eventually and inevitably migrate to massive, centralized public clouds. It was viewed as an unstoppable force, a gravitational pull that would eventually consume every corporate data center. However, the rapid maturation of artificial intelligence—and the harsh realities of deploying it at scale – is aggressively breaking that model and rewriting the rules of the enterprise backbone. AI has officially…

Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority’s employees into an office to get their passwords reset in person. Both the NCA and the CPS put TfL’s losses and recovery costs at £29 million. Both pleaded guilty on 22 June 2026, the day their trial was due to start. The charge was Section 3ZA of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, the Act’s most…

If you have ever lost a great ChatGPT answer somewhere in your endless chat history, that headache is finally over. OpenAI has rolled out a major search upgrade that lets you find old chats, projects, documents, and images all from one place. Before this update, the sidebar search only pulled up past conversations, leaving uploaded files, projects, and generated images completely out of reach. The new search option is now available across web, iOS, and Android, on every ChatGPT plan, including free accounts. Search across your chats just got faster and more powerful 🔎From the sidebar, you can search chats,…

Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate 3D models of those designs, which they can put through virtual crash or durability tests. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have now developed a system that can teach a vision-language model to automatically convert 2D designs into CAD programs that are much more accurate and functional compared to other approaches, while using only a fraction of the computation.By improving the performance and efficiency of AI-driven CAD…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower. It’s this time of the year again, when Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower releases its latest salary data for over 420 common occupations in the domestic economy. Unfortunately, due to the scope of the task, there is a one-year lag in these statistics (they are accurate as of Jun 2025). Though salaries do not change more than a few per cent over 12 months, so it remains pretty valid. In 57 cases, the gross median annual pay has reached over S$100,000…