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This week, Cisco introduced Antares — a family of open-weight small language models designed to help localize known vulnerabilities inside an organization’s own infrastructure, at a fraction of the cost of running that work through a frontier model. For partners, the opportunity starts with what they can build around it. Because Antares is being released as an open-weight capability, partners can use it as a foundation for services like assessments, advisory work, managed workflows, and AI-enabled vulnerability operations that help customers move from finding issues to acting on them. Why this matters to customers According to Talos, last year more…
Google is unveiling the Pixel 11 family on August 12, and ahead of that, the company’s VP of Devices and Services Shakil Barkat has confirmed what we were all fearing: price hikes are coming. Barkat has unsurprisingly revealed that, like all other consumer tech companies, Google is also facing an unprecedented surge in costs, noting that there’s never been an increase in memory prices quite like this one. The exec says the company has “shielded” its customers from “supply fluctuations for as long as possible”, but the “economics have fundamentally shifted”. So, the entire Pixel family will have to endure…
Researchers at Seoul National University and the University of Seoul have developed a programmable photonic integrated circuit that can slow light whenever needed. The team was led by Professors Namkyoo Park and Sunkyu Yu of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, working with Professor Xianji Piao of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Seoul. Slowing Light Could Help Solve a Computing Bottleneck The rapid growth of generative AI and large scale AI models has sharply increased the amount of computing power required by data centers and servers. Conventional electronic semiconductors…
The Modern Bank Heists in 2026 report, based on a survey of 48 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from financial institutions worldwide, reveals that attackers are no longer simply stealing data. Instead, they are actively disrupting defenders during live incidents, using artificial intelligence to increase the speed, scale and sophistication of attacks. Among the report’s key findings: 89% of organisations reported a year-on-year increase in AI-enabled attacks. 67% experienced “counter incident response”, where attackers actively interfered with security teams during live investigations. 41% suffered destructive cyberattacks over the past year. 55% reported an increase in API-based attacks. 46% experienced attempts to steal…
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would block federally regulated event contracts tied to sports competitions and casino-style games. The proposal, H.R. 9856, would amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prevent those contracts from being listed, cleared, or traded through registered entities if it becomes law. If they look like sports betting and act like sports betting, they should be treated like sports betting.That’s why @MarkAmodeiNV2 and I introduced the Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, a bipartisan bill to stop federally regulated trading platforms from offering sports… pic.twitter.com/bTrXMLdIL9— Rep. Steven Horsford (@RepHorsford) July 23, 2026 The…
On the office wall behind Ava Amini, a whiteboard is covered with a dense sprawl of graphs, equations and mathematical symbols. It’s the kind of background detail a film director might use to establish, at a glance, that the scene belongs to a scientist working at the far edges of human understanding. The impression is not entirely misleading. As principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA, and co-lead of Project Ex Vivo, Amini works at the meeting point of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cancer biology and biophysics. But if the science behind this role is complex, her manner is…
Microsoft has expanded its partnerships with Databricks and French AI company Mistral, covering Azure usage, custom processors, European computing capacity, and AI model distribution.Databricks said its expanded Microsoft partnership will continue into the 2030s. The data and AI software company will increase its use of Azure for its internal business operations and analytics, while also moving more workloads onto Microsoft-designed processors.Databricks will use Azure Databricks to run its core business operations and analytics and to build its unified lakehouse.“With Databricks Genie and Unity AI Gateway deeply integrated across Microsoft’s products, we’re helping enterprises unify their data and ground AI in…
AI is changing cybercrime, but SMB cyber readiness still largely depends on closing the familiar gaps 03 Jul 2026 • , 5 min. read AI is changing attackers’ toolkits. It can help criminals write better lures, scale social engineering and speed up reconnaissance, all while generally lowering the barrier to entry for less skilled attackers. Organizations are right to pay attention, especially because malicious use of AI makes old gaps a more urgent test of an organization’s cyber readiness. Meanwhile, the first points of failure remain strikingly familiar and typically involve the usual suspects, such as a phishing link that…
Organizations managing IoT at scale face a critical business challenge: every hour of equipment downtime costs thousands in lost revenue, while untapped sensor data represents missed opportunities for operational optimization. Research shows that digital maintenance and reliability transformations can increase asset availability by 5–15 percent and reduce maintenance costs by 18–25 percent (McKinsey), translating to significant recovered revenue annually. Yet many organizations face a perceived trade-off: invest in real-time systems that can’t handle historical analysis or build batch pipelines that miss critical anomalies. Meanwhile, complex analytics tools lock insights behind SQL expertise, leaving business stakeholders unable to access the data…
World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month lockup sale of World’s token, WLD. Lockup periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period of time. The year-long lockup demonstrates investors’ “long-term commitment to World’s continued growth and utility,” the company said Friday in a press release. The money will go to the World Foundation, an exempted limited guarantee foundation based in the Cayman Islands, created to steward the expansion of World’s network. The sale’s lead…