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Apple’s AI Wake-Up Call: Tim Cook Tells Staff “We Must Win This”

Apple’s AI Wake-Up Call: Tim Cook Tells Staff “We Must Win This”

Apple CEO rallies employees in all-hands meeting, promising deeper AI investment and admitting they’re late—again Image by Hc Digital on Unsplash Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook did something he doesn’t often do: he got personal. In an hourlong all-hands meeting with employees, Cook reportedly laid it all out. The message was clear—Apple needs to […]

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Deep Cogito Just Dropped 4 New AI Models That Can Actually Learn to Think Better

Deep Cogito Just Dropped 4 New AI Models That Can Actually Learn to Think Better

Image by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Deep Cogito, a company that’s been quietly building some of the most intriguing brain-inspired AI out there, just made a bold move: they’ve open-sourced not one, but four new hybrid reasoning models—and they come with something surprisingly human-like. Intuition. Yep, you read that right. These models don’t just process

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OpenAI Quietly Pulls ChatGPT Browsing Tool After Private Chats Show Up in Google Search

OpenAI Quietly Pulls ChatGPT Browsing Tool After Private Chats Show Up in Google Search

Photo by Fer Troulik on Unsplash A major privacy hiccup just prompted OpenAI to quietly step back from one of its high-profile features. If you’ve ever used ChatGPT’s “Browse with Bing” tool to gather info from the web, here’s something that might make you pause: OpenAI has temporarily yanked that feature after private user conversations

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Why the U.S. Is Now Pushing Open-Source AI—and What That Really Means

Why the U.S. Is Now Pushing Open-Source AI—and What That Really Means

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, we’re no longer just talking about powerful tools built by big companies behind closed doors. There’s been a significant shift, and it’s one that caught my attention: open-source AI is now a national priority in the United States. Yes, open-source.

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Google’s Medal-Winning Gemini 2.5 AI Is Now Public — But There’s a Twist You Should Know

Google’s Medal-Winning Gemini 2.5 AI Is Now Public — But There’s a Twist You Should Know

Photo by Jorge Mallo on Unsplash Google has just dropped something big: its Gemini 2.5 “Deep Think” AI is officially out for public use. Yes, the same powerful model that recently snagged medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics. But—there’s a catch, and it’s not just about access. What’s Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’? Photo by

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OpenAI Is Building a Gigantic AI Data Center in Texas with Oracle — And It’s Already Running Early Workloads

OpenAI Is Building a Gigantic AI Data Center in Texas with Oracle — And It’s Already Running Early Workloads

Backed by a $30B-a-year deal, the 5 GW Stargate project in Abilene is bringing AI infrastructure to the Big Country and powering OpenAI’s next-gen ambitions. Photo by Leif Christoph Gottwald on Unsplash If you told someone a few years ago that a 5-gigawatt AI data center would be taking shape in a small Texas city

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ToolShell and the SharePoint Vulnerability Putting Governments and Corporations at Risk: What You Need to Know Now

ToolShell and the SharePoint Vulnerability Putting Governments and Corporations at Risk: What You Need to Know Now

Photo by Philip Oroni on Unsplash So here’s the situation: a major security flaw in Microsoft SharePoint—used by over 400,000 organizations and 80% of Fortune 500 companies—is being actively exploited. And attackers aren’t just poking around. They’re fully inside networks, stealing data, planting backdoors, and bypassing even multi-factor authentication. This wave of attacks has a

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When Smart Meters Become Spy Tools: How a California Utility’s Data Sharing Sparked Privacy Lawsuits and Fear

When Smart Meters Become Spy Tools: How a California Utility’s Data Sharing Sparked Privacy Lawsuits and Fear

Image by NASA from Unsplash In Sacramento, privacy isn’t just a buzzword — it’s the center of a brewing legal battle that could affect how your monthly electric bill could land you in handcuffs. Let me explain. Back in 2020, Alfonso Nguyen watched in shock as two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies pulled up to his

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VMware Users Left Hanging on Critical Security Patches as Broadcom Subscription Push Raises Concerns

VMware Users Left Hanging on Critical Security Patches as Broadcom Subscription Push Raises Concerns

A software patch delay has left some perpetual license owners exposed, renewing frustration with Broadcom’s post-acquisition moves Photo by Fernando Hernandez on Unsplash Let’s talk about something unsettling if you depend on VMware to keep your servers or environments secure: critical patches that aren’t reaching everyone who needs them. And unfortunately, it’s not a glitch

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The White House’s Bold AI Plan: Deregulate, Dominate, and Outbuild China—But at What Cost?

The White House’s Bold AI Plan: Deregulate, Dominate, and Outbuild China—But at What Cost?

Photo by Tristan Gevaux on Unsplash Why the Trump administration’s AI strategy is drawing cheers from Big Tech and jeers from public interest groups worried about jobs, climate, and power bills On Wednesday, the White House dropped a 25-page document titled “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” and the title pretty much says it

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