Google’s AI Overviews Led Users Astray, Reports Say Some Phone Numbers Are Scams Summary Google’s AI “Overviews” feature reportedly surfaced fraudulent customer-service phone numbers in multiple incidents. Users who clicked…
OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be? Summary WIRED examines reports that OpenAI is on the brink of a roughly $500 billion private valuation…
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Summary Adobe, creator of the PDF in 1993, is embedding generative AI deeply into Acrobat with the launch of Adobe Acrobat…
Secure AI Use Without the Blind Spots Summary This Dark Reading feature (Joan Goodchild, 18 Aug 2025) warns that many organisations are adopting AI rapidly while lacking formal, enforceable AI…
Finding your academic voice: faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition Summary Zhicheng Lin argues that modern AI-powered voice-to-text tools can dramatically speed up academic writing and reduce the physical…
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire Summary MIT’s NANDA report finds that US firms have poured roughly $35–40bn into generative AI initiatives while 95%…
Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show Summary Researchers say high accuracy scores for facial recognition are largely the product of controlled, laboratory-style benchmark…
Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells Summary Microsoft has added a COPILOT function to Excel, letting Microsoft 365 Copilot users run generative AI prompts directly inside cells. The…
Summary Taikonauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station used an on-board AI model — reported as a homegrown, open-source system referred to as “Wukong AI” — to assist planning for an…
PinePhone Pro canned in pursuit of RISC-V business Summary Pine64 has discontinued its higher-end PinePhone Pro as it shifts focus towards RISC-V hardware and some AI projects. The lower-end PinePhone…
