Meta's Muse AI assistant, launched this month, was found by ZDNET testing to be the worst for privacy among AI agents from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, after security experts flagged a zero-day vulne…
Google's Gemini Notebook now supports importing Google Play books as source material for AI analysis, enabling users to generate reports, quizzes, and podcasts from book content, as reported by ZDNET.…
OpenAI has issued an open letter warning that sophisticated AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread within months, calling for coordinated global cyber defense efforts. The warning fo…
ZDNET reporter Lance Whitney tested Perplexity's Personal Computer agentic AI feature in the Windows app, which recently expanded from Mac to Windows 11 and Windows 10, and found it capable of handlin…
ZDNET's David Gewirtz reports that ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's agentic AI tool, saved time across five small-business tasks including email scanning, data-to-slide conversion, and more, though results stil…
StackGen's State of Reliability Report, analyzing over 109,000 incidents, found that unregulated or semi-supervised AI agents caused cost overruns and data destruction in production systems, with at l…
Governance, accountability frameworks, and human-agent relationships—not technical capabilities—are the primary bottlenecks in scaling AI agents, according to ZDNET's analysis of surveys from Deloitte…
A Thomson Reuters survey of 1,800 professionals found that 91% say their organization is falling short of the value AI can deliver, with 41% of AI users lacking access to high-quality tools. Chief ope…
OpenAI launched a new skill on Tuesday that lets ChatGPT Work automatically sign users into their website accounts using cookies stored in its built-in cloud browser, available only for ChatGPT Pro an…
Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and lecturer at Stanford, identified four essential AI development skills based on an analysis of more than 10,000 job postings and interviews with experts, hiring manag…
Anthropic merged the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making memory two-way so that context from chat is available in Cowork and vice versa, with updates added as you chat and sensiti…
Only 15% of organizations have achieved scaled, orchestrated multi-agent deployments across customer service, IT, and engineering, according to a Deloitte survey of 501 senior business leaders. The su…
ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's agentic AI tool, can browse the web, manage files, and complete multi-step tasks, and is available to all ChatGPT users, including free tier users, though paid plans like the $2…
Canonical's Vice President of Engineering Jon Seager clarified that Ubuntu's growth rate on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is higher than its growth rate on native desktop installs, but only in ter…
A ZDNET report finds that AI-enabled layoffs are backfiring, with jobloss.ai tracking 126,000 US employees losing jobs between January 2025 and June 2026 due to AI-related factors. Research from Caree…
Google's AI Professional Certificate, an eight-course bundle on Coursera, is available for free and highly recommended by ZDNET after completing it. The program builds practical AI skills from fundame…
Mozilla has released Smart Window beta, a free AI tool for Firefox on macOS and Windows that lets users switch between three models (Fast, Flexible, Personal) and includes Memories for saved context. …
ZDNET's Jack Wallen recommends six Linux distributions that are unlikely to include AI, including Debian, which has explicitly stated that AI models without original training data are not DFSG-complia…
ZDNET's Jack Wallen tested Omarchy Quattro, a Linux distribution that integrates AI coding agents as first-class citizens, and reported that while it is powerful, it is not for beginners. The distro, …
Google LLC enables Gemini AI access to all Google Workspace data by default, including Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Chat, unless administrators disable it, according to a ZDNET report. The company state…