Google will remove Assistant as an option in September, leaving Gemini as the only official Android digital assistant, but Gemini's hands-free voice calling via Android Auto remains unreliable, with u…
Microsoft will merge its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single unified app starting in mid-September, allowing sign-in with personal, work, or school accounts. The company will …
A ZDNET survey of 138 developers found that 75% prefer Anthropic's Claude Code over OpenAI's Codex for AI-assisted coding, with 22% using both tools. Respondents cited Claude Code's superior context h…
Workday president of product and technology Gerrit Kazmaier and principal strategist Julie Colwell say the rise of agentic AI is shifting labor demand from specialists to polymaths—professionals with …
Google's Pixel 11 Pro series introduces HiLight, a pulsing LED indicator on the camera bump that replaces the temperature sensor and signals incoming calls and Gemini interactions, with accessibility …
Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, agentic coding tools available for about 18 months, are more similar than different, and choosing between them depends on workflow and ecosystem rather than benchmarks, a…
Software factories are returning, driven by AI-generated code, with leading companies like Anthropic, Cognition, Cursor, Factory, Google, GitHub, OpenAI, and Ramp converging on a similar automated dev…
ZDNET's Sabrina Ortiz reports that AI-generated flyers are often poorly designed, but clear prompts and design limits can produce better results. She provides 8 tips, including consulting a graphic de…
Cloudflare data shows desktop Linux usage surged to 22% on Monday, July 6, 2026, as workers returned after the July 4 holiday, with Linux reaching 6.4% of North American desktop operating systems in J…
Anthropic's new Claude Cowork Record-a-Skill feature enabled ZDNET editor David Gewirtz to reduce a research task from hours to 30 minutes by turning narrated screen recordings into reusable skills, b…
Microsoft's Windows boss Pavan Davuluri issued a progress report on the company's commitment to improve Windows quality, acknowledging that the company had been ignoring customer feedback for years. T…
Cybersecurity leaders say curiosity-led critical thinking, instinctive qualities above automation, and the ability to turn ambiguous signals into risk-based decisions are more valuable than certificat…
Microsoft Windows boss Pavan Davuluri acknowledged in a March open letter that Windows 11 has become too annoying due to monetization efforts, and in a July 31 progress report he outlined fixes for Fi…
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is outpacing human remediation, creating a growing backlog of security flaws that enterprises struggle to manage. Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped a reco…
CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report, published Monday, warns that AI is both a weapon and a target, with AI agent-triggered leads now 2.5 times more numerous than manual leads, and one LLMJacking…
Salesforce's State of Commerce report, based on a survey of 3,450 commerce professionals and 4,690 consumers plus behavioral data from over 1.5 billion shoppers, found that agentic AI use in shopping …
ZDNET reports that Anthropic's Claude AI conversations were briefly accessible via a Google dork, prompting the company to fix the indexing issue. The article outlines privacy controls for ChatGPT, Ge…
Google's Chrome security team used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 security bugs in 60 days, surpassing the total number of bugs fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. The AI workflow, detaile…
Aston Martin Aramco F1 CIO Fabrizio Pilotti told ZDNET that human expertise remains central to Formula One performance in the AI age, with handcraft and experienced professionals guiding data-powered …
ZDNET reported that Anthropic's Claude AI conversations were temporarily exposed through Google search indexing, prompting the company to fix the issue. The article outlines privacy controls for major…