Google released its first new smart speaker in six years, the Google Home Speaker, featuring 360-degree audio and Gemini generative AI integration. ZDNET's early testing shows promising sound quality …
Job postings for forward deployed engineers surged 1,165% last year, but AI experts like Andrew Ng argue that AI engineers offer more career potential and business value. The debate highlights the nee…
Enterprise IT leaders from PwC and NBCUniversal shared strategies for deploying AI agents with both speed and caution at a Section conference, emphasizing human-led processes, rapid experimentation, a…
Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. ARD aims to solve the d…
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory to build a profile from past chats, including entire chat history and implicit preferences, but old or irrelevant details can distort future AI answers. The featur…
ZDNET's Jason Cipriani tested the new Siri AI on a Mac, finding it more useful than the old version but still prone to mistakes. The AI is available by waitlist for supported beta devices, and Apple n…
IOS 27 introduces several overlooked features that improve the user experience on older iPhones, including the ability to save a video frame as a photo, lock screen enhancements with a smaller clock a…
Chainguard launched the Athena coalition, a group of over two dozen companies including JPMorgan Chase and Cisco, to use AI to find and fix open-source software vulnerabilities before attackers can ex…
AI can assist Linux users with system management tasks such as creating bash scripts, parsing log files, understanding journalctl output, and generating iptables firewall rules, helping newcomers and …
Android already has four of the new iOS 27 features, including Siri AI and generative photo editing, but the author wishes Android would steal two more: deeper ecosystem integration and a feature not …
Microsoft released Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 3 as a beta preview at Build 2026, introducing paravirtualization to give Linux direct access to GPUs and NPUs without performance overhead. The up…
Anthropic pulled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models worldwide after the US government issued an export directive citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. The company disput…
A ZDNET writer used ChatGPT to build a Python script that removes yellow backgrounds from scanned PDF sheet music, after finding manual editing too fiddly and AI-based PDF conversion non-deterministic…
More than 30% of US adults own fitness wearables, but doctors struggle to interpret the data due to a lack of clinical standards and integration with electronic health records. Cardiologist Dr. David …
Visa and OpenAI announced a partnership to secure AI-prompted transactions through Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, aiming to bring agentic commerce into the mainstream. The collaboration will integrate…
Anthropic released Fable 5, a restricted version of its powerful Mythos AI tool, but faced backlash after researchers discovered the system silently downgraded to a less capable model when processing …
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents by 2027 due to governance gaps discovered after production incidents. At the Snowflake Summit, digital leaders from…
Apple will add Bluetooth Channel Sounding support to iPhones with the iOS 27 update, enabling centimeter-level accuracy for Find My device tracking with third-party accessories like headphones, tracke…
Google Messages users can adjust nine key settings to improve privacy, security, and reduce distractions on any new Android phone. The changes include disabling sensitive content warnings, uninstallin…
AI agents are evolving from simple chatbots into autonomous digital workers that can take action on applications and data, raising significant security and governance concerns. Experts at the Snowflak…