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Character.AI files for bankruptcy
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various…
Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450
Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou o…
Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the in…
Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise for companies in Europ
Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, a version of its browser for companies and public bodies that must meet strict security and compliance requirements. The product pairs the…
Visa gets China’s approval to prepare a domestic card clearing business
Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People’s Bank of China approved its “Application to Prep…
How AI coding tools could amplify software supply-chain attacks
AI coding tools are changing how developers obtain and use software. But the growing volume of automated package installations is creating new challenges for enterprise security t…
ISACA survey finds 47% of women in tech have faced gender discrimination
Almost half of women working in tech, 47%, say they have been treated unfairly at work because of their gender, according to a new survey by ISACA. Two years ago, the figure was 4…
Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds
Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a sur…
UiPath’s Michael Atalla on AI slop, junior jobs and a Shaolin monk’s advice
UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead,…
Abu Dhabi will use Ultrahuman's smart ring know-how to boost its public health app
The Abu Dhabi government wants to incorporate wearables data into its public health app.
Naboo rebrands and says its AI cuts corporate event costs by 12%
Naboo, a Paris start-up that books and manages events for large companies, has rebranded, it said on Tuesday. It now pitches itself to procurement and finance teams as well as to …
Atlassian does not use Chinese AI models in production, its CEO says
Atlassian does not run any Chinese AI models in its products, chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes said in an interview with 20VC, the podcast hosted by investor Harry Stebbings. T…
Attackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges Up to 50°C by Hijacking Danfoss Controllers
Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several ret…
AI reputation management: what gets said about you inside ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google Gemini
When someone asks ChatGPT about you, they don’t get a page of links to scroll through. They get a one-paragraph summary instead. That answer is fast becoming your first impression…
X bundles Premium, Grok and Cursor under a single monthly subscription
SpaceXSI has announced a new subscription scheme that gives you access to Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium.
Two Critical MarkLogic Flaws Could Give Delegated Managers Persistent Admin Control
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the serve…
GitLab Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw That Could Let Unauthenticated Users Run Server Code
GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that could result in arbitrary code exec…
Microsoft reportedly is reorganising the leadership of its Azure cloud unit
Microsoft is reshaping the leadership of Azure, its cloud computing business, and merging some of its units, The Information reported on Monday. Scott Guthrie, who runs Microsoft’…
Ursula Von der Leyen wants AI to cut how often EU businesses report the same data
Ursula von der Leyen wants companies in the EU to provide officials with the same details just once, with AI helping public bodies use them. The European Commission president made…
NTT Data reportedly nears deal to build Anthropic’s first Japan data centre
TT Data Group is close to agreeing to a deal with Anthropic for a new data centre in Osaka, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. It would be the first site in…
Bumble reportedly in talks to go private at a valuation of about $1bn
Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to buy Bumble and take the dating app private, in a deal that would value it at about $1 billion. Reuters reported the talks, citing one sourc…
Character.AI files for bankruptcy as Disney bids $20M for some assets
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and lined up Disney as the first bidder for some of its assets, the company said on Monday. The AI chatbot platform, own…
US says China-linked hackers breached a regional organisation in Fiji
Hackers linked to China broke into the network of a regional group based in Suva, Fiji, the US Embassy in Fiji said on Monday. They stayed inside for several days in July and Augu…
AirConsole partners with Zeekr in its first Geely deal
AirConsole is coming to Zeekr, its first partner inside Geely Auto Group, with a demonstration at the Paris Motor Show before a rollout in select models by the end of 2026. The sa…