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As anticipation builds for Google’s upcoming Made by Google event, the tech giant has officially teased the much-anticipated Pixel 10 Pro Fold, ahead of its scheduled launch on August 20, 2025. The official teaser and all other leaks have provided an exciting glimpse of the design and key features of Google’s next flagship smartphone.  The Pixel 10 Pro Fold teasing video, recently released on Google’s official YouTube channel, gives us a first look at the device’s sleek and modern design. This design continues Google’s trend from the Pixel 9 series and keeps its iconic look fresh with subtle refinements. The…

Apple is again gearing up for another ambitious upgrade to Siri which will come through two major projects: Linwood and Glenwood. These projects aim to transform Siri from a basic voice assistant into a powerful AI companion and virtual assistant capable of matching the sophistication of language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The upgrades that will come from the aforementioned projects are a complete overhaul of Siri’s capabilities, meaning new features that enhance how users interact with their Apple devices will be introduced. They are slated for release in 2026. Linwood: Building a smarter Siri from within The Linwood project, according…

A recent outage affecting ChatGPT’s paid-subscribers in July 2025 has exposed fundamental vulnerabilities in AI service reliability. It reveals how deeply enterprise and individual users have become dependent on these systems while highlighting the inadequacy of the current infrastructure to support this dependence. The disruption, which coincided with the launch of a new premium feature called “Agent Mode,” disproportionately affected paid-subscribers and lasted for over two hours. For an enterprise technology promising constant availability, this incident highlighted the challenges of scaling AI systems that serve hundreds of millions worldwide. On July 21, 2025, ChatGPT had a partial outage that predominantly…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has moved to intensify regulation of the mobile tech giants Apple and Google by proposing a new “Strategic Market Status” (SMS) designation for both companies. This decision marks a major step under the UK’s recently enacted Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), aimed at addressing the significant dominance these tech giants have in the tech ecosystem. This regulation specifically applies to companies that have a “substantial and entrenched market power” in a digital activity in the UK, a “position of strategic significance” in that digital activity, and a global turnover exceeding £25…

Google DeepMind has introduced Aeneas, a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is designed to transform the study of ancient texts, particularly Roman inscriptions.  This generative AI model, building upon Google’s Ithaca helps historians by interpreting, restoring, and dating fragmentary Latin inscriptions more accurately and efficiently than ever before, ultimately helping uncover hidden patterns in these historical records. Ancient Roman inscriptions, found on monuments, everyday objects, and documents, offer invaluable insights into the lives and societies of the past. However, many inscriptions survive only as damaged fragments due to severe damage, making their interpretation a slow and difficult process for…

OpenAI has once again redefined the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) with the introduction of GPT-5, its most powerful and versatile AI model to date, with CEO Sam Altman saying it can provide “PhD-level” expertise in areas such as writing, coding, and in healthcare. Combining unprecedented speed, precision, and adaptability, the release of GPT-5 has set a new industry standard by seamlessly handling everything from everyday queries to complex, expert-level tasks. “GPT-3 sort of felt to me like talking to a high school student… 4 felt like you’re kind of talking to a college student,” Altman said in a briefing…

A recent study from leading AI research company Anthropic has revealed that contrary to popular belief, giving artificial intelligence (AI) models more time to “think” or reason through problems does not always lead to better performance. Instead, these models often perform worse the longer they deliberate on prompts.  For years, top researchers and major companies like OpenAI and Google have raced to make AI models large and more sophisticated, with the assumption that more processing power and deeper thinking would enable AI to solve more complex tasks, especially in fields like healthcare where AI’s input can be critical. The central…

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and the UK government have entered into a partnership that is designed to advance the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure as well as transform the country’s public services. The partnership was formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), but both parties say it is not legally binding. This agreement captures the UK’s ambition to become a global leader in AI while ensuring that the benefits of advanced technologies reach every corner of the country.  The MoU, signed by UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, outlines a…

A wave of cyberattacks linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers recently targeted vulnerable Microsoft SharePoint servers and affected several U.S. government agencies, Microsoft announced in a blog post. The cyberattacks, dated back to early July 2025, leveraged a set of zero-day vulnerabilities that were brought to fore and highlighted in the Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday Update. The hackers used these zero-day vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive systems and deploy malicious software.  How the cyberattacks went down Microsoft revealed in a detailed blog post that sophisticated hacking groups, identified as Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603, were behind the cyberattack…

New York-based Zip Security has raised $13.5 million in a Series A funding round to transform how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach and have cybersecurity solutions in their possessions. The latest investment, led by venture firm Ballistic Ventures and joined by Silver Buckshot, Mantis VC, General Catalyst, Human Capital, and Box Group, brings Zip Security’s total funding to $21 million. Zip Security’s mission, right from its launch in 2022, is to make best-in-class cybersecurity services accessible, automated, and affordable for SMBs that often lack dedicated security teams but face rising cyberthreats and rigid compliance requirements. In the U.S., up…