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As businesses put more sensitive customer information into artificial intelligence systems, how much company data should have to leave an enterprise platform for an outside AI model to process it? Salesforce is addressing that concern with Koa, its first reasoning model built specifically for customer relationship management work. The model gives companies a new way to run complex AI tasks without sending the CRM data involved in those requests to an external model provider. Announced at Dreamforce 2026, Koa was developed with Nvidia and built by further training its open-weight Nemotron 3 Super model. Salesforce controls Koa’s model weights and…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving beyond chatbots and software into machines that can drive, fly, operate industrial equipment, and make decisions in the physical world. And as this shift gathers pace, cybersecurity companies are facing a new problem, where an attack on these systems could affect more than confidential data because the compromised machine may be capable of acting in the real world. Italian cybersecurity company Exein is raising more money to tackle that risk. The Rome-based startup has secured $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation as it expands its security technology for what the AI…

Robotaxi companies are moving autonomous vehicles from controlled trials into everyday transport, but taking that technology into a new country requires more than proving a car can drive itself. It also has to adapt to local roads, regulations, and taxi operations. Waymo is now preparing for that next step in Japan. The Alphabet-owned company has agreed with Japanese taxi platform GO and operator Nihon Kotsu to launch a fully driverless commercial taxi service in Tokyo in 2027, with no safety driver inside the vehicle once public rides begin. The planned service would be Japan’s first commercial Level 4 driverless taxi…

Online scams are becoming harder to identify by appearance alone as AI tools are increasingly giving fraudsters an easier way to build convincing websites with clean designs and natural-sounding text. Security researchers at Malwarebytes recently uncovered a fake antivirus renewal page impersonating Avast that appeared to have been created with the help of AI. The website, which targeted users in Belgium, claimed that an Avast Premium Security subscription had automatically renewed for €129.99 and covered five devices. None of the information was real, and the page had no connection to Avast. The case shows how AI can lower the technical…

Cisco’s Identity Services Engine sits at the centre of how many organisations control who and what can connect to their networks, and this immediately makes a newly disclosed security flaw very serious. Cisco has confirmed that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-76460, a critical vulnerability that can let a remote attacker bypass authentication and gain unauthorised access to affected ISE systems. Disclosed in mid-September, Cisco gave it the maximum CVSS score of 10.0, as it affects Cisco Identity Services Engine and the Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector, or ISE-PIC, regardless of device configuration. More importantly, the company released patches and says…

Apple’s years-long dispute with European regulators over how much control it can maintain over the iPhone ecosystem has suffered another legal setback. The EU’s General Court has rejected the company’s challenge to key parts of its designation under the Digital Markets Act, leaving the App Store and iOS subject to some of the bloc’s strictest competition rules. The July 8 ruling upheld the European Commission’s decision to classify Apple as a “gatekeeper” for the App Store and iOS. Under the DMA, that status applies to large digital platforms considered important gateways between businesses and consumers, and comes with rules intended…

As AI models are given more freedom to browse the internet and complete tasks with less human supervision, developers are running into a growing problem – the models do things they were not instructed or authorized to do. OpenAI now says it will publicly report more of those incidents. The company has introduced a new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing cases of what it calls model misalignment. The framework is meant to replace OpenAI’s previous approach, which the company acknowledged had been inconsistent and sometimes too slow. OpenAI launched this framework alongside six reports detailing unexpected or concerning behavior…

Microsoft is moving to make human control a non-negotiable rule for every artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by its Microsoft AI division, as the company prepares for more capable systems that can act with greater independence. The company published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct in mid-September, setting out how its MAI models should be trained and governed, with one overriding requirement – humans must remain able to direct, correct, pause, and shut down the systems. Microsoft says any AI that cannot remain under meaningful human control should be rejected. While the code is not yet being used to…

OpenAI is trying to raise more money at a time when the cost of building advanced artificial intelligence is rising sharply. The ChatGPT-maker is considering a new private funding round that could value the company at about $1.5 trillion, even as CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an initial public offering (IPO) in 2026 because of growing AI safety concerns. The New York Times reported that discussions around the new round are still preliminary and could change. And so, if OpenAI reaches the proposed $1.5 trillion valuation, it would be about 76% higher than the $852 billion valuation…

The competition among leading AI companies has largely been defined by how quickly they can build and release more capable models. Now, a push by some of those same companies to deliberately slow that progress for safety reasons has created a new legal problem. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google are facing a proposed class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating U.S. antitrust law by agreeing to slow the development of their artificial intelligence systems. The case was filed on September 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by four consumers who pay for AI…