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Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define the category — yet a majority of enterprises have already
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Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most
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Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none of them use today; a majority
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In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company’s robotaxi program. New cities are being added, more miles are being driven, and more people are experiencing Tesla’s unsupervised vehicles. But Musk’s typical bullishness seemed to be
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. New Tariffs Incoming: European authorities designated Google as a "gatekeeper" in 2023, requiring the US corporation to address its anti-competitive practices in the online search market. Now, the EU has begun imposing
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Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of third-party image,
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This post was co-written with Motorway and the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. Motorway, a UK-based online car marketplace, runs a daily auction where up to 8,000 dealers bid on up to 2,500 vehicles. Motorway worked with AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) to
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Unisys has released a new global report, “Unisys AI & Cloud Insights Report 2026: The benchmarks, the gaps, and what to do next,” which examines how organisations are turning AI and cloud investments into measurable outcomes amid rising cybersecurity concerns. Findings indicate organisations are at an inflection point: confidence in
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TL;DR Alphabet’s contracted future spending hit $811B at end of Q2, up ~$500B from Q1. It covers AI infrastructure supply agreements. Capex guidance raised to $195-$205B for 2026. Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from
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The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea
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TL;DR Apple’s updated privacy policy for the Store app reveals a coming “Virtual Shopping Assistant.” It collects chat, device, and location data. Not live yet. Partial opt-out only. Apple is preparing to add an AI-powered shopping assistant to the Apple Store app, according to a privacy policy update
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TL;DR GPS jamming in Ukraine is driving demand for alternative drone navigation. Q-CTRL (quantum), ASIO (vision), and ANELLO (laser gyro) showed solutions at Farnborough. GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made
