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GenAI.mil saw more than 2 million users in one week, top DOD official says

DANIEL SLIM / Contributor / Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW September 23, 2026 10:00 PM ET Defense Department Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Cameron Stanley also said that “unilateral disarmament is the wrong approach” when it comes to calls for a slowdown in AI development. * Defense * Artificial

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More than 40% of enterprise users have installed AI-powered browser extensions: Akamai Report

As organisations deploy agentic AI to execute tasks across APIs and systems, enterprises face a fundamental shift in risk. Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today released its latest State of the Internet (SOTI) Security report focused on emerging AI challenges. Targeted to a CISO audience, Speed, Scale, and Nonhuman Identity: The Agentic

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New Relic report finds high-impact IT outages drain $74 million annually from businesses

New Relic recently released its 2026 Observability Forecast, the industry’s most comprehensive report on the state of observability in the AI era. Surveying 2,575 engineering and IT leaders and practitioners across 24 countries and 12 industries, the report highlights key focus areas, challenges, and trends influencing observability investments.

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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption

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Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released “much earlier” than the end of the year

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Goa Government introduces AI Chatbot on WhatsApp to enhance citizen service delivery

Building on the success of the AI-powered Web Chatbot on the Goa Online portal, the Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communications (DITE&C), in collaboration with Goa Electronics Limited (GEL), has launched the AI-powered WhatsApp Chatbot for Goa Online services. This initiative extends government services to WhatsApp, further

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OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts

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SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world

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Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their “visual data” used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US

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During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend

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An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products released at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the “pervert glasses” backlash, more

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users

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