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In Brief 10:00 AM PDT · September 23, 2026 OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to mobile, allowing users to trigger workflows like drafting documents or summarizing emails. Plus and Pro users will be able to use the Work tab on their phone to create
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For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps, copying from one tab and pasting into another. Now, agentic workflows that are faster and allow employees to be even more productive are
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Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away from sensitive public sector data. Microsoft will spend
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As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of security for an AI-native world. We’re even seeing companies like
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Beats launches $350 Beats 360 headphones with customizable cushions. Image: Beats Beats 360 headphones cost $349.99 and offer swappable cushions, 32-hour battery life, stronger noise cancellation, and Apple and Android support. Sep 23, 2026 Beats is betting interchangeable cushions can make one pair of headphones work for more than
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The last time I interviewed Okta CEO Todd McKinnon, back in 2017, we spent time discussing why the vendor was steering clear of industry buzzwords. At that year's Oktane, I remember that I was surprised by the absence of AI and machine learning from the conversation, which made
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On Tuesday, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, an AI model the company claims performs similarly to Claude Fable 5.1 but at a lower cost. The release purportedly offers Mythos-like cybersecurity and biology capabilities. Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per
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Context is at the center of the conversation about enterprise AI these days. It's become increasingly clear that it plays a huge role in reducing token spend and increasing the accuracy of responses from Large Language Models (LLMs). Give the model sufficient context, and it is able to
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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September 23, 2026 Responsibility & Safety Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory Google Private AI Compute Team A technical update on our Private AI Compute architecture, which will enable persistent, cross-device AI memory with on-device privacy standards. AI is becoming more capable and intuitive — remembering what matters, understanding
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“Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Crusoe and
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* Microsoft, UK police, and partners disrupted EvilTokens PhaaS, arresting two suspects and seizing 200+ domains/sites * EvilTokens used AI to scale device‑code phishing, compromising 12,000 inboxes across 10,000 organizations globally * Platform ran like a startup with subscriptions, dashboards, and AI‑driven targeting; US victims hit hardest Two
