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Financial services firm admits it may mean fewer staff

US banking giant Citi has revved the Stylus Workspaces AI platform it has been rolling out to employees, touting that it is "now powered by agentic AI."…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Last year, the AI video company Runway joined forces with the major Hollywood studio Lionsgate in a partnership the pair hoped would result in AI-generated scenes and even potentially full-length movies. But the project has hit a snag. According to a report by The Wrap, the past 12 months have been unproductive. Lionsgate distributes Hollywood blockbusters including The Hunger Games, John Wick, The Twilight Saga, and Saw franchises. But despite its huge catalog, it is simply not enough for the AI to produce quality content. "The Lionsgate catalog is too small to create a model," a source tells The Wrap. "In fact, the Disney catalog is too small to create a model." Despite Runway being one of the leading names in AI video, the technology needs a copious amount of data to produce AI-generated films. It is the reason AI has proven to be such an unpopular technology, as AI firms help themselves to any type of media they can get their hands on -- whether it has copyright protections or not. Another issue is the rights of actors and the model for remuneration if their likeness appears in an AI-generated clip. It is a legal gray area with no clear path.

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Mandiant CTO anticipates 'hearing about this campaign for the next one to two years'

Unknown intruders – likely China-linked spies – have broken into "numerous" enterprise networks since March and deployed backdoors, providing access for their long-term IP and other sensitive data stealing missions, all the while remaining undetected on average for 393 days, according to Google Threat Intelligence.…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told The Verge today that the company plans to transform Edge into an "agentic browser" where Copilot controls tabs, navigates websites and completes tasks while users watch. Unlike The Browser Company's new Dia browser, Microsoft will integrate these capabilities directly into Edge. Suleyman described Copilot opening tabs, reading multiple pages simultaneously and performing research transparently in real-time. The AI visits websites directly, preserving publisher traffic. Current Copilot features include tab navigation, page scrolling and content highlighting. Users will have the option to disable AI features entirely. Suleyman predicted that within years, AI companions will handle most browsing tasks while users provide oversight and feedback.

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Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report

Google Cloud's 2025 DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report is out, claiming that since 90 percent of respondents now make some use of AI for software development, the question is not whether to adopt it but how to realize its value.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank on Tuesday announced plans for five new artificial intelligence data centers in the United States to build out their ambitious Stargate project. [...] ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on Tuesday it will open three new sites with Oracle in Shackelford County, Texas, Dona Ana County, New Mexico and an undisclosed site in the Midwest. Two more data center sites will be built in Lordstown, Ohio and Milam County, Texas by OpenAI, Japan's SoftBank and a SoftBank affiliate. The new sites, the Oracle-OpenAI site expansion in Abilene, Texas, and the ongoing projects with CoreWeave will bring Stargate's total data center capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts and more than $400 billion in investment over the next three years, OpenAI said. The $500 billion project was intended to generate 10 gigawatts in total data center capacity. "AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. The Tuesday's announcement, expected to create 25,000 onsite jobs, follows Nvidia saying on Monday that it will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply data center chips. OpenAI and partners plan to use debt financing to lease chips for the Stargate project, people familiar with the matter said.

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After air passenger travel hit across the Atlantic, organized crime agency strikes

Breaking The UK's National Crime Agency has arrested a man as part of an investigation into a ransomware attack that disrupted airports around the world last weekend.…

Attackers hit jackpot after targeting Boyd Gaming

Hotel and casino operator Boyd Gaming has disclosed a cyberattack to US regulators, warning that hackers may have stolen personal information belonging to employees and other individuals.…

Report uncovers widespread clock blocking, coffee badging

UK workers totally understand why bosses want to get them back into the office – but would still jump ship if they were forced to give up remote working.…