By Siôn Geschwindt UK-based fintech Cleo, known for its AI-powered budgeting app, has launched its most advanced product to date. Dubbed Cleo 3.0, the new version introduces features such as voice interaction, long-term memory, and improved reasoning capabilities. Barney Hussey-Yeo, Cleo’s founder and chief executive, said Cleo 3.0 is less chatbot and more “conversational AI money coach.” Users can now have real-time voice conversations with Cleo, which the company says makes financial help feel more natural and accessible. “Cleo remembers your goals, learns your habits, and delivers personalised financial guidance previously only available to the wealthy,” said Hussey-Yeo, who founded the fintech in…This story continues at The Next Web

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E-commerce giant Alibaba has unveiled Quark AI Glasses, the company’s first foray into the wearable technology market, CNBC reports. The glasses are powered by the company’s own AI model Qwen and digital assistant Quark.

They offer features such as hands-free calling, music streaming, real-time translation, meeting transcription, and a built-in camera. Users will also be able to navigate, compare prices on the Taobao e-commerce platform and pay with Alipay — services integrated through the Alibaba ecosystem.The launch means that Alibaba is now entering into competition with, among others, Meta (which has partnered with Ray-Ban) and Chinese Xiaomi, which also invested in AI glasses during the year.

Price and technical details have not yet been disclosed. The glasses are expected to be released in China before the end of the year.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Proton VPN has become the UK’s most downloaded free app, as Britons rush to bypass a new law requiring users to verify their age before accessing websites hosting adult content.  Proton VPN reported a staggering 1,400% surge in UK sign-ups almost immediately after the Online Safety Act came into effect. It is now Britain’s most downloaded free app, overtaking ChatGPT, according to Apple’s App Store rankings. The Switzerland-based virtual private network (VPN) said in a post on X that the surge in interest has been “sustained.” This contrasts with recent short-term spikes, such as when people in France temporarily lost…This story continues at The Next Web

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The surveillance-happy UK has hit another home run against personal privacy with a new set of laws that are stifling people’s digital experiences. Introduced as measures to protect child safety, these new rules are, of course, being applied in such a way as to damage legitimate internet use. 

That is probably what was intended in the first place.

The UK has introduced a legal requirement for internet age verification that is affecting social media services, websites, and apps worldwide. Apple itself has warned of flaws in the Act, saying last year: “The Online Safety Bill poses a serious threat to (this) protection and could put UK citizens at greater risk. Apple urges the government to amend the bill to protect strong end-to-end encryption for the benefit of all.”

Protecting young minds at the cost of privacy

The so-called Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect on July 25; it makes websites and apps responsible for preventing children from accessing “age-inappropriate content.” But rather than target the young people it ostensibly wants to protect, the law is affecting all users — spawning a vast and unregulated industry in various kinds of age verification services.

Now, you might think that having nurtured introduction of such services, the UK could also have legislated to ensure that those services are themselves secure. Unfortunately, a government big on rhetoric and low on substance did not choose to do so, which means websites and services are free to work with age verification partners, no matter how secure those services might be. 

But who protects you?

To make matters worse, these services are requesting highly confidential data, which means images of passports, people, dates of birth and other identifying information is being shared with companies that are under no legal obligation to keep that information secure. We know this is dangerous, as there have been multiple instances in which companies have failed to protect such information. For example, just last year, US ID verification service called AU10TIX exposed names, dates of birth, nationality, identification numbers, the type of documents uploaded (such as a drivers’ license) and images of those document. 

We’ve also seen stories that suggest potential connections between these ID services and foreign intelligence agencies. In other words, when verification takes place, there’s no saying who will see that key data, and no strong safeguards in place to ensure the information is not sold, stolen, or otherwise misused. It opens people up to all kinds of abuse and seems to contradict all the protection of GDPR.

Shut up

Put it all together and it is pretty clear that the Online Safety Act in the UK does nothing to keep people safe online. Not only this, but by removing anonymity the law makes it super-easy for repressively authoritarian governments such as that of the UK to ban conversations it doesn’t like, silence free speech, and quell criticism. 

Finally, of course, the badly-written law also seems liable to be used as yet another stick with which to force Apple to insert surveillance back doors into end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms. 

As you might expect, people are tangibly unhappy with the new law and have little trust in the online entities with whom they are being told to share their personal information. This is prompting a massive increase in VPN installations, with Proton VPN reporting an astonishing 1,800% uptick in new users since the UK law went into effect. 

Into the fire

VPN services can help you sidestep these requests for age verification by making it seem as if the interaction takes place from outside of the UK — but there is a problem with services of this kind. Not every VPN is as secure as it should be. To enumerate the extent of this insecurity, Top10 VPN warns that 88% of free VPNs they test suffer from serious security issues, such as leaking of IP addresses.

That means — particularly where free VPN services are concerned — people need to be very careful which services they choose. ProtonVPN, NordVPN, ExpressVPN all usually score highly when these services are reviewed, and should be relatively secure — that is, until we see those services caught up in the same privacy-eroding dragnet, “For Your Protection.” It’s all gone very Alan Moore.

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In the end time, you should not ask what you can do for artificial intelligence (AI), but what it can do for you. To me, that means creatives retaining their own copyright in the AI data-sucking era, rather than signing off their own ideas to machinery. And it means the AI tools we use shouldn’t compromise privacy, usability, or security. At best, AI should simply augment what humans can do alone.

That may not be where the AI industry seems to be going at the moment, but I do think there will come a time when it has no choice but to take that direction — even if it takes a few election cycles until regulation kicks in. That’s why today’s early movers don’t necessarily have the strongest foundations, despite the hype.

Searching for ideas

What’s that got to do with Apple? On the surface, not much. Apple isn’t playing the same search intelligence game. Its problems with AI, while widely reported, aren’t necessarily the problems we think we see. Apple doesn’t need to build an AI search engine or chatbot; it can play nice with others to deliver those kinds of features. 

What it does need is to design operating systems that make use of AI and machine intelligence to help people with their lives. At the same time, those age-old problems with Siri seriously damaged the company’s reputation, though they haven’t undermined user loyalty to any great extent. That’s in part because the vast majority of its customers (roughly 80%) aren’t yet using devices capable of running AI. 

While almost everyone on the planet seems to have made some use of ChatGPT, most are not using systems with ChatGPT built inside the operating system. (Though you see fragments of it when you use Office products; each time you try to open a document yet another set of unwanted Copilot UI elements appear — just where you don’t really want them.)

Apple’s playing a different game

What I’m saying is that despite all the hype and hoopla, AI’s true impact hasn’t yet been felt, and given that some of its more negative effects have yet to be felt, there will be a backlash. People tend to take umbrage when AI destroys their livelihoods or erodes their salaries.

That’s going to make most people more interested in finding AI that is good for them, solutions that are truly useful, and services that don’t diminish their lives while pretending to help them on their way.

Those are precisely the kind of services Apple should bring to the field.

In a recent client report seen by Computerworld, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring puts it well, noting that “investors do not fully appreciate Apple’s AI intentions.” His argument is that Apple doesn’t need to do what Meta, Google or Amazon are doing in terms of chatbots and search. That path is expensive, the market well-served, and the reward less clear. 

“We acknowledge that Apple might not have fully finalized their own approach to AI, but we also believe that anyone thinking Apple will acquire an AI-powered search engine to ‘solve their AI shortfalls’ is misguided,” Woodring said. “Apple almost certainly is not, and does not, want to compete directly in search, regardless of what happens in the DOJ v. GOOGL remedy ruling.”

Where is Apple going?

The analyst, instead, believes Apple’s approach will be to build a broad ecosystem of new virtual-assistant-like features embedded into their OS, “some of which run on homegrown LLMs with Siri acting as central command, and others (arguably more) leveraging white-labeled technology from leading AI labs (Perplexity, Google, Grok, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) — that make their products and services better…”

If that’s true — that Apple wants to create its own unique family of AI tools and services to make life better for its customers, while integrating services from others for those tasks it does not provide — then getting there will take time.

Does Apple have that time? 

I’ve argued for a while that it has time; user satisfaction across its ecosystem remains far deeper than anyone else, meaning its hardware sales aren’t really feeling any pain due to a perceived lack of AI. (Morgan Stanley actually sees growth in hardware sales across the current quarter.)

Combine happy users with the compelling nature of the hardware Apple already creates and you can see that Apple still has some time to develop its approach to AI. Woodring has the same analysis but does argue that Apple needs to make sure it does not squander this breathing space. 

“The rapid pace of AI innovation means we need to start seeing more tangible progress from Apple in the coming months,” he told his clients. 

While we wait…

Despite appearances, AI isn’t really the sum total of the tech industry. While it develops its own approach to integrating the tech within its hardware, Apple will maintain momentum with a flotilla of fresh new hardware designs, including super-thin, folding iPhones and new Mac families. And, of course, what’s nice about all this new hardware is that all of it will run whatever additional AI services the company intends to roll out in the future, along with existing Apple Intelligence tools.

And what that means, of course, is that two years down the line, hardware people already own or are about to acquire will become even more compelling as those new services ship in a move that again keeps Apple’s customers engaged. Apple’s moat runs deep.

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By Siôn Geschwindt For the first time, a satellite has used onboard AI to autonomously decide where and when to capture a scientific image — all in under 90 seconds, with no human input. The technology, called Dynamic Targeting, was tested by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) earlier this month. It was installed aboard a briefcase-sized satellite built and operated by UK-based startup Open Cosmos, and carried a machine learning processor developed by Dublin-based firm Ubotica.   In the test, the satellite tilted forward to scan 500km ahead of its orbit and snapped a preview image. Ubotica’s AI quickly analysed the scene to check…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: NASA

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT instead of Google’s search engine is becoming more common in the US, according to a new survey of 1,000 people by Adobe Express. More than three-quarters (77%) of respondents say they use ChatGPT for searches — and 25% have it as their first choice.

Not surprisingly, children and young people in particular prefer ChatGPT to Google. What attracts them most: getting answers to everyday questions or getting creative inspiration. Users said they also appreciate the ability to get summaries of complicated topics and to avoid having to click on a lot of links.

Three in 10 people surveyed said they trust ChatGPT over other search engines, and 47% of marketers and business owners use ChatGPT to promote their business.

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Eyeing the upcoming end of support for Windows 10 in October, many IT buyers are snapping up Windows 11 AI PCs despite having no clear understanding of how to use them in their infrastructures.

“The use cases around AI PCs are not fully fleshed out just yet,” said Jitesh Ubrani, research manager at IDC. “Companies are struggling to figure out if AI PCs are worth the extra investment or not, especially when there’s a lot of AI that can be done in the cloud, as opposed to on the device itself.”

The end of Windows 10 support, the hype around “AI PCs,” the push from companies like Microsoft to use AI tools like Copilot — even the prospect of tariffs — all present IT buyers with a conundrum when it comes to hardware purchases.  “The transition to…the generative AI PCs is slower than we expected,” Ubrani said. “And it’s mainly because of the environment we’re in right now.”

Overall, PC sales have been on an upswing. The PC market totaled 68.5 million units in the second quarter this year, growing 6.5% compared to the same quarter in 2024, according to IDC. (Gartner tallied PC shipments for the quarter slightly lower: 63.2 million units with a year-over-year growth rate of by 4.4%.)

But cost continues to be a big factor, especially since AI PCs can be expensive and don’t always perform as advertised — even if they have neural processing units (NPUs) designed to run genAI applications online.

What most end users care about is what generative AI (genAI) tools can accomplish on a PC, not how it’s done or what’s happening behind the scenes, Ubrani said. “We have expected this transition to happen fairly quickly…, especially because we were expecting costs to drop dramatically,” he said.

Instead, the adoption of AI PCs will likely take off next year, he said, especially with Qualcomm announcing new AI chips targeted at cheaper $600 PCs.

Although the AI software ecosystem hasn’t advanced as quickly as the hardware, AI will be increasingly important, with many apps utilizing the AI hardware or on-board NPUs, if available, said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. “AI PCs will be relevant, just not yet,” he said.

Microsoft has branded AI PCs as Copilot+ PCs in a bid to showcase the company’s genAI-based Copilot tools (and encourage the purchase of Windows 11 hardware). Chipmakers are in the mix as well: Intel, Qualcomm and AMD all offer chips with AI processors for Copilot PCs.

More hype than help (for now)?

But many AI PC buyers are being wooed with promises not yet fulfilled because the hardware may lack the specialized chips for on-device AI. Further complicating things: Microsoft also markets Copilot PCs that run only cloud-connected Copilot tools — not on-device AI.

The current Copilot+ hardware requirements are a little ambitious, given they don’t have applications that need those requirements, Atwal said. He argued companies should try to future-proof their purchases now. “It’s about how much you invest in the future, when applications such as conversational AI and other multi-modal interaction capabilities come along,” he said.

Microsoft is making fundamental changes to Windows 11 to make it an AI-savvy OS. The company in recent months added Phi and Mu small language models (SLMs) that can run directly on PCs and plans to include models to run Copilot in Microsoft 365 without an Internet connection. (Those applications will need AI PCs.)

The development of SLMs — and how efficiently they run — will be a key to future AI PC success. But more performance alone won’t be enough, Atwal said.

IT buyers should also be mindful of the security risks, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “It would be a good idea to educate users on the pros and cons, and policies around Copilot,” he said.

The free version of Copilot is available to download and use and could potentially leak sensitive data.

Although the enterprise version of Copilot requires a license, giving IT some control over its use, the free version is available to download and could potentially leak sensitive data. That could be an issue for smaller companies “where there is more variability,” Gold said.

AI PCs or not, companies should stick to their regular hardware upgrade cycles, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. “AI will always be a hybrid solution between the device and the cloud, so it’s best to buy to current needs,” he said.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Swiss startup Jua has launched an AI-powered weather forecaster that it says beats leading models from tech giants — potentially making it the world’s most accurate weather forecasting system. Jua claims its model — dubbed EPT-2 — is faster and more accurate than both Microsoft’s Aurora and Google DeepMind’s Graphcast. In separate, peer-reviewed studies, both of those models were shown to be more accurate than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)’s ENS forecast, widely regarded as the world leader. Jua backs up its bold claims with a new report, published today, that puts EPT-2 head-to-head with top-tier models…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Google

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By Siôn Geschwindt Swedish AI startup Lovable says it has surpassed $100mn in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just eight months after launch. This makes it the fastest-ever software company to reach the milestone — eclipsing the historically rapid growth rates of companies such as Cursor and Wiz.  Lovable’s rise stems from the popularity of its generative AI platform. The system allows non-technical users to build apps or websites based on simple text prompts.  The platform is the brainchild of Anton Osika, who co-founded Lovable in 2023. “I decided what we needed to do is build for the 99% who do not create software,” he…This story continues at The Next Web

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US bleach and cleaning product giant Clorox has filed a $380 million lawsuit against IT services provider Cognizant, alleging the company’s helpdesk staff handed over network passwords to cybercriminals who simply called and asked for them, no questions asked.

The complaint filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court includes actual recorded conversations that reveal the stunning simplicity of the August 2023 attack that resulted in $380 million in damages to the consumer goods company.

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