By Sudhanshu Kumar Mangalam After years of using Alexa to answer questions, control smart homes, play music, and handle everyday tasks, Amazon has found a more obvious job for it. Alexa is becoming your personal shopper, meant to help you find what you need faster and get it into your cart with fewer second thoughts. Amazon is rolling out […]

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By TNW Deals AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Alina Maria Stan The new mode runs Meta AI on WhatsApp inside the company’s Private Processing enclave, with conversations deleted by default and no server-side record retained. Meta has launched an Incognito Chat mode for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, an effort to address the awkward fact that its assistant, like every other major […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Rachit Agarwal Researchers in South Korea have developed a ring-based sign language translator that works wirelessly and can recognize ASL and ISL words with roughly 88% accuracy.

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By Deepti Pathak HP has announced a massive refresh of its India lineup with more than 20 new products…
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By Hisan Kidwai Running watches have slowly evolved from being niche gadgets meant only for marathon runners into something…
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By Sudhanshu Kumar Mangalam Google is giving the mouse pointer a Gemini-powered upgrade on Googlebook, allowing users to point, speak, and get help across the desktop without writing detailed prompts.

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By Cristian Dina   Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the NBA. It grew monthly revenue tenfold in 12 months. It pledged 10 million pounds to Scottish AI […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Cristian Dina   Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his company’s software inside Joule Studio, the agent-building environment at the centre of the Autonomous Enterprise platform that SAP unveiled at […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Shimul Sood Chrome on Android is getting a major AI upgrade with Gemini at its core, turning the browser into a more helpful assistant that can understand pages, handle tasks, and simplify how you use the web.

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As Apple heads toward next month’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), cast your mind back almost 30 years. That’s when something happened that arguably put events in motion that led to Apple becoming the company it is today. That was when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the top job at WWDC 1997 — the first such event after Apple acquired NeXT.

The big debt to NS

It took until 2000 to fully realize what the NeXT purchase meant; that’s when the Mac OS X Public Beta was released. The operating system has seen many twists and turns since then, but the NeXTStep OS acquisition forms the basis on which the Apple software ecosystem has been built. Mac, iPhone, iPad – even Apple Watch and Vision Pro – all share elements of it.

You can see its traces each time you use an application that makes use of a macOS API that uses the NS — ‘NeXTStep’ prefix. That means you’re using NeXT when you work in SwiftUI, use Apple’s core frameworks, or write code for use across different platforms in the current ecosystem. Despite the many names for Apple’s platforms, they all have a little NeXT in common.

The need for a new, modern operating system was critical at the time to Apple. The company had fallen into the doldrums with its classic Mac OS operating system and competitors had forged ahead, at least in marketshare. Among others, Michael Dell, Time Magazine, and almost everyone else expected the company to collapse. NeXT was the salvation, Jobs the icon, and history the prize.

The next challenge now

Today’s Apple faces a fresh existential challenge, and while much of it feels media-driven, the company does need to introduce an intelligence layer around and upon its platforms, alongside the tools developers need to exploit AI within their applications. 

Apple knows this, too, which is why it already offers Apple Intelligence APIs to developers to use in their apps. The company also knows they need a way to market those software ideas and get them into the hands of end users; that’s what the App Store provides.

When Apple wove NeXT into its operating system, it somehow managed to provide developers with better tools, modern, enduring foundations, frameworks and everything else needed to build an ecosystem that extends across multiple product families at a range of prices and technological advancement — from the $499 MacBook Neo to the $3,499 Vision Pro. You can build applications for any or all of these platforms using components Apple provides, along with what you bring yourself. To a great extent, all of this potential was unlocked by the acquisition of NeXTStep and its use in OS X at the turn of the century. 

Telling stories

No doubt, developers are eager to discover the extent to which Apple has managed to join the circle of AI development on its platforms. They surely hope for powerful new APIs to enhance their products with a new intelligence layer, even while Apple itself needs to offer developers the same thing to keep them loyal to its platforms. 

If you squint just a little bit, the same challenges that haunted Apple in the late ‘90s echo again today. Apple wants to reinvent itself for AI without sacrificing all the benefits of its existing ecosystem. It wants to do so while making sure its developer community buys into its chosen direction. To help achieve this, it can lean heavily into its inherent hardware advantage: Not only can its products run the apps developers build, but they are also fantastic platforms to build on in the first place. All the same, it needs to convince them with a narrative that resonates, which means that while WWDC in 1997 was all about NeXTStep, WWDC 2026 is all about which steps Apple takes next. 

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OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its answer to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, amid a growing market for frontier AI-powered cyber defense platforms. The initiative combines OpenAI’s large language models, Codex’s agentic capabilities, and integrations with the broader enterprise security ecosystem.

The company said Daybreak is focused on accelerating cyber defense operations and enabling organizations to secure software across the development lifecycle continuously.

Announcing the initiative on X, Sam Altman, CEO at OpenAI, said, “OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we’d like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves.”

Daybreak takes on Mythos

The surge in AI-driven cyber threats has recently shifted the AI race toward AI cybersecurity models. In April this year, Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing, built around Claude Mythos Preview. Anthropic described it as a cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities at scale.

While introducing Daybreak, OpenAI explained that deploying AI in modern cyber defense involves three core stages. The first is prioritizing high-impact threats and reducing hours of security analysis to minutes through more efficient AI reasoning and token usage. The second involves generating and testing patches directly within enterprise repositories using scoped access, monitoring, and review. The final stage focuses on sending results and audit-ready evidence back into enterprise systems to track, validate, and verify remediation efforts.

In Daybreak, Codex security is designed to identify and fix vulnerabilities by building an editable threat model from the enterprise’s repository and focusing analysis on realistic attack paths and high-impact code. The system would then validate likely vulnerabilities in an isolated environment. This would help teams to prioritise real, reproducible issues over noisy alerts. This will be followed by automated detection and response, where AI will be able to spot higher-risk vulnerabilities and enable end-to-end automated monitoring.

“The divergence reflects fundamentally different approaches to security and commercialization. OpenAI is positioning Daybreak and GPT-5.5-Cyber as a controlled cyber-defense platform for vetted defenders, focused on operational workflows such as vulnerability detection, patch validation, malware analysis, and secure software development,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO at EIIRTrend & Pareekh Consulting. “Strategically, Daybreak helps OpenAI counter the perception that Anthropic leads in frontier cyber AI. Instead of relying on a single secretive model, OpenAI is building a scalable cyber-defense ecosystem integrated into enterprise workflows and developer environments.”

Jain said Anthropic, by contrast, treats Mythos as a far more sensitive dual-use cyber-intelligence system with stronger offensive reasoning capabilities and higher misuse risks. As a result, access remains tightly restricted to a small set of organizations, influenced both by safety concerns and broader US national-security considerations.

OpenAI’s cybersecurity model stack

OpenAI is pursuing a scalable cyber defense platform strategy with Daybreak and is rolling out the initiative through three different model tiers: GPT-5.5 (default), GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber, and GPT-5.5-Cyber.

The standard GPT-5.5 model is positioned for general-purpose enterprise use cases, including developer assistance and knowledge work. GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber is designed for defensive security workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, malware analysis, detection engineering, and patch validation.

At the highest tier, GPT-5.5-Cyber will provide preview access for specialized cybersecurity workflows, including authorized red teaming, penetration testing, and controlled validation.

Governments and industry join in

OpenAI said it plans to build Daybreak alongside both industry and government partners as it expands the platform’s cybersecurity capabilities and enterprise reach.

To begin with, Daybreak is being developed alongside partners including Cisco, Oracle, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Akamai, and Zscaler.

At the government level, the European Commission is currently in discussions with OpenAI regarding access to its advanced AI models for identifying cybersecurity vulnerabilities. According to Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier, OpenAI proactively approached the EU, and discussions are underway around potential next steps, including possible access to the company’s new model. Discussions with Anthropic are also continuing. However, they have not yet reached the same stage as those with OpenAI.

While answering questions during the Commission’s daily press briefing, spokesperson Regnier said the European Commission welcomes OpenAI’s transparency and their intent to give the Commission access to its new model. This will allow the Commission to follow the deployment of this model very closely and also to potentially address certain security concerns in a closer way.

Amit Jaju, senior managing director at Ankura Consulting, said, “OpenAI is actively leveraging its trusted access framework to rapidly build goodwill with European regulators and demonstrate transparency. By offering early access, OpenAI aligns itself closely with upcoming regulatory demands and secures a strategic market position.”  Jaju noted that Anthropic is taking a highly restricted approach, initially sharing its Mythos model only with select US technology partners to patch vulnerabilities first. “Anthropic recognizes the severe risks associated with autonomous AI agents and the potential for the model to be misused to target critical software, choosing to prioritize closed testing over rapid geopolitical expansion.”

The article originally appeared on CSO.

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By Deepti Pathak ASUS India has unveiled new deals on its ExpertBook laptop range during Flipkart SASA LELE Sale…
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By Vikhyaat Vivek Sony’s Reon Pocket Pro Plus uses a cooled metal plate on your neck, promising stronger cooling, better stability, and up to 10 hours of battery life.

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By Alina Maria Stan   GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Alina Maria Stan   Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct listing that valued it at 11 billion dollars, has moved its primary listing to New York while keeping a secondary listing […] This story continues at The Next Web

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that AI could become a growing threat to global financial stability by making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated. In a new analysis, the organization describes how new AI tools can help attackers identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in banks, payment systems, and cloud services in record time.

According to the IMF, the financial sector relies heavily on shared digital infrastructure, which means a single vulnerability could have consequences for multiple institutions simultaneously. AI-driven attacks might, for instance, lead to disruptions in payment systems, liquidity problems, and reduced confidence in the financial market.

The IMF points, among other things, to Anthropic’s experimental AI model Claude Mythos Preview to illustrate how quickly AI technology is progressing. The model is reported to be highly skilled at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers.

At the same time, the agency argued that AI tools could also become an important part of security solutions. To mitigate risks, the IMF said banks, government agencies, and tech companies now need to strengthen their collaboration on cybersecurity.

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The European Commission is considering new rules that could restrict the use of cloud services from other countries for sensitive public data within the EU, according to sources cited by CNBC. The proposal is expected to be part of the EU’s upcoming “Tech Sovereignty Package,” which is slated to be presented May 27.

The idea is that certain types of data — such as those in healthcare, finance, and the judiciary — should be stored and managed to a greater extent on European cloud infrastructure. If put in place, the rules could affect dominant US players such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. All could consequently see their use restricted in sensitive public systems.

The move comes amid growing concern about dependence on US technology and legislation such as the US Cloud Act, which in some cases can give US authorities access to data even if it is stored in Europe.

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By Shimul Sood Sony’s leaked ColleXion headphones appear to combine a cleaner minimalist design with a redesigned hinge mechanism that could finally address complaints around the WH-1000XM6.

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