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By Shikhar Mehrotra Apple’s next-generation Siri won’t arrive all at once. Instead, the company is reportedly staging its AI ambitions across multiple iOS releases and events.
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By Hisan Kidwai Welcome to 2026. It’s the year we all hoped for affordable tech, but the reality couldn’t…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Pro does better at solving sophisticated math problems than older versions of the company’s top large language model, according to a new study by Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute.

GPT-5.2 Pro solved four problems that had been too difficult for any other AI models to solve, and of the 13 problems that any other model had previously solved, it was able to solve 11, Epoch reported.

This means GPT-5.2 Pro had solved 31% of Epoch AI’s challenges, a rise from the previous score best of 19%.

Math problems have long proven difficult for AI. Scientists have speculated that this could be because AI systems can’t recognize their own limitations, while others have surmised that the issue is that AI are focused on language and not on numbers, leading to a few stumbles along the way. 

The Epoch AI experiment has demonstrated that AI is becoming more adept at some of the trickier math issues. In the test, GPT-5.2 Pro was presented with problems from various branches of math.

Joel Hass, a professor in the department of mathematics at University of California, Davis, contributed one of the problems solved by GPT-5.2 Pro. He told Epoch AI he was impressed with the way it cracked his topological challenge.  “GPT-5.2 Pro solved the problem with correct reasoning. Notably it was able to recognize the specific geometry of a surface defined by a polynomial in the problem statement,” he said.

Number theorist Ken Ono of the University of Virginia contributed another of the problems. He said that the AI model had “understood the essential theoretical trick and executed the necessary computations” to solve it, but added, “If it was a PhD student I would award only 6/10 for rigor due to missing details.”

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Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys for to US law enforcement officers, providing access to encrypted data, according to a news report.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation approached Microsoft with a search warrant in early 2025, seeking keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops in a case of alleged fraud involving the COVID unemployment assistance program in Guam. As the keys were stored on a Microsoft server, Microsoft adhered to the legal order and handed over the encryption keys, Forbes reported on Friday.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There have been instances in the past where the big tech companies were approached by law enforcement for access to devices but have resisted handing encryption keys to authorities.

BitLocker is a widely used tool for securing data at rest, whether by individuals or enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of Windows devices. By default, many Windows installations back up BitLocker recovery keys to Microsoft’s cloud services, where Microsoft can retrieve them if legally compelled with a valid order.

Custody issue, not BitLocker

BitLocker is designed to provide encryption for entire volumes, addressing the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned devices. As BitLocker is bunded with Windows 10 and Windows 11, it has effectively become the default full-disk encryption layer across Windows endpoints, say experts.

“BitLocker itself does not fail here. The software does what it is built to do, encrypts the disk, integrates into Windows, allows for easy recovery,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research.

While the encryption of BitLocker is robust, enterprises need to be mindful of who has custody of the keys, as this case illustrates.

“The encryption engine in BitLocker, using AES-128 or AES-256 in XTS mode, is built to resist modern cryptanalysis. Even the US Department of Homeland Security has admitted they lack the forensic tooling to break it directly. However, most enterprise fleets running Windows use tools like Intune and Autopilot to roll out and manage devices. In that flow, unless explicitly disabled, recovery keys are automatically backed up to Microsoft Entra ID. These keys are then viewable via the admin centre or retrievable through scripts,” Gogia said.

Where most enterprises go wrong

Enterprises using BitLocker should treat the recovery keys as highly sensitive, and avoid default cloud backup unless there is a clear business requirement and the associated risks are well understood and mitigated.

The safest configuration is to redirect those keys to on-premises Active Directory or a controlled enterprise key vault. Even if stored in corporate-controlled directory or service such as Microsoft Entra ID or Intune, there should be strong governance on who can read the keys, with effective logging and just-in-time access, said Amit Jaju, a global partner at Ankura Consulting. This can cut Microsoft out of the recovery loop, he said.

If keys have to reside in Microsoft’s cloud, use strong multi-factor authentication for admin roles, with conditional access and privileged-access workstations so a compromise of admin credentials does not automatically become a compromise of all keys, he said.

Enterprises should ensure strict access control and separation of duties. “Only a small, vetted group such as security operations, endpoint engineering, should have rights to view or export recovery keys. Approvals should be workflow-based, not ad hoc. Every key retrieval should leave an auditable, immutable trail, and ideally be tied to an incident or ticket ID,” said Jaju.

CISOs should also ensure that when devices are repurposed, decommissioned, or moved across jurisdictions, keys should be regenerated as part of the workflow to ensure old keys cannot be used.

Gogia warned of the long tail of insecure setups. Personal accounts linked during provisioning, or BYOD devices that silently sync keys to consumer dashboards, are invisible pathways for leakage. “If those keys sit outside your boundary, you no longer have a clean chain of custody. That’s not a theoretical risk. It’s something auditors are now actively checking,” he said.

As many breaches are not cryptographic but procedural, enterprises should have a formal playbook for when a recovery key can be used (lost PIN, internal investigation with legal approval, lawful order) and when it cannot (informal manager request to access an employee’s data), noted Jaju.

Geopolitics reshaping enterprise data and key control

Geopolitical tensions are also reshaping global trade and technology policies, something enterprises increasingly need to factor into their security strategies. As governments assert greater control over data, trade secrets and proprietary information risk becoming entangled in broader state interests.

Gogia warned, “The US CLOUD Act allows law enforcement to compel US-based providers to hand over data and keys, even if that data is hosted in Europe or Asia. Similarly, Chinese data localisation rules require keys and data to be accessible to state regulators. In India, recent legislation has introduced broad access rights for security agencies. And the EU is debating whether sovereignty must include key custody by design, not just data residency.”

If recovery keys are stored with a cloud provider, that provider may be compelled, at least in its home jurisdiction, to hand them over under lawful order, even if the data subject or company is elsewhere without notifying the company. This becomes even more critical from the point of view of a pharma company, semiconductor firm, defence contractor, or critical-infrastructure operator, as it exposes them to risks such as exposure of trade secrets in cross‑border investigations.

Jaju added, “Enterprises should assume that where keys are held, they can potentially be compelled. So where practical, ensure that the entities controlling keys are legally anchored in the jurisdiction whose laws and due-process standards you trust most. Establish board-level oversight on cross-border data access, including a register of government data-access requests, where legally permitted. For multinational companies, legal and security teams must work together to understand mutual legal-assistance treaties, CLOUD Act implications, and local interception laws.”

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By Ana-Maria Stanciuc London-based AI video startup Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to around $4 billion and cementing its position as one of Europe’s most valuable AI companies. The round was led by Google Ventures, with participation from existing investors, underscoring continued appetite for applied AI products that have already found a clear commercial use. Synthesia builds generative AI tools that let companies create videos using AI-generated avatars instead of cameras, studios, or presenters. The technology has found a strong foothold in corporate training, internal communications, and product explainers, areas where speed, scale, and…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Moinak Pal Brazilian researchers developed an AI system that analyzes WhatsApp audio messages to identify depression, showing high accuracy and potential for low-cost, real-world mental health screening.
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By Ana-Maria Stanciuc Amsterdam-based hospitality tech platform Mews has raised €255 million (about $300 million) in a Series D funding round as it pushes deeper into automation and AI-powered workflows for hotels around the world.  The round was led by EQT Growth with new participation from Atomico and HarbourVest Partners, alongside existing backers including Kinnevik, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global. The investment values the company at roughly $2.5 billion.  Founded in 2012 by Richard Valtr and Matt Welle, Mews builds a cloud-native “operating system” for hotels  software that ties together reservations, check-ins, housekeeping, payments and more in one platform.  Its technology is designed…This story continues at The Next Web

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In 2026, lower-end PCs may be more difficult to come by, and for those that are available, price tags may rise.

This is fallout from Intel’s plans to pivot its manufacturing capacity from chips for PCs to Xeon processors to support intensive AI workloads. The company has admitted that it had miscalculated demand for its data center products, and will now go all-in on AI-ready hardware.

This strategic turn indicates how voracious companies are for infrastructure that can power intensive AI workloads, to the point that even tech giants like Intel aren’t prepared for the demand.

“Intel’s move to prioritize data center capacity is in response to a supply-demand mismatch, or rather, faulty forecasting from their hyperscaler customers who rapidly shifted to the higher core-count solution late last year,” noted Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group.

Accelerating Xeon

In an earnings call this week, Intel CFO David Zinsner acknowledged capacity constraints in Q3 and Q4 as demand for its Xeon products soared. Intel Xeon 6 server processors (codenamed Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest) were designed for data centers, cloud, AI, and high performance computing (HPC), and are widely used by Nvidia.

At the same time, industry-wide demand for key components like dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), NAND, and substrates is ballooning due to intense demand for AI-ready infrastructure, said Zisner.

Just six months ago, he noted, unit sales were not expected to increase. “Every hyperscaler customer we talked to was signaling that,” he said. However, Intel experienced a rapid increase in orders for Xeon processors over the third and fourth quarters, and, after talking with hyperscalers, Zinsner said he got the impression that this will be “a story we’d feel for several years.”

“To the extent we have excess, we’re pushing all of that into the data center space to meet that customer demand,” he said. “We have important OEM customers, both data center and client, and that must be our priority to get the limited supply we have to those customers.”

Roadmaps altered

The company has made “decisive changes” to simplify its server road map, according to CEO Lip-Bu Tan. It will focus more closely on Diamond Rapids (Xeon gen 7) and accelerate delivery of Coral Rapids (Xeon 8), which will feature simultaneous multithreading (SMT), where one core can process two or more threads at once.

However, the company will not abandon its client business, Zinsner emphasized. “We can’t completely vacate the client market,” he said, “so we’re trying to support both as best we can, and obviously work our way out of this supply issue.”

That said, within the client segment, the company will particularly focus on mid- and high-end products (Core-series high-performance processors), as opposed to low end products (for less advanced PCs).

Intel is leaning heavily into AI PCs, having showcased its Core Ultra Series 3 (codenamed Panther Lake) at CES earlier this month, and said it is on track to release Nova Lake (its next mainstream client CPU following Core Ultra Series 3) this year.

“We now have a client road map that combines best-in-class performance with cost-optimized solutions,” said Tan.

The outlook for lower-end PCs

What does this mean for lower-end PCs? Zinsner acknowledged that “client CPU inventory is lean,” even amid excitement for Series 3. Further, “rising component pricing is a dynamic we continue to watch closely, especially relative to the client market.”

The Intel 18A node manufacturing process for Panther Lake is challenged with lower than expected yields, which “throttles output vs market demand,” said Info-Tech’s Bickley. “Coupled with a focus on their mid-high end markets, this makes the lower-end entry-level laptops and PCs materially more difficult to source.”

Anshel Sag, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, agreed there may be fewer low-end SKUs in 2026, and the ramp for products like Wildcat Lake, an entry-level Core Series 3 CPU, might be later in the year, or could slip into next year as 18A capacity increases.

Processors from AMD and Qualcomm could help address some of the shortfalls, especially in the mid-range, Sag forecasted; at the low end, more price-conscious users may push into Android via Google’s Project Aluminium and through partners like Mediatek, which currently rule that market.

As lower-cost inventory buffers are depleted, buyers can expect price increases ranging from 15% to 20% in 2026, with some brands “hiking prices higher to salvage margins,” said Bickley. He projects PC manufacturers will lean into the AI PC trend, focusing less on lower-cost models and shifting production to machines that utilize higher-end CPU chips and memory components.

However, he noted, “CPUs are not being cannibalized by GPUs. Instead, they have become ‘chokepoints’ in AI infrastructure.” For instance, CPUs such as Granite Rapids are essential in GPU clusters, and for handling agentic AI workloads and orchestrating distributed inference.

How pricing might increase for enterprises

Ultimately, rapid demand for higher-end offerings resulted in foundry shortages of Intel 10/7 nodes, Bickley noted, which represent the bulk of the company’s production volume. He pointed out that it can take up to three quarters for new server wafers to move through the fab process, so Intel will be “under the gun” until at least Q2 2026, when it projects an increase in chip production.

Meanwhile, manufacturing capacity for Xeon is currently sold out for 2026, with varying lead times by distributor, while custom silicon programs are seeing lead times of 6 to 8 months, with some orders rolling into 2027, Bickley said.

In the data center, memory is the key bottleneck, with expected price increases of more than 65% year over year in 2026 and up to 25% for NAND Flash, he noted. Some specific products have already seen price inflation of over 1,000% since 2025, and new greenfield capacity for memory is not expected until 2027 or 2028.

Moor’s Sag was a little more optimistic, forecasting that, on the client side, “memory prices will probably stabilize this year until more capacity comes online in 2027.”

How enterprises can prepare

Supplier diversification is the best solution for enterprises right now, Sag noted. While it might make things more complex, it also allows data center operators to better absorb price shocks because they can rebalance against suppliers who have either planned better or have more resilient supply chains.

Bickley urged enterprises to also establish hybrid AI strategies that split workloads between the cloud and client device PCs, to defer reliance on oversubscribed compute. Where possible, invest in memory optimization tools and extend refresh cycles for existing hardware to avoid the 2026 price peak, as well as auditing supply chains to gain earlier visibility to component risks.

Further, “shift to multi-year commitments and away from spot buying,” he advised. “This requires longer-term planning and strategic supply agreements to guarantee allocation in a capacity-limited environment.”

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As the market slows down, AWS and other Amazon units are preparing for another round of layoffs, which is expected to overwhelmingly impact tech talent.

“Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers,” Reuters reported. “The company in October cut some 14,000 white-collar jobs, about half of the 30,000 target first reported by Reuters. The total this time is expected to be roughly the same as last year and could begin as soon as Tuesday.”

“This announcement should not be a shock to anyone, as Amazon had clearly forecasted a total layoff number last year of around 30K,” said Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research. “Ten percent of the corporate workforce represents a large-scale reduction, but Amazon has long operated less like a traditional people-centric enterprise and more like a highly optimized system.”

“These job cuts have likely been in the works for several months now, with the organization preparing to ensure no balls are dropped once the affected employees are released. In pre-Covid times, bottom performers would be regularly and relentlessly culled from the herd. The pandemic was a generational opportunity for Amazon, however, and they scaled up massively to meet the increased demands from a global population stranded inside their homes under lockdown,” Bickley said. “This created a massive hiring wave, the likes of which Amazon is still seeking to right-size. Add in the recent AI hype cycle, and this process was likely further slowed.”

The role of AI is clearly a background factor in the layoffs, but people familiar with Amazon operations stressed that it’s indirect. Amazon is not using AI to replace employees, they said, but the softening of the AI market, especially with AWS losing momentum to Google, is a key factor behind the cuts.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy himself told investors during the third-quarter earnings call in late October that AI is not the direct reason for the layoffs. Jassy said the layoffs “are not really financially driven and it’s not even really AI-driven” and that the reason is “culture.”

Jassy explained: “If you grow as fast as we did for several years, the size of businesses, the number of people, the number of locations, the types of businesses you’re in, you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers. And when that happens, sometimes without realizing, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work.”

Mohan Mulund, a former Amazon director of product management who is now managing director of investment firm Vangal, said that he has been in touch with current AWS employees who have expressed worries about being laid off.

Mulund said that Jassy is correct that the layoffs are being fueled by culture, but it’s not quite the culture that Jassy described. Mulund said the issue is that Amazon, along with every hyperscaler, hired a lot of people in 2020 and 2021 and paid them better than many existing employees in identical roles.

“Amazon believes in having lifers,” Mulund said, referring to employees who have been at the company for more than 15 years. “They see people making more [than they do] and they are upset.”

Mulund offered the example of a Level 8 director at Amazon. Even though a typical manager at that level is making about $700K annually, many of the Level 8 managers brought onboard during the hiring boom are taking home $1 million per year. “That creates resentment,” he said.

Mulund said that Amazon is not exactly targeting those more highly compensated people; they are laying off employees whose performance is ranked poorly. But, he stressed, the more an employee is paid, the higher the expectations. That means that the layoffs will inevitably impact more of the higher-paid people, which should dilute the resentment.

Bickley added that reductions at Amazon happen fairly routinely. “They are pretty ruthless in terms of their performance reviews. Typically they cull the herd pretty regularly,” Bickley said. 

He said he only partially agreed with Mulund. That higher compensation is a reality, but much of it is from stock options, he noted. Amazon often looks very closely at employees “as they are about to cash out” and that is why it is common for Amazon managers “to leave right before they vest.”

Still, Bickley said, that impacts a relatively small number of the people likely to be laid off. “There are hundreds, at most, that are in that category. It’s nowhere near thousands,” Bickley said. “I don’t think that is what is driving these layoffs.”

Mohamed Yousuf, CEO of Smart Workforce AI, observed that AI is playing a role.

“When they mention culture, or bureaucracy, it’s from the result of pre-AI operating models that don’t match today’s productivity realities,” Yousuf pointed out. “We have seen how effectively AI can change productivity baselines inside companies. This then pushes leadership to reassess how much of their current structure is actually needed.”

“Separating these layoffs from AI is just simply narrative management. The reality is AI raised productivity expectations and employees are asked to meet them by leaving. They might not be directly replacing each laid off employee with AI, but the remaining staff work a lot faster as AI enabled teams,” Yousuf said. 

Mulund added that he expects to see the layoffs overwhelmingly impacting “tech people” and that “more than half of them will be AWS people. It will be more on the AWS side because AWS growth has slowed down pretty dramatically.”

Despite that, he said, he does not expect AWS customers will be affected by the layoffs. “Nothing is going to change for them at all. It won’t impact service of the business” he said, adding, “because [AWS] businesses have slowed down, they can make do with fewer people on the team” without affecting service delivery.

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European tech leaders at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, warned against an overzealous approach to digital sovereignty that shuts out US technology suppliers.

“We have to be careful about the discourse around sovereignty,” said Aiman Ezzat, CEO of French IT services firm Capgemini, in a panel discussion on Thursday.

Ezzat cited Mario Draghi’s influential 2024 report on European Union competitiveness, in which the former European Central Bank President linked lagging productivity growth in Europe to lower technology adoption.

Regulations designed to enforce digital sovereignty could slow technology adoption in Europe and “further deplete the competitiveness of European industry,” Ezzat warned.

“We have to go for technology adoption as fast as possible. And, yes, sometimes it is going to be at the expense of sovereignty,” he said.

In a Bloomberg interview at Davos, Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish telecom equipment firm Ericsson, said that recent discussions around sovereignty are “dangerous,” and that attempts to build homegrown alternatives to US technology would lead to higher prices in the region.

At the same time, Capgemini’s Ezzat noted a “huge amount of dependency” on US technology that has led to “exposure and risk.”

He said Europe’s reliance on US technology is due, in part, to a weak domestic cloud sector that stems from a lack of available investment capital during the 2010s. A 2025 Synergy Research report found that European cloud providers now account for just 15% of the region’s cloud market. “We did not invest early enough in the cloud to be able to create a European cloud player,” he said.

Ezzat called for a balanced approach to digital sovereignty. “Remember, sovereignty is not one monolithic thing. It’s not ‘either we have or we don’t have,’” he said.

European countries are already positioned to ensure data, operational, and regulatory sovereignty, said Ezzat. Technological sovereignty is more challenging, however. “There are four layers, and we can control three out of the four,” he said. “On the technology side, we’re going to have to make the compromise while we’re trying, at the same time, to build our own stack in some places,” he said.

Technological sovereignty spans several layers, said Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of Polish voice AI startup ElevenLabs, during the panel discussion. This includes energy and compute, as well as foundational models and how these models are applied in production by companies and governments.

He said that partnering with global providers of foundational models makes sense, while European firms can compete and “flourish” further up the stack by focusing on data and AI applications that sit on top of these models.

In Europe, the topic of sovereignty can be “very emotional — maybe too emotional,” said SAP CEO Christian Klein, also speaking during the panel discussion.

He said some dependence on US hardware is unavoidable, but the ability to switch infrastructure providers limits the risk. Sovereignty efforts should then focus on the data layer as a priority, he said.

“I can port any ERP from one infrastructure to another in four weeks. I cannot port a customer from an SAP supply chain software wanting mission critical manufacturing in four weeks from one system to another,” said Klein.

“We need to spend more time on having better access to data and really playing a game which the US and China have not yet played.”

More on the digital sovereignty push in Europe:

Europe votes to tackle deep dependence on US tech in sovereignty drive

Global uncertainty is reshaping cloud strategies in Europe

EU looks to bolster its open-source sector to counter US cloud dominance

Nadella redefines ‘sovereignty’ for the AI era — analysts call it smart, self‑serving

AWS European cloud service launch raises questions over sovereignty

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