Data collection is common: Incogni’s review of 442 AI-powered Chrome extensions found that 52% collect user data and 29% collect personally identifiable information, including personal communications, location data, and website content.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/27/2026
Microsoft is pushing deeper into custom AI silicon for inference. Maia 200 is designed to lower the cost of running AI models in production, as inference increasingly drives AI operating expenses. The chip targets real-world bottlenecks, not just raw compute. Microsoft emphasizes low-precision performance, high-bandwidth HBM3e memory, and data-movement and networking features to increase token throughput at scale.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/27/2026
Anthropic's new Cowork research preview represents a bet that the computer-using capabilities behind its developer-focused Claude Code tool can be adapted for everyday office work, giving non-technical workers a way to delegate file-heavy tasks on their Macs. The preview also highlights the risks and trust questions that arise when an AI system is granted the ability to take actions on a local machine, including the potential to delete files or be manipulated by malicious instructions embedded in content it processes.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/22/2026
Apple and Google said on Monday they have struck a multiyear partnership that will put Google's Gemini models and cloud technology at the core of the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, a move that could help Apple accelerate long-promised upgrades to Siri while handing Google a high-profile distribution win on the iPhone.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/15/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok will be deployed inside Pentagon networks alongside Google's generative AI tools, as the Trump administration pushes to feed more Defense Department data into emerging AI systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/13/2026
VAST Data has unveiled a redesigned inference architecture to support the emerging class of long-lived, multi-agent artificial intelligence systems. The infrastructure centers on the company’s AI Operating System (AI OS), which now runs natively on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs, eliminating traditional storage bottlenecks and enabling deterministic access to shared memory for inference at scale.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/13/2026
AI-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has signed a definitive agreement to acquire identity security company SGNL in a deal valued at approximately $740 million, the company said Thursday.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/08/2026
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard that defines how AI applications securely connect to data sources and tools, with potential benefits and risks for enterprise adoption.
- By Pure AI Editors
- 01/07/2026
The first big AI wave was about awe. The second was about access. The third was about agents, everywhere, doing things on your behalf, quietly, inside the software you already use. The fourth wave, if you believe this year's pile of forecasts, looks less like a movie trailer and more like a compliance checklist.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/06/2026
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new collaborative initiative designed to build an open-source ecosystem for autonomous AI agents. The effort brings together major players across AI and cloud computing, including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading tech companies.
X is revising its Terms of Service (ToS) effective Jan. 15, 2026, with an update that more explicitly brings AI activity -- including Grok prompts and outputs -- under the platform's content and misuse rules.
For the last few years, the pitch has been that AI could mop up this mess. In 2026, the prediction wave says the pitch changes. The demo is no longer the product. The benchmark is no longer the finish line. The era of AI as a science project ends when AI touches reality, and reality touches back.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/19/2025
OpenAI has hired Denise Dresser, CEO of Slack, as its new chief revenue officer in a bid to accelerate its enterprise business at a time when the AI company is burning cash faster than almost any startup in history.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/18/2025