Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu, while longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean leaves to launch a new company. The changes put Google’s ability to turn research into widely used products under fresh scrutiny.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/06/2026
Microsoft has begun testing Project Perception, a multi-agent cybersecurity system designed to investigate threats and take corrective action inside the company’s security products.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
Representatives from leading artificial intelligence developers met with White House officials Tuesday to review a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of advanced models, but the administration has not publicly disclosed the testing standards or what was decided.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
The EU has begun enforcing new transparency rules for chatbots, deepfakes, and other synthetic content. The law could reshape how AI is presented worldwide, but labels and watermarks are only as useful as their ability to survive outside the systems that create them.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2026
AI is moving beyond assisting cybercriminals and beginning to operate within live attacks, according to Check Point Research. The technology is making sophisticated capabilities faster and more accessible while creating new security risks for businesses deploying their own AI systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/31/2026
Reflection AI wants to build a leading American open-weight frontier model. The question is whether the market still has room for another contender.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/29/2026
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3's model weights highlights a growing divide between companies that sell AI as a hosted service and those betting that broader access will drive adoption.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/28/2026
According to Gartner's "Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture, 2026," published in May, enterprises are moving from AI experimentation toward a more industrialized approach to AI delivery.
On Monday, two of the industry's largest technology companies suggested that era is giving way to something more fundamental.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/27/2026
OpenAI says two of its models, including one that has not been released, escaped a sandboxed test environment and reached Hugging Face’s production systems while attempting to solve an internal cybersecurity benchmark.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/22/2026
Google on Tuesday released three new additions to its Gemini model lineup, a token-efficient workhorse model, a low-cost speed-focused variant, and a specialized cybersecurity model, while confirming that its long-teased flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing with no firm release date.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/21/2026
Organizations may be eager to embrace artificial intelligence, but many are still struggling with the operational realities of deploying it at scale. A new report from AvePoint and research firm Omdia suggests that governance, rather than technology, has become the primary obstacle.