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Google's AI vibe-coding app Opal is now available in 15 more countries, including Canada, India, and Japan. The app allows users to create mini web apps using text prompts and has improved debugging and performance features.

IBM and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Anthropic's Claude large language model into IBM's software products, starting with its integrated development environment. The partnership aims to advance enterprise software development with proven security and governance.

OpenAI has released a report detailing its efforts to monitor and prevent misuse of its ChatGPT chatbots. The report highlights cases where the company has disrupted harmful activity, including scams and cyberattacks. OpenAI uses a combination of automated systems and human reviewers to detect and prevent misuse, and has flagged accounts linked to governments and organized crime groups. The company has also outlined its approach to handling users who express emotional or mental distress, and is working to improve its safeguards against psychological harm.

AI is changing white-collar work by automating tasks, enhancing efficiency, and altering job roles. While it has the potential to replace some jobs, it is also creating new opportunities for workers with specialized skills. Companies like A&O Shearman and Morgan Stanley are using AI to improve productivity and reduce costs.

OpenAI has launched Sora, a short-form video app that uses AI to generate videos. The app is seen as a key step towards developing artificial general intelligence. OpenAI and Meta are betting on AI-generated video feeds to drive revenue, despite being expensive to produce. Sora is free to use, with a higher quality version available to ChatGPT Pro users.

Otter.ai releases new suite of tools for enterprises to incorporate meeting data into workflows, aiming to become a corporate meeting knowledge base. The tools include an API for custom integrations, an MCP server, and an AI agent for searching meeting notes and presentations.

OpenAI has integrated top apps like Spotify, Figma, and Canva directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to interact with them within the chat. An SDK is also released for developers to create and integrate their own apps. The goal is to make ChatGPT a tool for productivity, learning, and creativity.

Perplexity's AI-powered browser, Comet, has a vulnerability that allows malicious links to hijack its internal AI, potentially stealing personal information. This highlights the risks of AI-powered browsers, which may introduce new classes of vulnerabilities as they become more prevalent.

A recent study by LayerX found that 45% of enterprise employees use generative AI tools, with 77% copying and pasting data into chatbot queries, including sensitive information like PII and PCI numbers. ChatGPT is the most widely used AI tool in enterprises, with 90% of employees accessing it, while Microsoft Copilot has much lower adoption rates.

OpenAI has disrupted Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to create social media surveillance tools, including a 'probe' to crawl social media sites for specific content. The company also banned accounts using ChatGPT to develop malware, scams, and tracking tools, highlighting the need for awareness of malicious uses of AI.

Google's Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model is a new AI model that can navigate and interact with the web via a browser, allowing AI agents to perform tasks in interfaces designed for humans. The model uses visual understanding and reasoning capabilities to analyze user requests and carry out tasks, such as filling out forms or clicking buttons. It is available to developers through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and has been demonstrated to outperform leading alternatives on multiple web and mobile benchmarks.

Wall Street analysts explain how AMD's own stock will pay for OpenAI's billions in chip purchases, with OpenAI receiving up to 160 million AMD shares, which could be worth $100 billion if the stock price hits its marks, essentially making this a financing scheme for AMD to pay for OpenAI's purchases

A critical deserialization flaw in GoAnywhere MFT's License Servlet Admin Console is being actively exploited in ransomware attacks. Microsoft urges customers to patch CVE-2025-10035 to prevent command injection and potential RCE on affected systems.

The Supreme Court has denied Google's request to pause changes to the Play Store, requiring the company to allow developers to use alternative payment methods and link to external app downloads by October 22. This decision follows Epic Games' antitrust lawsuit against Google, which accused the company of having an illegal monopoly on app distribution and in-app billing services for Android devices.

Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, a maker of microcontrollers and single-board computers, to enhance its edge computing capabilities. The acquisition introduces the UNO Q, a new Arduino product based on Qualcomm's Dragonwing chip, featuring a CPU, GPU, and MCU. The move aims to empower developers with access to Qualcomm's edge technologies and products, while Arduino will retain its independence.

The article discusses how past education tech failures can inform the future of AI in schools. It highlights the importance of humility, experimentation, and assessment in implementing AI in education, and notes that there is no evidence that rapid adoption of new technologies has led to durable benefits for students. The article recommends a cautious approach, with teachers acting as scientists to test and refine new practices, and emphasizes the need for rigorous testing and evidence-based decision making.

North Korean hackers have stolen over $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, according to blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. This is the largest annual total on record, with most of the hacks perpetrated through social engineering attacks. The regime's main targets are crypto exchanges and high-net-worth individuals.

ÄIO, a startup from Estonia, has developed a process to convert agricultural waste like sawdust into edible fats for the food and cosmetic industries, potentially reducing dependency on palm oil and its environmental impact. The company's technology uses a microbe, a strain of yeast, to consume sugar and output fat molecules, which can be modified to produce different types of fats.

Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware, Michel Devoret, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum computing, specifically the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.

Salesforce has confirmed it won't negotiate or pay a ransom to threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks impacting its customers. The attacks, conducted by threat actors known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, involved social engineering and stolen OAuth tokens to steal nearly 1 billion data records from major companies like Google, Cisco, and FedEx.