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Explainer: Why is everyone talking about AI and the end of the world?

Calls for tighter AI safeguards have intensified after warnings the technology could outpace human control and threaten jobs, security and markets.

By RNZ • 8 min read • 4 days ago

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Virtual Private Networks

Google Cloud unveils AI framework for telecoms networks

Operators could use the new framework to spot faults faster, test changes safely and automate telecoms network decisions as complexity rises.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Virtualisation

Google Cloud launches Filestore agent volumes for AI

The service aims to cut storage overheads for firms running thousands of AI agents, while keeping workspaces isolated and quick to spin up.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Yesterday

Data Protection

Google warns AI is reshaping cyber attacks & defences

Attackers are exploiting AI tools to speed intrusions and drain cloud resources, pushing defenders towards machine-speed security operations.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Data sovereignty

Cohere launches North Small Translate in translation push

Enterprises handling large multilingual workloads may gain cheaper, faster translation as Cohere's new model targets data control and sovereign deployment.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Yesterday

Fintech

Global Signal Exchange joins Japan anti-scam alliance

The tie-up should give Japanese banks and investigators faster access to cross-border scam intelligence as fraudsters move across platforms and borders.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • 2 days ago

Risk & Compliance

Press Gazette launches AI content checker for editors

Editors facing EU transparency rules can now flag AI-made text, images and audio before publication, with fines possible for non-compliance.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • 2 days ago

Customer Experience

AI loyalty shift threatens retailers' direct customer ties

Retailers could be reduced to fulfilment providers unless they use loyalty data to stay visible as shoppers turn to AI assistants.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • 3 days ago

Malware

AI security incidents expose new criminal tradeoffs

Criminals are increasingly using AI for ransomware and credential theft, while flaws in test models are exposing production systems and data.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • 3 days ago

Data centers

Google uses eBPF schedulers to boost RPC performance

A custom eBPF scheduler has lifted queries per second by about 5% on some RPC stacks, while reducing kernel change risk for production tests.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • 3 days ago

Virtualisation

Google launches open-source Agent Substrate on GKE

Teams running AI agents at scale could save idle compute and tighten isolation as Google opens Agent Substrate on Kubernetes Engine.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • 4 days ago

Phishing

Microsoft & Google use shared exchange to hit RedVDS

Criminal access to thousands of Microsoft accounts was cut off after the companies shared threat data through the Global Signal Exchange.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • 4 days ago

Robotics

Former Google worker adds to AI alarm, warns of 'potential to kill us all'

Growing alarm over AI safety has intensified after another former Google DeepMind engineer warned the technology could escape human control.

By RNZ • 2 min read • 4 days ago

Data Protection

Exclusive: ABBYY launches hybrid AI document models

Enterprises under pressure to curb AI risk and cost are being given a hybrid option that blends generative models with OCR and rules-based extraction.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • 4 days ago