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  1. IT Pro

    NetApp wants businesses to ‘bring your own model’ in storage automation push

    New natural language capabilities will help streamline storage operations for administrators

  2. IT Pro Cloud

    NetApp eyes data sovereignty gains with new 'Keystone Sovereign' service

    The move by NetApp comes amidst growing demand for sovereign services

  3. IT Pro Cloud

    NetApp wants businesses to ‘bring your own model’ in storage automation push

    New natural language capabilities will help streamline storage operations for administrators

  4. The Next Web

    OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers

    Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on...

  5. The Next Web

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their...

  6. Security Week

    DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

    The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software. The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  7. The Hacker News

    Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

    Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organizations since...

  8. NY Times

    OpenAI Unveils Dots, New A.I. Agents to Rival Meta’s Muse

    The ChatGPT maker unveiled agents that act as assistants, just weeks after Meta released Muse, as it faces scrutiny over incidents involving its technology.

  9. Wired

    OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

    These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

  10. The Next Web

    Apple’s new CEO cuts managers to ship products faster, Bloomberg reports

    Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to comment. Ternus wants Apple to rely less on its...

  11. The Next Web

    AI agents are joining your workforce. Your workforce isn’t ready

    Executives are making a dangerous mistake with AI. They are preparing employees to use new tools when they should be preparing them to work differently. As AI agents begin to recommend, decide, coordinate, and act, the real transformation is not happening inside the software. It is happening inside...

  12. Dark Reading

    Cloudflare Announces Public Certificate Authority for the Post-Quantum Web

    Automated certificates for everyone, built for today, and hardened for the era of quantum computing.

  13. Security Week

    New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks

    Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  14. The Hacker News

    New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

    A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre-v2...

  15. NY Times

    OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

    Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

  16. The Next Web

    PwC survey of 49,000 workers finds most are falling behind on AI skills

    Nearly two-thirds of workers have used AI at work in the past year. Yet fewer say they can get the training they need, PwC found in its 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey. The firm surveyed 49,364 workers across 48 countries and regions in May and June. It published the results on...

  17. The Next Web

    Volkswagen’s affordable EV plans have a new Chinese partner

    Volkswagen has agreed three joint ventures with China’s Gotion to build lithium iron phosphate battery capacity, selling 49% of PowerCo’s Valencia plant and taking minority stakes in a Slovak cell plant and a Moroccan cathode plant. Volkswagen says Europe currently has no relevant capacity of its...

  18. The Next Web

    NASA pays Boeing $359m to get Starliner flying, eyes crew return by 2028

    NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing announced the plan at a news conference on Monday, and NASA set it out in a statement. It wants astronauts back on Starliner...

  19. The Next Web

    Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports

    Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verified the report. One idea would insure loans […]...

  20. The Next Web

    AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says

    The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, published on Tuesday. Existing AI products could bring in only $1.2tn to $1.8tn of that. “The debate today is fixated on...