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PwC's survey of about 4,000 business and tech leaders found no agreed owner for AI risk, with the CIO or CTO the top answer at just 29%. Until that settles, the usable control is per agent: its own credential and one named owner.
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Meta's two-piece VR Glasses go on like eyewear and take the comfort objection away from anyone deciding about headsets at work. ZDNET's demo found the displays and the surface typing to be the weaker parts.
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A new filing in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft builds its market-harm argument out of the two companies' own internal documents, obtained in discovery. Anyone shipping an answer feature on these models sits downstream of it.
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Anthropic's redesigned Projects beta enforces one ceiling, 200 new threads a day, and it has not published a usage figure for a single thread. Subscribers see what a project drew only afterwards, in the Usage tab.
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Writing in Forbes, OpenVPN chief executive Francis Dinha names Turbo VPN and VyprVPN among providers found on a 2019 build and puts the exposure in what vendors did with the code after they took it.
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ZDNET's reviewer wore both flagships for three weeks and says apps decided it. Every difference the piece actually enumerates is first-party health software, which is a different question.
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OpenAI has put its paused computer-use model into a few customers' hands, where the speed gain arrives alongside a reasoning trail outside investigators say is harder to follow. The containment work now sits with the customer.
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Google has wired 100,000 eligible ebooks into Gemini Notebook behind a per-reader ownership check. Every other catalog owner now has to decide whether a grounded answer sells the book or replaces it.
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Perplexity's Personal Computer feature now runs on Windows 10 and 11 for paying subscribers, and the ZDNet hands-on suggests its output is only as trustworthy as the person who can already check it.
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Google's ECH support hides the destination domain from anything watching the TLS handshake, but only when the app's networking library and the site's CDN both cooperate, so the breakage arrives unevenly.
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ZDNet rates stillOS onboarding among the best it has seen in Linux. What it praises is a seven-category app picker and updates that apply themselves at reboot, which is precisely the part a managed fleet strips out.
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A survey of 1,800 professionals finds 91% saying their firm still falls short on AI. The remedy its chief operations officer names is fewer tools with owners attached, plus a date on which a failed pilot dies.
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The vendor numbers on agent counts and build speed keep improving while the consultancy numbers on process and workforce readiness barely move, which tells you where next quarter's real work sits.
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OpenAI says the model never sees your password. BeyondTrust's Morey Haber told ZDNet that misses the point, because once the session exists an attacker can work inside it with all of your entitlements.
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The list reads like an engineering syllabus because it was built from engineering postings. What the critics add is the part that only surfaces after launch.
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FydeOS costs nothing and starts in eight seconds on a 2019 Core i3. The hard part is a download page that expects you to know which Intel generation you own.
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Portable Computer runs Perplexity's agent on 27B models on your own hardware. Paid tiers only, Linux first, Windows in September, and a 24GB VRAM floor most desktops miss.
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A survey of 501 senior leaders puts 15% at scaled multi-agent orchestration and 16% with processes ready for it. The rest of the numbers explain why those two track each other.
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The convergence plan dates to 2009, and ZDNET expects the first machines in September. What Google has not published is where Gemini's screen context goes, or what it costs.
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Filings for Ace Ultra headphones and a Beam successor are documents you can read. The assistant meant to make them matter is still a line from an earnings call.
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