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According to a new survey from identity security company Delinea, 99.7% of IT and security leaders said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.
OpenAI has introduced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users' feedback as they go.
Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to recent research from Digital Realty.
Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption, according to a report from telecommunications provider Arelion.
OpenAI has announced it will retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.
Class CrunchLabs, the suite of free curriculum resources from NASA engineer turned YouTube science communicator Mark Rober, has released its first two courses on YouTube.
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face recently joined AI researcher Yoshua Bengio at the United Nations headquarters in New York to warn the UN Security Council about the security risks of increasingly capable AI.
Microsoft has announced that it's redesigning Copilot, the company's all-encompassing AI assistant, so users can hand off complex tasks, build tools by describing what they need and assign work to an agent that keeps going after they log off.
Microsoft has shut down EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.
A vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring, and containing enterprise AI agents.