HP’s Future of Work Accelerator Takes on AI’s Entry-Level Catch-22
AI & Automation
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HP’s Future of Work Accelerator Takes on AI’s Entry-Level Catch-22

October 1, 2026
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Last week, I served as a judge at the HP Future of Work Accelerator Pitch Fest. My fellow judges were Antara Lahiri, director of the Micron Foundation for Asia Pacific and Europe; Catherina Gioino, a multimedia journalist and urbanist; and Michele Malejki, the HP executive who leads the Accelerator program.

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AI Users Know They Should Check Answers. Many Don’t
AI & Automation
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AI Users Know They Should Check Answers. Many Don’t

September 30, 2026
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Most AI users say they should verify chatbot answers, yet many do so only sometimes or less often, according to a survey by cybersecurity company F-Secure. The survey of 1,500 AI users in the U.S. and U.K. found that nearly 90% said they were responsible for verifying AI answers, yet

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Enterprise AI Pilots Look Easy. Production Is the Hard Part
AI & Automation
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Enterprise AI Pilots Look Easy. Production Is the Hard Part

September 29, 2026
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An artificial intelligence (AI) pilot can impress in a controlled demonstration. Then employees try to use it with real customer records, restricted data, and systems that were never part of the test. For enterprises, that is where the harder work begins: making AI reliable enough for daily operations and valuable

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AI Isn’t the Apocalypse. Technology Analysts Need to Say So
AI & Automation
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AI Isn’t the Apocalypse. Technology Analysts Need to Say So

September 26, 2026
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The AI debate has developed a strange pattern. An AI model produces unexpected or potentially scary results, someone predicts the end of humanity, and the conversation jumps straight to whether civilization has only a few years left. Missing somewhere between the demonstration and the obituary is the evidence. We should

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AI Bots Push Beyond Web Scraping Into Customer Accounts
AI & Automation
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AI Bots Push Beyond Web Scraping Into Customer Accounts

September 24, 2026
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Malicious automated internet traffic is growing more than nine times faster than human traffic, while AI bots are increasingly accessing login pages and other sensitive areas of websites, according to a report released Tuesday by a bot and agent trust management company. The report (registration required) by DataDome, based on

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AI Safety’s False Choice: Wait for Harm or Hit Pause
AI & Automation
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AI Safety’s False Choice: Wait for Harm or Hit Pause

September 23, 2026
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If there is one thing I’ve learned covering the tech industry for decades, it’s that when billions of dollars are on the line, commercial and strategic interests can overwhelm caution. We are watching an extraordinary technological arms race unfold, and the people leading it bring very different assumptions about how

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AI Cyberattacks Are Outrunning Enterprise Defenses
AI & Automation
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AI Cyberattacks Are Outrunning Enterprise Defenses

September 21, 2026
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Cybersecurity has reached an inflection point as machine-speed attacks increasingly outpace human response. AI-driven attacks are testing perimeter defenses and overwhelming manual triage, forcing security teams to rethink defensive playbooks built for human-speed threats. In an open letter issued in late August, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and more than

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AI Agent Security Is Recreating the Password Problem
AI & Automation
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AI Agent Security Is Recreating the Password Problem

September 11, 2026
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Passwords became a security problem because they could be separated from the people they were meant to authenticate. Once shared or stolen, the same secret could be reused until someone detected the misuse and revoked the credential. Enterprises have spent years moving away from that model toward access tied more

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Apple Unfolds iPhone Duo at $1,999
Gadgets & Apps
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Apple Unfolds iPhone Duo at $1,999

September 11, 2026
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Apple raised the curtain on its much-anticipated foldable iPhone at a streaming video event Wednesday. The new iPhone Duo, which will start at US$1,999 and ship October 23, is about the size of a passport — 5.4 inches diagonally — when closed, but still offers about 90% of the screen

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OpenAI Commits $1B in AI Cyber Aid to Frontline Defenders
AI & Automation
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OpenAI Commits $1B in AI Cyber Aid to Frontline Defenders

September 10, 2026
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OpenAI has launched a global initiative backed by a US$1 billion commitment to expand subsidized access to AI cybersecurity capabilities, training, technical support, and partnerships for organizations that protect essential services. Called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, the initiative initially focuses on U.S. water and wastewater systems, electric grid operators, state

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