The Metropolitan Police has suspended its use of digital forensics software from Oxygen Forensics. The move follows explosive US allegations that the Virginia-based firm was secretly controlled by Russian nationals and developed its tools in Moscow, with connections to Russia’s FSB security service. Scotland Yard confirmed the pause and a full review last week. A

Suno built its name on turning simple text prompts into complete songs. Now the company wants to score the spoken word too. On October 1, Suno opened a public beta of Speech, a new capability that generates synthetic voices reading scripts or prompted ideas while simultaneously composing original background music to accompany them. The result

Meta launched Muse barely a month ago. The personal AI agent, styled as a helpful character named Jolly, shot to the top of the U.S. App Store charts. Users rushed to try its promises of booking travel, managing emails and handling errands on their behalf. Yet one analysis already flags a troubling first. Muse has

Security researchers uncovered a vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT application for macOS that could have handed over complete control of the desktop client to any malicious code already running on a user’s machine. The bug, now fixed, allowed attackers to bypass trust checks between app components and inject commands that the main process would treat as

Software used to be simple. One customer, one seat, almost zero incremental cost. Finance teams closed the books each quarter and moved on. Those days ended when AI arrived. Every query, every generation, every agent interaction now burns compute. Tokens add up fast. A single large enterprise customer can quietly drain margins before anyone in

Elite programmers who coax peak performance from Nvidia chips once spent their days crafting intricate code by hand. That era is fading fast. Today many of them direct fleets of AI coding agents instead, reviewing machine-generated kernels that sometimes outperform anything a person could design alone. The shift strikes at the heart of Nvidia’s long

Business leaders once treated cyberattacks as distant threats best left to the IT department. No longer. A single successful breach now serves as the harshest possible examination of whether an organization can keep operating when systems go dark. Nearly half of chief information security officers who lived through a cyber incident watched operations grind to

Artificial intelligence has arrived on trading floors, in compliance offices and across back rooms at the biggest U.S. banks. Far from simply removing headcount, the technology is first expanding it. Job postings tied to AI at JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One jumped 49 percent this year from 2025, reaching 139,819 listings. The data comes

Tech executives have spent years chasing artificial general intelligence. Now several say the prize sits in their hands. OpenAI President Greg Brockman looked at the company’s latest model and told reporters it marked a new period. “Welcome to the AGI era,” he said after the September launch of GPT-6 Astra. His words carried weight. They

One afternoon last summer a Waymo robotaxi rolled into a parking lot in San Mateo County, California. It stayed put until police arrived. The reason? Company staff monitoring live feeds from interior cameras had spotted two teenagers with what appeared to be a handgun. They called 911. Officers found a loaded ghost gun and arrested