Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — [...]

New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake

Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, [...]

Your next laptop could hit new heights of brightness as Samsung introduces new OLED panels for Lenovo, Asus, MSI and Dell machines

Tandem OLED panels are taking OLED experiences to new heights, and Samsung has seemingly nailed it yet again with its new '1,600-nit' OLED panels for laptops. [...]

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audi [...]

New ransomware targets AI model weights and can't even collect the ransom

The same attacker broke into the same internet-facing Langflow server twice, and the second time brought ransomware built to destroy trained AI models. Sysdig's Threat Research Team documented th [...]

Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could resha [...]

Amazon reportedly scales back its Nova AI models and bets on a new Frontier research team

Amazon is scaling back most of its in-house Nova AI models, including Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas. The models stay online for existing customers in "keep the lights on" mode but are [...]

Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.

Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. No [...]

The New York Times falls short on digital subscribers as competition bites

The New York Times has hit a rare bump in an otherwise smooth climb. The publisher added 280,000 net digital subscribers in the second quarter, short of Wall Street’s forecasts, and its shares slipp [...]