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Forbes - ChatGPT Atlas ‘90% More Vulnerable’ To Attacks Than Google Chrome, Report Says
This works by way of cross-site request forgery requests. CSRFs plan “malicious instructions” in ChatGPT’s persistent memory. “When the user attempts to use ChatGPT for legitimate purposes, the tainted memories will be invoked, and can execute remote code that will allow the attacker to gain control of the user account, their browser, code they are writing, or systems they have access to.”
Security
Network World - AI’s dark side shows in Gartner’s top predictions for IT orgs
On the skills front, Gartner warns that atrophy of critical-thinking skills, due to GenAI use, will push 50% of global organizations to require “AI-free” skills assessments through 2026. “As enterprises expand their use of GenAI, hiring practices will begin to differentiate sharply between candidates who can think independently and those who lean too heavily on machine-generated output,” Gartner stated. “Recruitment will increasingly emphasize the ability to demonstrate problem-solving, evidence evaluation and judgment without AI assistance.”
AI
"Many data engineers are using one tool to collect data, one tool to process data and another to run analytics on that data," Chris Child, VP of product for data engineering at Snowflake, told VentureBeat. "Using several tools along this data lifecycle introduces complexity, risk and increased infrastructure management, which data engineers can't afford to take on."
Data Management
Computerworld - AI chatbots are wrong about news 45% of the time, study finds
In the study, more than 3,000 AI responses from Chat GPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were analyzed by professional journalists. The results showed that 45% of all responses contained at least one serious error, 31% had inadequate or misleading source citations, and 20% contained major factual errors such as fabricated details or outdated information.
AI Chat
Network World - AI dominates Gartner’s top strategic technology trends for 2026
Prediction: By 2028, more than 40% of leading enterprises will have adopted hybrid computing paradigm architectures into critical business workflows, up from the current 8%, according to Gartner.
Tech Trends
Forbes - 5 AI-Era Skills Mistakes That Will Cost Your Business Millions In 2026
In this new world, upskilling, reskilling and continuous education aren't tasks for HR to tick off; they're business priorities. With one IDC report predicting that $5.5 trillion will be lost to the world economy due to the mismatch between workforce skills and industry needs, it’s clear many are being held back from addressing them.
AI
SiliconANGLE - The zero-loss enterprise: Data resilience as an AI service layer
In particular, our survey data indicates nearly 70% of firms protect less than half of their AI-generated data, the very data that will deliver the competitive advantage promised by AI. Moreover, there seems to be quite a dissonance between the perceived and actual maturity of AI capabilities, with serious gaps in areas such as cyber, regulatory compliance, governance and data integration capabilities that we believe will challenge AI outcomes.
AI/Data
VentureBeat - GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close
In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own hands-on performance testing, reveals an industry paradox: developers want speed, but enterprise buyers demand security, compliance and deployment control. This disconnect is reshaping the market, driving adoption patterns that contradict mainstream performance benchmarks.
AI Coding
Forbes - The 7 Cyber Security Trends Of 2026 That Everyone Must Be Ready For
Experts say that if cybercrime were a nation in 2026, it would be the world’s third-largest economy, behind the U.S. and China, costing businesses an estimated $20 trillion. So here are what I believe will be top trends driving this unprecedented global crime wave over the next 12 months.
Security
Computerworld - MacStadium sees Apple adoption accelerating across US enterprises
It shows not only that 96% of US CIOs expect their Mac fleets to grow in the coming 12 to 24 months, but that Apple already accounts for an average of 65% of enterprise endpoints. The adoption is delivering big benefits in productivity, reliability, and employee retention, but as usage grows some of the remaining weak points in what Apple offers to business are emerging.
Tech Trends
Forbes - The 8 Biggest AI Trends For 2026 That Everyone Must Be Ready For Now
Synthetic content undoubtedly has its place, such as analyzing and pulling insights from data that moves too quickly for humans to deal with. But when it’s used to replace human insight and experience, it lacks authenticity and risks swamping us in a stream of generic, low-value content. In 2026, the challenge for those with genuinely valuable experiences to share will be to find ways to ensure their creativity and human voice rise beyond the tide of "AI slop” and remain visible.
AI
Network World - AI spending to reach $1.5 trillion this year, Gartner says
All in all, the Gartner analyst sees the figures as a clear sign that AI is inevitable. “We are no longer in a situation where people are debating whether AI will come or not,” he explains. By 2028, it will be practically impossible to buy a phone, PC, tablet or laptop without generative AI being integrated. “Generative AI will be built into the operating systems that control all our technology and will be included in every product available for purchase. The idea that you can wait or ignore the technology will then completely disappear.”
AI
VentureBeat - Shadow AI doubles every 18 months, creating blind spots SOCs never see
Deepfakes will cost $40 billion by 2027. AI agents are multiplying beyond control. Machine identities are exploding exponentially. Security leaders are racing to build defenses for threats that didn't exist 18 months ago.
AI/Security
The research firm published its latest AI spending forecast, which projects that in 2025, the market will reach $1.5 trillion, and by 2026, it will top $2 trillion. This is slightly more than double spending in 2024. Much of this spending is also defined by the continuous expansion of AI into products, with GenAI smartphones being the biggest project spending category in 2026, over AI services.
Tech Trends
ZDNet - The IT job market keeps shrinking, but not for everyone - or everywhere
First, let's get the bad news out of the way: The current IT unemployment rate is 4.5%, according to a recent report from Janco, which estimates there are at least 118,000 unemployed IT professionals at this time. In the last 24 months, the IT job market has shrunk by over 179,000 jobs, the consultancy said. The IT job market shrank by 131,200 in the last 13 months and by over 179,000 in the last 24 months. Also, this is the third year in a row of shrinkage.
Tech Jobs
Diginomica - Your best people are leaving, warns Workday - and no-one trusts your AI strategy
Overall, internal hiring is down 8% on last year. Promotion rates have fallen hardest in healthcare, down 26%, while other industries with double-digit drops including education (-17%), non-profit and retail (-14%), public sector and tech and media, (both -13%). The sole industry to show a rise in promotion prospects was manufacturing, up 6%.
Tech Jobs
Computerworld - Tech employment is a mixed bag, selective hiring marks a shift
Revised BLS data shows the IT job market shrank by 9,600 so far this year, after downward adjustments in June (-4,500), July (-10,900), and a loss of 1,300 jobs in August, according to Janulaitis. “Despite this, over 200,000 IT positions remain open,” he said. “Adjustments at those levels of magnitude are not acceptable from any organization. It can only be due to poor data capture, poor infrastructure, incompetence, or political gerrymandering.”
Tech Jobs
Computerworld - AI and clean energy drive job growth, reshape US labor market
Spend on AI prompt engineering is up 52% year-over-year, and demand is growing for skills like generative AI modeling and AI agent design, according to Upwork. New roles like Chief AI Officer are emerging, but the bigger shift is how AI now touches everything — from writing and design to project management and finance. It’s becoming a general-purpose technology transforming how all work gets done.
Tech Jobs
About the only thing that seems relatively certain is the cause of the potential AI bubble burst. It’s identical to what triggered the dot-com implosion in the summer of 2000: untenable business plans backed by VCs and other investors propping up businesses with no meaningful or near-term path to strong profitability.
AI
AI-powered analytics is set to transform how businesses operate—by predicting market trends, optimizing supply chains, and reducing operational risks. Machine learning models will continuously refine these decisions through the analysis of historical and real-time data. Businesses will embed AI more deeply into customer service, financial operations, and workflow management to enhance personalization and operational efficiency.
Tech Trends
Computerworld - Could Microsoft’s AI billions go up in smoke?
Gartner has documented the booms and busts of new technologies for decades by tracking what it calls their “hype cycles.” The company has been tracking AI’s hype cycle and warns, “last year’s Hype Cycle for AI highlighted genAI as a potentially transformational technology with profound business impacts. This year, genAI enters the Trough of Disillusionment.” The researcher also found that, “Despite an average spend of $1.9 million on genAI initiatives in 2024, less than 30% of AI leaders report their CEOs are happy with AI investment return investment return. “
AI
SiliconANGLE - Fastly report finds AI bots are reshaping the balance of web traffic
In terms of which companies are doing what, Meta Platforms Inc. leads the crawler category at 52% of observed traffic, followed by Google LLC at 23% and OpenAI at 20%. Despite ranking third in request volume, OpenAI’s GPTBot covered the widest share of unique websites, indexing 95% of all domains observed in the study.
AI
VentureBeat - Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance
Distillation is key here; a full model could initially be trained from scratch and then refined for a specific task. DeepSeek R1, for instance, is “so huge that most organizations can’t afford to use it” because you need at least 8 GPUs, Luccioni noted. By contrast, distilled versions can be 10, 20 or even 30X smaller and run on a single GPU.
AI
Computerworld - Questionable AI work habits rampant among US firms
Of note, it said, “half (50%) of executives say they’d prefer AI managers over a human, although 34% aren’t entirely sure they can tell the difference between an AI agent and a real employee. Over a third of business leaders (38%) admit they don’t know what an AI agent is — the highest of any role. Almost the same proportion (35%) of C-suite executives said they have submitted proprietary company information so AI could complete a task for them.”
AI
VentureBeat - That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget
The research, conducted by AI firm Nous Research, found that open-weight models use between 1.5 to 4 times more tokens — the basic units of AI computation — than closed models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic. For simple knowledge questions, the gap widened dramatically, with some open models using up to 10 times more tokens.
AI
VentureBeat - Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones
The survey, led by researchers from Zhejiang University and OPPO AI Center, comes as major technology companies race to deploy AI agents that can perform complex digital tasks. OpenAI recently launched “Operator,” Anthropic released “Computer Use,” Apple introduced enhanced AI capabilities in “Apple Intelligence,” and Google unveiled “Project Mariner” — all systems designed to automate computer interactions.
AI
Forbes - New Study Shows AI Is AI Biased Toward AI. 10 Steps To Protect Yourself
In the digital landscape of 2025, where artificial intelligence generates everything from news articles to marketing copy, a troubling pattern has emerged: AI systems consistently favor content created by other AI systems over human-written text. This "self-preference bias" isn’t just a technical curiosity — it's reshaping how information flows through our digital ecosystem, often in ways we don't even realize.
AI Ethics
ZDNet - Gen AI disillusionment looms, according to Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle report
Gartner said multimodal AI and risk management infrastructure, despite also "dominating the Peak of Inflated Expectations," each show promise with fewer caveats. Both will be adopted by the mainstream in the next five years and "will enable more robust, innovative and responsible AI applications, transforming how businesses and organizations operate."
AI
The Hacker News - AI Slashes Workloads for vCISOs by 68% as SMBs Demand More – New Report Reveals
vCISO offerings provide a flexible, cost-effective way for organizations to access high-level cybersecurity expertise without the overhead of a full-time executive. And with a growing number of attacks alongside the growing awareness of the importance of cybersecurity, it's no surprise that demand for vCISO services is skyrocketing among SMBs. Demand for vCISO services is outpacing even compliance readiness and cyber insurance support.
Security
ZDNet - How AI amplifies these other tech trends that matter most to business in 2025
The healthiest companies of the future are autonomous companies. Autonomous companies utilize a hybrid workforce, embracing AI-first strategies and digital labor to scale speed, scale, and intelligence. When done right, AI agents will unlock unprecedented value creation opportunities with non-linear positive impact that can only be realized via autonomous AI agents.
Tech Trends
Network World - SD-WAN reality check: Why enterprise ‘rip-and-replace’ isn’t happening
The market is fairly mature, and SD-WAN deployments are now nearly ubiquitous among large enterprises, according to ISG’s 2025 Provider Lens Network Software-defined Solutions and Services report. Small and medium-sized businesses are also showing growing adoption. But one deployment trend that hasn’t take off is the full-blown, rip-and-replacement of legacy networks.
Network Management
Dark Reading - Threat Actors Increasingly Leaning on GenAI Tools
Moreover, organizations' increasing integration of AI means threat actors have a new attack surface to exploit. CrowdStrike highlighted how, in April, it saw multiple threat actors exploit a Langflow AI vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-3248 to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. Langflow AI is a popular tool used for building AI agents.
Security
Information Week - Executives and Employees Aren’t on the Same Page With AI
But if you dig deeper, cracks begin to show. Only 32% of learning and development respondents believe their current training programs are effectively closing verified skills gaps. When you ask employees for their view, the confidence drops off a cliff.
AI
Dark Reading - SIEMs: Dying a Slow Death or Poised for AI Rebirth?
In a recent online poll, Dark Reading asked readers about the future of security information and event management (SIEM) platforms in security operations. With more than 1,400 responses, 40% said SIEMs should be folded into extended detection and response (XDR) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms or other security tools, while 35% said the product category still has legs as it incorporates AI and modernizes.
Security
This is the story of the moment. AI is redefining entrepreneurship, allowing people with a vision and cultural understanding — but not necessarily computer-science degrees — to ship platform-level products. But questions are mounting: Can this new model of entrepreneurship scale beyond prototype success without deeper engineering muscle?
AI
SiliconANGLE - Cloud breaches and identity hacks explode in CrowdStrike’s latest threat report
Headlining the report was a finding that interactive intrusions rose 27% year-over-year between July 2024 and June 2025, with a highly surprising 81% of attacks found to be malware-free. CrowdStrike said the shift away from leading with malware signals a move toward stealthier techniques such as credential abuse, lateral movement and defense evasion.
Security
ITPro Today - The Resilience Paradox: Why 90% of IT Teams Overestimate Their Operational Readiness
Confidence vs. Reality Gap: 90% of IT professionals describe their organizations as resilient, yet fewer than half feel confident handling core challenges like BYOD policies (26%), AI integration (38%), and remote workforce management (45%).
IT Management
The core promise of the public cloud—“pay only for what you use”—can become a double-edged sword for AI. High-performance AI systems rely on specialized hardware, such as Nvidia GPUs or TPUs, which are costly to rent and often underutilized without continuous workload optimization. Furthermore, many AI tasks require scaling across fleets of compute instances, a process that generates additional expenses for network traffic, storage retrieval, and latency reduction.
Cloud
Computerworld - Apple’s results show the Windows-to-Mac switch is happening
It seems clear the forced need to upgrade Windows is motivating many business users to move to the Mac instead. This trend has been ongoing for some time, but seems to have become even more apparent in recent months — Apple’s most recent quarterly financial call confirmed double-digit growth in Mac sales during Q3 ’25.
IT Management
ZDNet - Anthropic beats OpenAI as the top LLM provider for business - and it's not even close
In other words, Menlo Ventures has billions of reasons to praise Anthropic. That said, others also view Anthropic as the top enterprise AI company. As AI Magazine put it, "Anthropic has established itself as the premier enterprise AI company through its Claude family of LLMs, achieving remarkable 1,000% year-over-year growth to reach $3 billion in annual recurring revenue." Even by hyper-aggressive AI standards, that's real growth.
LLM
Information Week - 2026 Budgets: What’s on Top of CIOs’ Lists (and What Should Be)
So much competitive advantage is going to whether or not you have full-stack engineering capability with cyber and cloud AI embedded. “Have you invested in tooling and platforms, so your teams don't have to do everything from environments and pre-configured cloud hosting to the tool chain for your full CI/CD?” Briggs asks.
IT Management