Thought Leadership
Increase of 49.5 percent
According to Gartner, worldwide AI spending will rise by 49.5 percent to 2.7 trillion US dollars in 2026.
Incidents Reported in Recent Weeks
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has disclosed new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) behaved “unexpectedly or concerningly” during testing.
Quantum-safe signature
With Apple Reference Image, iPhone photos are intended to be cryptographically verifiably authentic and unedited in the future.
Sharp Criticism
Andy Nguyen is ending his PS5 Linux project after AI-assisted modders reported a deliberately undisclosed vulnerability to Sony.
Higher target valuation
OpenAI is in early talks regarding a pre-IPO funding round with a valuation of more than 1.2 trillion dollars.
Market forces instead of new laws
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI safety is a technical problem and does not need new laws.
Irreparably damaged
Six months after the drone attacks during the Iran war, Amazon Web Services delivers a sobering assessment: A portion of the destroyed cloud infrastructure in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will suffer permanent outages.
Competition as a Safety Mechanism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg favors self-regulation as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI call for a slower pace of AI development.
Dreamforce 2026
At its Dreamforce flagship conference in San Francisco, Salesforce introduced a new AI model named Koa. It is designed specifically for customer relationship management (CRM) to handle multi-step reasoning processes and support both sales representatives and AI agents.
Lukewarm demand
Apple’s new Pro models are encountering less interest than expected, according to a market analyst.