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OpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam Altman described as “remarkably capable, always-on” agents powered by GPT‑6 Astra. Dots have their own cloud computer, can be accessed in ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams, […]

BOSTON — Business leaders are looking beyond a single-minded focus on artificial intelligence and the returns generated by individual agents as they confront the broader challenge of continuously reinventing their organizations around what emerging technologies make possible. This shifting mindset emerged during CIO 100 Leadership Live Boston, where discussions began with the human dimensions of […]

Xi Jinping left Washington on September 25 with an agreement to keep talking, a phone line and on generated text, images, audio and video. The White House fact sheet lists three AI items: the leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence,” established a dialogue with the next exchange due by November 2026, and agreed […]

LiquidStack, a Trane Technologies business, has introduced a new configurable coolant distribution unit (CDU) platform designed to help data center operators deploy and scale liquid cooling as AI accelerator performance and rack densities continue to increase. The company unveiled the LiquidStack CDU 2.X at Yotta 2026 in Ireland. The architecture-agnostic platform is designed to support […]

Apple is reportedly exploring a return to the enterprise server market with an AI-focused system built around its own silicon and potentially connected using Nvidia technology. In mid-September, The Information reported that Apple is considering servers based on future M8-series processors, with a potential launch around 2029. The project remains preliminary and could change or […]

AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform. AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus, which reaches general availability on Sept. 30. […]

True to its name, AI-model-training tool Unsloth would do more work than it was asked to when developers checked out a model: It would also allow arbitrary code to execute on their machines. Pillar Security found that simply selecting a model in Unsloth Studio caused the application to download and execute Python code from the […]

For nearly a decade, multi-factor authentication has been the control every security leader points to when asked how they’ve reduced account takeover risk. It sits on almost every compliance checklist and nearly every cyber insurance questionnaire, and for good reason — adding a second factor to a password login closed off an enormous share of […]

AI containment is essential, but security leaders should assume every boundary can fail once an agent can communicate, use tools, and act on real systems. On September 17, podcaster Steven Bartlett asked four AI experts an unusual question: Could you build a jail for a digital Einstein? The panel on The Diary of a CEO […]