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Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too

Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI

Microsoft Edge has admitted that AI-assisted coding is flooding its extension review pipeline with more submissions than ever. To cope, the company is automating repetitive validation checks and streamlining how reviews move through the pipeline, while insisting it maintains the same quality and security standards. This follows a similar admission from Microsoft's Exchange team about AI uncovering too many bugs.

Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness

Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you

As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat

Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine

Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement

Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

Microsoft says AI-powered vulnerability hunting is creating a backlog of extra work that is delaying Exchange Server SE Cumulative Update 1, with no release date yet.

Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions

$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!

You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers

ShieldFont is an open-source project that uses OpenType font features to replace words in HTML with grammatically equivalent but nonsense alternatives, making AI scrapers ingest poisoned data while human readers see normal text. It aims to deter unauthorized scraping by introducing uncertainty and cost, though it can be bypassed via OCR or targeted decryption and may impact SEO and accessibility.

Microsoft reported $90B in Q4 FY2026 revenue (+18% YoY), beating estimates. Cloud revenue hit $59.3B (+27%), Azure up 43%, and M365 Copilot paid users grew 50% QoQ. Capex reached $41B (+70% YoY), but operating cash flow remained strong.

Perplexity expands its Model Council to the Computer platform, allowing users to select 2-8 AI models to independently analyze issues and produce a synthesis report. The feature, previously enterprise-only, is now available to Pro and Max subscribers with usage-based pricing.

A college professor tired of reading AI-generated essay responses hid a white-text instruction in an essay prompt, telling AI to insert 'Madagascar' nonsensically. All 35 students fell for it, submitting bizarre answers. The incident highlights concerns about AI's impact on critical thinking and academic integrity.

A new study finds that leading AI models consistently land in the libertarian-left quadrant on the Political Compass, with Elon Musk's 'maximally truth-seeking' Grok showing a split personality. The likely cause: left-leaning training data.

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap.

IBM tells investors Q2 software weakness was temporary due to AI spending, with a third of deferred deals already closing. It launches Project Lightwell to fix legacy open source security using AI, at $1M annual subscription.

The European Commission announced two specification decisions requiring Google to open up search data to rivals and enhance Android AI interoperability for third-party assistants. Google objects, citing privacy and security concerns.

Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. The report highlights shifts to usage-based billing by Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, and Microsoft, and notes that despite layoffs, IT staffing costs remain high. It recommends adapting FinOps practices to manage unpredictable AI costs.

This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth

Autopilot-Jobhunt is an AI tool that scans job postings, matches them to a user's resume, and notifies via Telegram. It can also generate tailored resumes and cover letters, but never auto-applies. It uses free AI models and prioritizes privacy.