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Why ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are No Place for Secrets: 5 Risks and What to Do After a Leak
Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini encourage openness, but those conversations can be stored, reviewed by people, and used outside your control.
NiCE Cognigy showed how AI agents and humans will manage customer service together
At Nexus 2026, NiCE Cognigy presented a platform where AI agents, operators, and AI assistants work in a single environment, turning the contact center into a CX orchestration layer.
Project Nomad turns a Debian PC into an offline knowledge hub with local AI, maps, and Wikipedia
Project NOMAD is an open system for Debian and Ubuntu that, once installed, provides offline access to local AI, Wikipedia, maps, educational courses, and reference materials without internet.
Google introduces TurboQuant: how the new compression lowers the cost of local AI
Google’s new algorithm compresses the KV cache of language models in real time, promising up to 6x memory savings and faster inference, but it does not end the costly AI infrastructure race.
Noi brings ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini into one desktop app without extra switching
Noi combines popular AI services and local models in one desktop interface so users can work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Ollama without constantly switching tabs and windows.
MIT report: AI will reshape text-based work gradually rather than eliminate professions all at once
MIT research shows that AI is getting better at text tasks, but its impact on the labor market will build step by step, giving companies and workers time to adapt.
ZDNet: BlueOptima showed that AI for code in production is noticeably weaker than promised
ZDNet breaks down BlueOptima's findings: the best AI models for code succeed in fewer than 23% of production tasks, and the main adoption risk lies in inflated expectations and weak expertise.
Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson: AI won’t eliminate programming jobs, it will expand the market
Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson believes AI will not devastate the labor market for developers: it will speed up work, create new roles, and bring many more people into software development.
ZDNet compared ChatGPT and Claude: OpenAI stronger on features, Anthropic on writing and logic
ZDNet tested ChatGPT and Claude across ten work and everyday scenarios and concluded that Claude writes and reasons better, while ChatGPT wins on voice, images, and integrations.
Google showed how Gmail with Gemini turns months of correspondence into one report in 10 minutes
A new AI search in Gmail showed practical value: with three prompts, Gemini compiled statuses for five vendors, found the right contacts, and drafted an email instead of requiring a manual review of threads.
Raspberry Pi 5 gets much more expensive amid the AI boom: 16 GB boards now cost as much as a laptop
Raspberry Pi said the latest board price hike was driven by a sevenfold rise in LPDDR4 prices: memory is being diverted to AI data centers, and higher-end Pi 5 versions are already losing their budget-device status.
AI assistants help develop applications by voice and question the role of traditional IDEs
A keyboard-free development experiment showed that AI assistants already let users move real projects forward with voice and mouse, although it is still too early for them to fully replace IDEs.
Google Photos launches AI Enhance on Android: auto-cropping, lighting and color — with some misses
Google has begun the global rollout of AI Enhance in Google Photos for Android: the one-tap tool adjusts lighting, color and cropping, but sometimes crops photos too aggressively.
ChatGPT can now search for movies and TV shows on Tubi: a free catalog of 300,000 titles
ChatGPT has received an integration with Tubi and can now recommend movies and TV shows from the streaming service’s free catalog, which includes more than 300,000 titles and episodes.
Google updated AI Mode in Search: results now open alongside and reduce tab chaos
Google changed AI Mode in Search: results users open are now shown next to the query window so they can read sources without extra switching and dozens of new tabs.
Linus Torvalds approved AI code rules for Linux: humans bear responsibility
Linux has officially allowed AI assistance in kernel development, but barred models from signing patches and placed all legal and technical responsibility on humans.
Google released Gemini for Mac: the native app is better than the website because it can access window contents
Gemini’s native Mac app turned out to be more useful than the web version: it analyzes the contents of a window shared from the desktop and answers right away based on the current document, email, spreadsheet, or note.
Cisco, PwC and Wyndham showed how they are actually retraining employees to work with AI
Amid talk of layoffs due to AI, some companies are betting not on cuts but on retraining: Cisco is rolling out mandatory courses, PwC is redefining roles, and Wyndham is speeding up service.
Hostinger became the leader among AI website builders, and the market finally matured in 2026
ZDNet updated its test of AI website builders and for the first time found them suitable for real work: Hostinger took the lead, and GoDaddy learned to edit CSS.
Google added Skills to Chrome for saving AI prompts and launching them in one click
Google launched Skills in Chrome, a Gemini feature that saves effective AI prompts, runs them on the current page and selected tabs, and lets users edit them for their own tasks.
Google released a Windows desktop app with quick access to Gemini and Lens
Google has made the Google app for desktop available to all Windows users: via Alt + Space, they can launch Gemini, Lens, web search, and file search without a browser.
McKinsey outlines four steps to scale agentic AI with high-quality data
McKinsey says AI agents cannot be scaled without four basic steps: choosing valuable workflows, upgrading the data architecture, ensuring data quality, and introducing governance.
ChatGPT and Perplexity can harm work and health with prolonged use
ZDNet warns that long sessions with AI chatbots increase the risk of mistakes, false confidence, and harmful decisions, so tasks should be strictly limited and responses should be checked.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 — a model with a swarm of a thousand AI agents
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K2.6, a model that can run up to a thousand parallel agents to tackle complex engineering tasks. The new approach could redefine AI-assisted development.
ChatGPT Images 2.0: a test of branding, text, and infographics — impressive, but not without errors
A ZDNet journalist tested ChatGPT Images 2.0 on real-world work tasks — branding, text, and infographics. The result is impressive, but with caveats.
Meta and OpenAI overpay for Moltbook and OpenClaw amid the agentic AI wave
ZDNet argues that Meta's Moltbook deal and OpenAI's hiring of OpenClaw's creator are a bet on hype: the products generate buzz, but are immature, insecure and no longer unique.
Karakeep helps organize articles, links, and YouTube tabs with AI
Karakeep turns the chaos of articles, research, and YouTube tabs into a tidy archive: AI automatically adds tags, creates brief summaries, and sorts everything by rules.
Nvidia added the NemoClaw security stack to OpenClaw for personal AI agents
Nvidia introduced NemoClaw for OpenClaw: the new stack runs agents in a sandbox, limits access to the network and files, and decides when to use local or cloud models.
Nvidia wants to cover the entire AI data center stack — from chips to networking and storage
At GTC 2026, Nvidia showed that it wants to sell companies not standalone GPUs, but an entire AI data center: compute, CPUs, networking, KV-cache storage, and software as a single system.
NVIDIA at GTC 2026 announced a 'ChatGPT moment' for self-driving cars and robots
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA said self-driving technology had reached a new milestone, expanded its robotaxi partnership with Uber, and updated its physical AI stack for robots, simulation, and training.