Father’s Day sees intense spending build-up in final week, fragrance is key gift item
We hear a lot about the impact of Mother’s day but less about Father’s Day,…
Bi-directional streaming for real-time agent interactions now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Building natural voice conversations with AI agents requires complex infrastructure and lots of code from engineering teams. Text-based agent interactions follow a turn-based pattern: a user sends a complete request, waits for the agent to process it, and receives a full response before continuing. Bi-directional streaming removes this constraint by establishing a persistent connection that…
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings—including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position—to help mimic…
What to Know About Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Federal Efforts at Regulation
The price of prescription drugs in the U.S. continues to be a concerning issue to the public, with KFF polling consistently showing the public supports various approaches to lowering prescription drug costs. Efforts to rein in drug costs have long been a priority for both federal and state policymakers. The Trump administration has recently taken…
Build and deploy scalable AI agents with NVIDIA NeMo, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents
This post is co-written with Ranjit Rajan, Abdullahi Olaoye, and Abhishek Sawarkar from NVIDIA. AI’s next frontier isn’t merely smarter chat-based assistants, it’s autonomous agents that reason, plan, and execute across entire systems. But to accomplish this, enterprise developers need to move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that scale securely. This challenge grows as…
Critical unauthenticated RCE affecting Hewlett Packard Enterprise OneView
Overview On December 17, 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) published an advisory for CVE-2025-37164, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in HPE OneView. The vulnerability, which was reported to HPE by security researcher Nguyen Quoc Khanh, facilitates unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on versions of HPE OneView before 11.0. Defenders are advised to prioritize upgrading to version…
Verify Google AI-generated videos in the Gemini app
We’re expanding our content transparency tools to help you more easily identify AI-generated content. You can now check if a video was edited or created with Google AI directly in the Gemini app. Simply upload a video and ask something like, “Was this generated using Google AI?” Gemini will scan for the imperceptible SynthID watermark…
A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake—and Got Unexpectedly Attached
Director Adam Bhala Lough didn’t set out to make a documentary about a digital simulacrum of Sam Altman. But after about 100 days of texting and emailing the OpenAI CEO for an interview—with no response, he claims, and with financiers hounding him to make good on his original pitch—Lough was at his wit’s end. He’d…
Has flu peaked? What the figures tell us
Jim Reed,Health reporter, Wesley Stephenson,BBC Verifyand Nick Triggle,Health correspondent Getty Images The NHS remains on high alert over flu, health bosses say, but there are clear signs the surge in the virus has come to an end for now at least. Community spread appears to have stabilised, the UK Health Security Agency says. Meanwhile, the…
Inside Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive Course with Google
After setting a Guinness World Record in April with over 280,000 participants in Kaggle’s 5-Day GenAI intensive course with Google, we thought we’d seen the peak of global interest. Yet the excitement was only growing. Our partnership with Kaggle to host the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course surpassed all expectations, welcoming over 1.5 million learners…
Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office
The Working Families Party said Thursday that it is putting out a specific recruitment call for people who are organizing against data centers in their communities to run for office. The announcement comes amid a period of heightened political turmoil around data centers, as some high-profile Democrats wade into the fight. Earlier this week, three…
