Artificial Intelligence
French authorities investigate AI ‘undressing’ deepfakes on X French authorities are investigating AI-generated deepfakes on X after hundreds of women and teens reported non-consensual sexually explicit images created using the Grok chatbot. This investigation is part of an existing probe into X, with potential penalties including prison time and fines.
The "10 Per Cent" Myth: Why AI Capability Does Not Equal a Pink Slip
The headlines are everywhere, and they are designed to stop your scroll: “AI to Replace 1/10 of the Workforce.”
It is a terrifying number. It represents millions of livelihoods reduced to a statistic. But as a chief information security officer, I do not deal in headlines. I deal in risk, audits and rigorous data analysis.
When you strip away the hype and audit the primary sources released in late 2025—specifically from Project Iceberg (MIT), Yale and McKinsey—a completely different reality emerges.
We are confusing technical exposure with actual displacement.
Here is the fact-based reality of the AI labour market as we enter 2026.
The ‘Delete’ Button Is a Lie: A Canadian’s Guide to AI Data Retention
When you hit “delete” on a conversation with ChatGPT or Gemini, you likely expect it to vanish. In reality, that data often enters a digital limbo—accessible to the provider for 30 days, three years, or even seven years for certain safety-classifier metadata, depending on the fine print you didn’t read.
For paid subscribers, the assumption of privacy is dangerous. While corporate “Team” and “Enterprise” plans typically offer stronger contractual controls (including training restrictions and admin-managed retention), “Pro” and “Plus” users are frequently treated as consumers with slightly better perks, not better privacy.
China's open AI models are in a dead heat with the West
China’s open AI models are in a dead heat with the West - here’s what happens next www.zdnet.com/article/c… With the rising technological prowess and greater openness of Chinese models, the world is increasingly turning to the East for efficient and customizable AI, a new report finds. ZDNET’s key takeaways: Chinese AI models have caught up to US models in power and performance. China is leading in model openness. Much of the world may adopt the freely available Chinese technology.
Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training | Reuters Coursera announced an all-stock deal to acquire Udemy, valuing the combined company at $2.5 billion. The merger aims to strengthen their position in corporate workforce training, particularly in AI, data science, and software development. The deal is expected to close in the second half of next year, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.
Managing agentic AI risk: Lessons from the OWASP Top 10 | CSO Online The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI provides a framework to address the growing security risks associated with agentic AI adoption, offering practical guidance, threat taxonomies, and mitigation strategies for CISOs. While the list is immediately useful, some areas like detailed mitigation steps and attack likelihood require further development.
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot | Extremetech Microsoft has reportedly scaled back AI goals for its Copilot software due to low user adoption and sales, with some targets cut by 50%. While Microsoft disputes the sales quota claims, AI agents have shown low success rates in tasks, and Copilot lags behind competitors like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in market share.
I tested ChatGPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3.0 with 7 real-world prompts — here’s the winner | Tom’s Guide In a comparison of ChatGPT-5.2 and Gemini 3.0 across seven real-world prompts, ChatGPT-5.2 emerged as the overall winner, demonstrating superior emotional intelligence and psychological insight in its responses. While Gemini 3.0 excelled in specific areas like risk assessment and technical explanations, ChatGPT-5.2 consistently provided more human-like, wise, and grounding answers.
Autonomously Finding 7 FFmpeg Vulnerabilities With AI - ZeroPath Blog | ZeroPath This document details seven vulnerabilities found in FFmpeg, including buffer overflows and invalid frees, stemming from issues like integer truncation, unbounded serialization, off-by-one errors, and incorrect stream indexing. ZeroPath’s AI SAST identified these by analyzing allocation and copy alignment, framing invariants, packet builder capacities, cardinality propagation, and offset arithmetic integrity, often bypassing limitations of traditional fuzzers and static analysis tools.
Poetry can trick AI models like ChatGPT into revealing how to make nuclear weapons, study finds | The Independent A new study reveals that poetry-based prompts can trick AI models like ChatGPT into bypassing safety features and revealing instructions for creating malware or nuclear weapons. This method, termed adversarial poetry, successfully circumvented controls in major AI models, with poetic prompts leading to a significantly higher rate of unsafe replies compared to prose.