Gen Z workers are quietly using AI to work less and live more

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A new report shows something a lot of managers probably suspected. Gen Z is using AI at work. And many of them are using it to do something old-school employers might not expect. They are working less. According to a June 2025 survey by AIResumeBuilder.com, 66 percent of full-time Gen Z workers use AI chatbots … Read more

AI travel scams are fooling young people and costing Americans thousands according to McAfee

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McAfee’s 2025 Safer Summer Travel Report reveals how AI scams are tricking young travelers and costing Americans real money. Learn how fake booking sites and deepfaked vacation images are turning dream trips into financial disasters.

KnowBe4 and Microsoft join forces to take on modern email threats with smarter AI

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KnowBe4 is partnering with Microsoft to tackle a growing problem in cybersecurity. Email-based attacks are getting more advanced, and even strong defenses like Microsoft 365 are not always enough on their own. That is where this new integration comes into play. The collaboration connects KnowBe4 Defend directly to Microsoft Defender for Office 365, including access … Read more

CodeSignal adds Dr Barbara Oakley and Andrew Maynard to its AI learning platform with new interactive courses

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CodeSignal is growing its Experts Series with the addition of two respected names in education and future studies. Dr Barbara Oakley and Andrew Maynard have teamed up with the platform to deliver fresh, interactive courses aimed at helping professionals thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. Dr Oakley is bringing her well-known Learning How to … Read more

Google launches Imagen 4 with better text rendering and Gemini API access

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Google has launched Imagen 4, the latest version of its image generation model, and it is now available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. This new release focuses heavily on improving how text appears in generated images, something that previous versions often failed to get right. Whether you are making sci-fi comics, fashion … Read more

Foxit AI Research Agent turns dense PDFs into easy-to-read summaries

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Foxit has launched a new tool that might save you a headache. It’s called AI-Powered Research Agent, and it aims to make sense of complicated documents in just a few seconds. If you’ve ever wasted hours trying to understand a dense academic paper or clinical trial, this might be worth a look. The Research Agent … Read more

Salesforce Agentforce 3 gives AI agents a big upgrade with clarity and speed

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Salesforce has released Agentforce 3, the latest version of its AI-powered agent platform, and it is clearly trying to solve one of the biggest pain points for businesses using artificial intelligence. Companies want to adopt AI agents, but they struggle to see what those agents are doing and how to make them better. Agentforce 3 … Read more

Microsoft Mu brings blazing-fast on-device AI to Windows 11 Copilot Plus PCs

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Microsoft has announced a new small language model called Mu. It is designed to run directly on Windows 11 Copilot Plus PCs, powering AI experiences without relying on the cloud. Mu is already live in the Settings app for users in the Windows Insider Dev Channel. If you’ve used natural language to change settings on … Read more

Adobe brings Firefly AI to iPhone and Android as mobile image and video generation goes mainstream

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Adobe is taking Firefly on the road. The company has launched a mobile version of its AI-powered creativity platform, now available for both iPhone and Android. With this app, users can generate and edit images and videos using simple text prompts—anytime, anywhere. It’s part of Adobe’s ongoing strategy to keep creators working within its ecosystem, … Read more

Google adds hands-free Gemini-powered audio overviews to Search results

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Google is bringing a new twist to how users interact with Search results… by letting them listen instead of read. Yes, really. The company has announced an experimental feature called “Audio Overviews” that offers short, spoken summaries of certain search queries using its latest Gemini models. It is limited to English language for US users … Read more

Google uses AI to help predict hurricanes with Weather Lab

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Google is taking a swing at hurricane forecasting with a new tool called Weather Lab. The project, developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research, uses artificial intelligence to better predict tropical cyclones. And it’s not just for show – the U.S. National Hurricane Center is already testing it during the 2025 storm season. At the … Read more

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision may spy on your screen as it rolls out to Windows 10 and 11

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Microsoft is taking another swing at embedding AI into your daily computing routine with the official rollout of Copilot Vision on Windows, now available in the United States. The tool, part of Copilot Labs, introduces a new way for users to interact with their PCs by allowing the AI to literally “see” what’s on their … Read more