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This Monday morning, Apple is rolling out a major Siri overhaul, setting itself apart from other AI chatbots with a strong emphasis on user privacy. Both gagadget.com and Crypto Briefing confirm the new Siri app will feature auto-deleting chats, allowing users to choose retention periods of 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. This privacy-first approach means conversations auto-delete by default unless users specifically opt to save them.

The revamped Siri, which Free Press Journal and The Hans

This Monday morning, AI security is at the forefront of global tech news, with multiple reports highlighting both its promise and peril.

Both *Cult of Mac* and *CSO Online* confirm that AI-powered cyberattacks are rapidly advancing. *Cult of Mac* reports that a small startup, Calif, used Anthropic's Mythos AI to bypass Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement in just five days, creating a full system exploit. This is echoed by the UK government's AI Security Institute, or AISI, which, according to

This Sunday morning, OpenAI rolls out a major update: ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can now link their bank accounts directly to the AI, transforming it into a personalized financial advisor. Both Reuters and The South India Times confirm this feature, available for Pro subscribers, lets users track spending, manage subscriptions, and analyze investments.

To enable this, users connect their financial accounts via Plaid, which supports over 12,000 institutions including American Express and Chas

This Sunday morning, Google researchers confirm a significant first: hackers have used AI to create a "zero-day exploit." Both AOL.com and the Google Threat Intelligence Group report this marks the first time AI has developed a software vulnerability unknown to developers, preventing a fix. The exploit was discovered proactively, likely averting a mass attack.

Meanwhile, Check Point Software Technologies is drawing investor attention. AD HOC NEWS reports its stock shows solid momentum following

This Sunday, May 17th, DeepSeek, an AI lab founded by hedge-fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng, is finalizing a major funding round led by China's National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, pushing its valuation to $50 billion. Both Tech Times and Startup Fortune report this comes after DeepSeek’s April release of V4 models, designed to drastically cut memory and compute costs for AI with a one-million-token context window. This large context window, as Startup Fortune highlights, me

This Saturday morning, the buzz around "agentic AI" is reaching a fever pitch, with multiple sources like sharewise.com and IndexBox confirming this new phase of artificial intelligence moves beyond simple responses to independently performing tasks.

Both sharewise.com and IndexBox highlight that this shift means AI agents can now carry out tasks based on instructions, make decisions, and execute complex operations with minimal human input. This has significant implications, as Skai has already

This Sunday morning, a federal jury in Oakland is deliberating the fate of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, following a lawsuit by co-founder Elon Musk. Both Tech Times and Caliber.Az confirm Musk alleges the conversion of the nonprofit AI lab into an $852 billion for-profit corporation, claiming his $38 million donation was misused and that commitments to an altruistic, open-source mission were broken. A journal entry from Brockman in 2017 calling the nonprofit commitment "a l

This Friday morning, a critical warning from the International Monetary Fund states that AI-driven cyber risk is now a systemic threat to global financial stability. Both the IMF and Binance's CSO, Jimmy Su, confirm that AI tools are rapidly accelerating the scale and complexity of cyberattacks, making it easier for criminals to infiltrate financial systems.

In a striking example of this new threat, multiple sources, including Crypto Briefing and TechRadar, report that Anthropic's AI model, Cla

This Friday, May 15th, OpenAI is making significant waves with both new product integrations and critical security updates.

Both PCMag and Dataconomy confirm OpenAI is urging Mac users to immediately update their ChatGPT and Codex applications. This follows a supply chain attack involving the open-source Tanstack library. Malicious software versions were discovered, and while quickly removed, two OpenAI employee devices were compromised, leading to unauthorized access to internal source code re

This Friday, agentic AI is front and center as multiple tech giants and industries announce significant pushes.

Both ZDNET and CNET confirm Google will showcase its agentic AI models at the I/O developer conference, alongside Android 17 and new smart glasses, with a possible reveal of Aluminium OS merging Android and ChromeOS. Meanwhile, OpenAI is reorganizing, merging ChatGPT and Codex into a single AI agent platform, with President Greg Brockman leading all product development, signaling a cl