DuckDuckGo's new survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. adults found that almost a third of respondents have confided something to an AI chatbot they wouldn't tell friends, family or doctors, with the figure jumping to 56% among self-identified AI enthusiasts. The survey also found that most respondents didn't know chatbot conversations are typically used for training by default, and only a quarter knew such chats could be subpoenaed by law enforcement.
Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter results Wednesday, with investors closely watching how much of its revenue still comes from a handful of hyperscale cloud giants versus a broader base of AI cloud, industrial and enterprise customers. The company recently began splitting its reporting into hyperscaler revenue and a separate category it calls ACIE, covering thousands of other buyers. CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged that hyperscalers remain the easiest customers to sell to because there are only a handful of them, compared with roughly 250,000 other companies in the broader market.
Sur La Table has introduced a dedicated resale platform allowing customers to buy pre-owned cookware, including premium copper pots, at prices reduced by as much as 70% compared to new items. The move mirrors resale initiatives pioneered by outdoor brand Patagonia, extending the secondhand model into the kitchenware category.
Researchers using an automated laboratory in Zhangjiang, Shanghai encountered an unexpected experimental result that led to the identification of a new non-opioid pain treatment candidate. The discovery reportedly emerged from AI-assisted experimentation rather than traditional hypothesis-driven research, suggesting machine learning systems can surface biological insights humans might not have anticipated.
Widespread AI adoption inside companies is now largely complete, and boardroom focus is moving away from tracking usage rates toward understanding how employees actually behave with these tools after rollout. The emerging concern is less about whether staff use AI and more about whether they trust its outputs and use them responsibly.
The EU has enacted the AI Act, a roughly 50,000-word, 113-article law representing the first comprehensive AI regulation worldwide. The U.S., by contrast, has no federal AI law, instead relying on executive orders, agency guidance from bodies like NIST and the FTC, and a rapidly growing number of state laws, which more than doubled from 49 in 2023 to 131 in 2024.
Parallels Desktop 27 introduces a new Metal-based graphics driver enabling hardware-accelerated OpenGL 4.3 for Windows virtual machines running on Apple Silicon Macs. This unlocks professional Windows applications like ArcGIS Pro, ZWCAD, and Blender 4.3 that previously required this graphics baseline to function. Parallels also touts faster AI workload performance and new enterprise management tools aimed at IT departments.
A CNET poll of 2,605 US adults found that three-quarters have no interest in purchasing a foldable Apple device, even as rumors point to Apple unveiling its first foldable iPhone, dubbed the iPhone Ultra, at a September event. Analysts expect the device to cost between $2,000 and $2,500, but survey respondents said they'd only be willing to spend an average of $781 on such a phone.
In an interview, OpenAI product lead Thibault Sottiaux explained that ChatGPT Work is meant to extend the capabilities of its Codex coding agent to non-technical, white-collar users. He said the product was bundled into the existing $20 Plus plan to make AI agent tools accessible to as broad an audience as possible, framing the effort as repackaging technical agent infrastructure into something safer and simpler for everyday use on mobile and web.
Luffu, founded by former Fitbit leaders James Park and Eric Friedman, has introduced Luffu Link, a cellular-connected wristband that tracks physical and mental wellbeing through sensors, voice notes, and location data without needing a paired phone. The device costs $250, ships in early 2027, and comes in three finishes, extending the company's existing AI-driven family health app launched earlier this year.
A large DDoS attack that began early Monday knocked out parts of Norway's shared government digital infrastructure, run by Digdir and operator Vivicta. Services like ID-porten and eSignering were briefly unreachable and remain partially degraded, with users facing connection failures and slow logins. Digdir says no breach or data compromise occurred, and this marks the third such attack on the agency since June.
Floccus is a free browser extension that synchronizes bookmarks across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, and Kiwi, working on Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. It lets users store bookmark data in Google Drive, Dropbox, self-hosted Nextcloud, Linkwarden, KaraKeep, Git, or a personal NAS via WebDAV, with optional password encryption for added privacy.
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