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AI projects that remain stuck in pilot stages may miss the shift to agentic systems able to manage tasks with limited human oversight.
Bots now generate more than half of web requests worldwide, with AI-driven browsing pushing automated traffic up 7,851% in 2025.
Malicious packages are now spreading faster across code repositories, with Google saying open source ecosystems face the sharpest rise in risk.
Security-driven demand is set to lift private 5G and 4G LTE defence investment at a 24% annual rate through 2029, the research says.
Ransomware-prone operators could cut integration costs as ATLAS pitches a single storage-and-security system to foreign buyers in Yekaterinburg.
Generative AI is helping Tehran speed up phishing, malware and influence campaigns, while making attacks harder to attribute.
A lighter open-source release could help developers build voice tools that detect emotion, summarise long recordings and support multiple languages.
Boards must now treat cyber security and AI governance as core resilience issues, with Russian-linked threats exposing wider operational risks.
Businesses may need to rethink bot blocks, as Decodo says automated systems now make up 57.4% of web requests and shape product discovery.
Developers can now access a smaller Russian-made model aimed at coding and long-document analysis, as Sber opens GigaChat 3.5 Ultra free.
Google Threat Intelligence Group says Moscow's influence machine is again targeting the US, Europe and allies beyond Ukraine, with AI aiding campaigns.
World Cup betting traffic has become a target for denial-of-service campaigns, with one European operator hit by 19 million malicious requests.
Connected cars face a widening attack surface as PCA flags 265 new flaws in the first quarter, with most exploitable without specialist tools.
Peacefulness has fallen for a 12th straight year, as conflict deaths, drone attacks and military spending all hit record highs.
The report says Chinese threat groups are now tracking oil, reconstruction and strategic technologies across Venezuela, Syria, South Korea and the Gulf.
Developers using open-source tools face heightened supply-chain risk after the botnet lost all four of its command channels.
Investor concern is mounting as WARC says Meta's ad business will fund most of its USD $125 billion to USD $145 billion AI spending.
AI is now being used to write exploits and malware, with Google saying it has traced the first zero-day linked to machine assistance.
Security teams face a broader threat as criminals and state-backed actors use generative AI to speed hacks, phishing and malware.
British households pay less than many Western peers for fixed-line broadband, with the UK placed 70th in a 214-country price league.
