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Survey Reveals Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools

According to a new report, 99.7% of IT and security leaders surveyed by identity security company Delinea said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.

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OpenAI Introduces Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations

OpenAI has announced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users' feedback as they go.

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Survey: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge

Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to a recent Digital Realty survey.

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Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem

Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.

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OpenAI Discontinuing Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture

OpenAI has announced it is preparing to retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.

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AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10

While artificial intelligence has long factored into the trends and issues within Educause's annual Top 10, the technology has officially risen to the No. 1 spot for 2027.

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AI Leaders Warn of Security Risks at United Nations Briefing

The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face joined AI researcher Yoshua Bengio at the United Nations headquarters in New York to warn the UN Security Council about the security risks of increasingly capable AI.

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Redesigned Copilot Will Build Apps and Work on Its Own

Microsoft recently announced that it's redesigning Copilot, the company's all-encompassing AI assistant, so users can hand off complex tasks, build tools by describing what they need and assign work to an agent that keeps going after they log off.

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AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down

Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.

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Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents

A new vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring and containing enterprise AI agents.