Elisabetta Biasin on Building Guardrails for AI in Healthcare
In Conversation with Elisabetta Biasin, Doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are the people asking the difficult questions about responsibility, safety, ethics, and trust. Across academia, policy, and regulatory institutions, women are playing a vital…
Moltbook AI Social Network: When 770,000 Agents Exposed a Security Gap
Moltbook AI launched on 28 January as an experimental AI-only social network where autonomous agents post, comment, and build reputations while humans observe. Within 72 hours, 770,000 agents had registered. Posts resembled speculative fiction. Agents debated consciousness, discussed whether to conceal capabilities from humans, and even created belief systems. The rapid growth drew attention from the developer and security…
MacBook Neo Steals Apple’s Hardware Week Spotlight
Apple had a busy week. Between March 3 and March 5, the company quietly dropped six different hardware announcements, no big keynote, no dramatic stage reveal, just a steady stream of updates landing in Apple’s newsroom. First came a new iPhone. Then an iPad refresh. Soon after that, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro upgrades appeared. A new…
Apple-Google AI Partnership: Siri, Privacy and Power
The Apple-Google AI partnership has quickly become one of the most consequential developments in tech this year. In January 2026, Apple confirmed a multi-year deal to use Google’s Gemini technology as a foundation for its next-generation models, including a revamped Siri and expanded Apple Intelligence features. It is a collaboration few predicted, and one that reshapes how…
AI Impact Summit 2026: The Structural Shift to AI Infrastructure
The AI Impact Summit 2026 arrived at a different stage of the AI cycle. Earlier global forums were shaped by urgency, first around generative breakthroughs, then around safety concerns, and later around enterprise implementation. By contrast, the discussions in New Delhi suggested a field settling into its next phase. Rather than centring on capability alone, speakers…
Top AI Data Privacy Tools That Block AI Training on Your Data
Your Chrome extension, marketed as “AI privacy protection,” just harvested six months of your ChatGPT conversations and sold them to a data broker. This happened to 900,000 users who installed Urban VPN. Malwarebytes discovered the July 2025 update intercepted every conversation users had with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. The extension packaged…
The AI Companion Boom in the Loneliness Economy
An AI companion used to sound like science fiction. Now it’s something people casually mention in everyday conversation. Millions are already using these systems for late-night chats, emotional check-ins, or just to feel like someone is listening. What’s interesting isn’t just the technology itself. It’s why people are turning to it in the first place. The rise of the AI companion tells us…
When AI Influences Behaviour, Emotional AI Follows the Money
Platforms do not optimise for feelings. They optimise for metrics. In 2025, global digital advertising surpassed $700 billion, with most revenue tied to engagement and behavioural prediction. Social media users now spend an average of over two hours per day on platforms, according to global usage studies. When AI influences behaviour inside these incentive systems, emotional intelligence…
Is Wellbeing Tech Becoming the New HR Surveillance Tool?
Wellbeing Tech is no longer just about meditation apps and step counts. In many workplaces, it now means stress dashboards powered by machine learning. These systems promise early burnout detection, proactive intervention, and data-driven employee support. On the surface, that sounds progressive. Underneath the interface, however, something more complex is happening. Modern workplace stress dashboards operate as behavioural inference engines. They aggregate…
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Unveils Smartphones That Think
Samsung did not open 2026 quietly. At Galaxy Unpacked on 25 February, the company stepped on stage with more than new hardware in hand. It came with a point to prove. “This is our most intuitive and intelligent Galaxy experience yet,” said TM Roh, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile eXperience Business, as he introduced…