Google showcased its latest models with real-world demos. Gemini Omni handles multimodal reasoning across text, audio, and video simultaneously. Gemini 3.5 focuses on faster inference with improved code generation.
Meta rolled out WhatsApp Plus subscription at PKR 229/month in Pakistan. The cosmetic features seem trivial, but the real play is training 60M+ Pakistani WhatsApp users to make in-app payments - laying groundwork for Meta's fintech ambitions in the country.
The HEC's new paperless degree attestation platform is failing massively. Applicants report system crashes, lost payments, and weeks-long delays for what was promised as instant verification. The digital transformation that went sideways.
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT's content-sharing feature to display fake OpenAI outage pages that trick users into downloading malware disguised as the ChatGPT desktop app. The attack leverages the trust users place in chatgpt.com URLs.
Palo Alto Networks warns that CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS 7.8) is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication and establish VPN connections. Patch immediately if running GlobalProtect.
At 620M monthly users, calling a frontier model per image isn't sustainable. Pinterest CTO gutted Qwen3-VL's vision layer, rebuilt it with proprietary embeddings - 90% cost reduction, 30% accuracy boost. The playbook for scaling AI at enterprise level.
Researchers built a modular memory architecture that encodes new knowledge into a separate smaller model, works with both open and closed-source LLMs. Teams can upgrade their base model without losing accumulated knowledge.