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AI Scepticism Collapses Among Irish SMEs, But Privacy Fears Spike to 58%
The proportion of Irish business leaders who dismiss artificial intelligence as overhyped has collapsed from 45% to 23% in just six months, according to new data from Grant Thornton’s International...
64% of Workers Don't Recognize AI in Their Tools—That Blind Spot Is Fueling an Enterprise Governance Crisis
Nearly two-thirds of American employees use AI-powered features daily without realizing it, according to workforce and consumer surveys, creating a massive blind spot that corporate policies and...
UK-OpenAI MoU Exposes Tensions in Enterprise AI: UX vs. Governance, Vendor Lock-in vs. Sovereignty
When OpenAI opened ChatGPT to the public at no charge, it did more than ignite a consumer frenzy—it set a ticking clock for every enterprise software vendor. Within two months of its November 2022...
Microsoft Copilot’s EchoLeak Flaw Proves GenAI Must Embrace Zero Trust — Or Risk Catastrophic Data Leaks
A zero-click prompt injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot, discovered in January by security researchers at Aim Labs, allowed attackers to trick the AI assistant into silently exfiltrating...
Ireckonu CEO: Hotels Pasting Guest Data into Public AI Chatbots Risk GDPR Fines and Broken Trust
Hotel staff are casually copying guest names, preferences, and booking histories into public generative AI tools like ChatGPT, and the practice is creating a ticking privacy time bomb. That’s the...
LightBeam Unveils Copilot Governance Tools to Combat AI-Driven Data Exposure and Ransomware
LightBeam has released its Summer 2025 update, introducing real-time governance controls for Microsoft Copilot alongside ransomware containment—responding to the breakneck enterprise adoption of...
45% of Employees Use Banned AI Tools: A Coordinated HR-IT Playbook to Reclaim Control
Forty-five percent. That’s the share of workers who, by their own admission, have used unapproved artificial intelligence tools on the job, according to multiple industry surveys. It’s a...
Tenable AI Exposure Debuts at Black Hat to Tackle Generative AI’s Hidden Attack Surface
Tenable today took the wraps off Tenable AI Exposure, a new module within its Tenable One exposure management platform designed to help enterprises discover, prioritize, and govern risks introduced...
Check Point, Menlo, SentinelOne Redefine BYOD and AI Security at Black Hat 2025
At this week’s Black Hat 2025 conference in Las Vegas, three security vendors made announcements that could reshape how enterprises secure unmanaged devices, enable zero-trust collaboration, and...
Colonial First State Pioneers AI-Driven Wealth Management with Microsoft and Avanade
Colonial First State (CFS), one of Australia’s foremost wealth management institutions, has taken a bold leap into the realm of artificial intelligence through a pilot project developed in...
Edge AI and Hardware Security Transforming Modern Windows PCs
The rapid evolution of personal computing is fundamentally transforming both how we work and how we protect our digital environments. As traditional endpoints morph into intelligent, AI-infused...
The GenAI Revolution in South African Business: Opportunities, Risks, and Strategic Imperatives
South African businesses are on the threshold of a profound transformation, driven by the surge in generative AI (GenAI) adoption across the corporate sector. Once considered the stuff of science...