Microsoft AI Chief Executive Mustafa Suleyman announced that the company's new diagnostic framework outperformed generalist human physicians in diagnosing complex medical conditions during simulated clinical trials. Published in the journal Science, the research marks a major milestone in Microsoft’s strategy to achieve "medical superintelligence" - AI systems capable of surpassing top human-led medical networks in complex reasoning and clinical coordination. The system, dubb

A Chinese state-aligned threat actor tracked as Storm-0940 used an open-source agentic AI framework and compromised application credentials from IT management provider ConnectWise to carry out a high-speed, automated supply chain attack. According to a threat intelligence disclosure from Microsoft, the hackers turned stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) credentials against more than 2,250 downstream Microsoft 365 customer tenants globally, attempting to achieve

Government agencies, media organizations, and enterprise IT teams around the world took thousands of public websites and digital platforms offline following the emergency disclosure of two critical, decades-old vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language. Dubbed "PHP2Shell," the severe flaws impact the core memory management and error handling of a language that powers roughly 70% of the global web, enabling unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable server

Attorneys general across eight U.S. states - Iowa, Kansas, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and West Virginia - have filed coordinated lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT endangers children, encourages dangerous behaviors, and misleads parents about product safety. The legal filings across state courts represent a major regulatory escalation, charging the AI startup with consumer fraud and public nuisance violations. Editorial credit: Ascannio / Shutter

Cybersecurity and content delivery giant Akamai Technologies has captured a major wave of new enterprise clients for Akamai Cloud, driven by surging demand for cost-effective CPU compute, specialized GPU infrastructure, and edge-native AI inference. The influx of corporate adopters highlights a growing shift among enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and technology developers away from centralized hyper-scaler pricing toward distributed edge cloud architectures.