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AI in Security & Cybersecurity
AI-Powered Supply Chain Attacks: Threats & Defenses
Over the past year, defenders have seen an alarming pattern: attackers are using AI to write, obfuscate, and optimize malicious code, and they’re targeting the software supply chain to push that code into many victims at once. Put simply, AI-powered supply chain attacks let adversaries weaponize automation and scale. This is not speculation — it’s visible in recent vendor write-ups,…
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AI in Law, Politics & Governance
Italy AI Law 2025 Implications: What Governments and Firms Must Know
In late 2025 Italy moved ahead of many peers by passing a comprehensive national AI law that adds new obligations—criminal penalties in some cases—around misuse of AI, transparency, and political content. Observers immediately flagged this as a pivotal moment: the Italy AI law 2025 implications extend beyond national borders because Italy joined the EU’s marketplace while carving out distinct, sometimes…
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AI in Finance & Economics
AI-Powered Inflation Nowcasting: What Project Spectrum Means for Policy in 2025
This year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) quietly moved a research agenda into the public square. Its Project Spectrum explores how generative AI can automatically categorize huge volumes of retail price data and feed that into faster — and potentially more accurate — inflation nowcasts. In other words, central banks are experimenting with AI-powered inflation nowcasting to spot price…
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AI and Ethics
Generative AI Copyright Ethics 2025
In 2025 the generative-AI debate moved from op-eds and research labs into court dockets and national law books. Over the past few months, major entertainment and music companies have filed high-profile suits alleging that AI startups ripped copyrighted recordings and film assets to train their models. At the same time, national policy experiments — such as Italy’s new AI law…
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AI in Sports & Technology
Robot Umpires in MLB: How AI Officiating Will Change the Game
Major League Baseball’s competition committee approved an Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system for regular use in 2026, meaning robot umpires in MLB move from experiments into the everyday game. That vote follows spring-training and All-Star Game tests, and it signals a real tipping point: AI systems that track pitch location will be part of how calls are reviewed and displayed…
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AI in Education
AI Tutoring Assistants in Classrooms: Evidence & Practical Steps
Schools are no longer asking whether to experiment with generative AI; they are asking how to adopt it safely. A recent push from the U.S. Department of Education clarifying how federal grant funds may support responsible AI use, paired with vendor product updates (Copilot features for schools, Khan Academy’s Khanmigo rollouts), means AI tutoring assistants in classrooms have moved from…
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AI and Society
Deepfake Legislation and Democracy
In 2025 something changed: national lawmakers and courts moved from debating deepfakes as a “future threat” to treating them as present dangers to public discourse. Italy’s new national AI law introduced criminal penalties for harmful deepfakes, while a high-profile AI-generated political clip in the U.S. reignited worries about manicured misinformation spreading in real time. Together, these developments make deepfake legislation…
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AI in Healthcare & Medicine
AI-Powered Sepsis Detection Tools: Saving Lives in Emergency Care
In 2025 regulators and hospitals are moving from cautious pilots to real-world use of automated sepsis screening. For example, the FDA has completed AI-assisted scientific review pilots and expanded guidance for AI/ML-enabled medical devices—an institutional signal that AI-powered sepsis detection tools are entering a phase of practical uptake. At the same time, peer-reviewed studies and several product clearances demonstrate measurable…
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AI Agents & Autonomous Systems
Autonomous Agent Marketplaces: Building the Agent Economy
A sudden cluster of platform announcements and protocol launches in 2025 has pushed a once-theoretical idea—software agents buying, selling, and negotiating on behalf of people and businesses—into practical view. In short, autonomous agent marketplaces are emerging as places where organizations can acquire, compose, and monetise agent capabilities, and where agents may eventually transact with one another. This matters because commerce,…
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AI and the Future of Work
Enterprise AI Copilots Adoption 2025: What Workers and Managers Need to Know
Last week, Microsoft confirmed that its Microsoft 365 Copilot will let enterprise users choose and mix models from multiple vendors — including Anthropic’s Claude — inside Copilot Studio and Researcher tools. In other words, large organizations can now deploy multiple AI copilots and agentic workflows inside everyday productivity apps. This move accelerates enterprise AI copilots adoption 2025 and changes how…
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