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Frontier AI has transformed web attacks, with some cases evading web application firewalls up to 89% of the time. Akamai's Kazuhiro Nakanishi explains the trends behind these tireless AI-driven attacks, the countermeasures, and the pitfalls defenders often overlook.

Salesforce completed 4.31 million customer interactions through its own 'customer zero' practice, lifting deal counts by 40-50%. COO Ryota Tanaka outlines the playbook—choosing domains with solid data and KPIs, and starting with simple, high-frequency tasks—to convert AI investment into clear returns.

A Raxus survey on generative-AI adoption by job type found that engineers and IT staff were not the leading users. Contrary to the assumption that IT-adjacent roles rank first, another occupation surpassed them, the report notes.

CyberAgent ran an AI contest with a 10-million-yen prize that deliberately ignores feasibility, aiming to change how employees engage with generative AI. Since tools yield no value if unused, lowering the barrier to entry is meant to spur company-wide adoption.

BizReach's CTO, whose firm consumes roughly 10 billion tokens a month, explains how he judges AI's cost-effectiveness amid rising concern over ballooning AI spend. The piece examines balancing expanded usage against cost control from a management standpoint.

Google extended its Gemini Spark personal AI agent to more than 160 countries, including Japan. Running on Google's cloud, it can act even when a PC is off or a phone is locked, handling tasks based on triggers. Chrome integration will roll out first in the US.

OpenAI said it surpassed one billion active users and two million business customers. It cited efficiency gains from retained reasoning, better context management, and production optimization that cut costs and improved token throughput, alongside price cuts on some GPT-5.6 models.

An IEEE Spectrum personal column in which the writer recalls being advised, 25 years ago, to find a 'rabbi'—a mentor—when starting out. The piece reflects on that mentorship and the lessons it offered over a long journalism career.

Simon Willison wrote that the rollout of stateless MCP—the MCP 2.0 or 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification—has renewed his interest in the protocol. He says it inspired him to build tools such as mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp on top of the new stateless design.

A sponsored article maps four phases in adopting 800VDC for data center cooling infrastructure. It suggests the real question is less whether cooling can run on 800VDC and more whether the supplier ecosystem can support the transition at scale.

Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending reached $143 billion in the quarter, marking an 11th consecutive quarter of growth, according to a report. Analysts attribute the sustained rise largely to AI, as generative models and data demand keep boosting cloud investment.

Insurer Univé built an AI-ready workforce using ChatGPT Enterprise by combining executive leadership, responsible governance, and hands-on enablement. The case study highlights how the firm scaled practical AI adoption across teams.

Google detailed its use of AI for Chrome security, saying a Gemini-based agent uncovered a vulnerability hidden for over 13 years and that its last two updates fixed more bugs than the previous 23 combined. To counter faster AI-driven attacks, Google is trialing twice-weekly security updates.

OpenAI cut the price of 'Luna' in its GPT-5.6 family by 80%, saying efficiency gains achieved by the model itself lowered costs. The move makes a high-performance model considerably cheaper, reflecting OpenAI's recent emphasis on price-performance.

To address engineer shortages and rising system complexity, Hitachi developed an 'Agentic AI Integration Platform' that applies AI across every phase of systems integration. Combining frontier AI with its own know-how, internal tests showed up to 240x efficiency gains in finalizing screen specifications.