OpenAI’s Next Frontier: Smart Speakers, Glasses, and the Hardware Bet on Everyday AI

The idea that artificial intelligence lives only in the cloud or behind a chat window is changing. OpenAI—best known for conversational models that scale across apps and businesses—is reportedly building a family of physical devices, starting with a smart speaker and potentially expanding into smart glasses and even a smart lamp. This move represents a pivotal moment in how AI

When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment

The India AI Impact Summit in Delhi crystallized a striking convergence: a global prediction about rapidly falling AI costs paired with one of India’s largest private investments in the technology. OpenAI’s CEO observed that the expense of obtaining difficult answers from advanced models has plunged by orders of magnitude in just over a year, and he expects further dramatic declines

Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork has arrived on Windows, closing a major platform gap and bringing its AI-powered desktop agent to a much larger share of enterprise users. The Windows release delivers local file access, multi-step automation, plugin integrations, and Model Context Protocol connectors, matching the macOS version and positioning Cowork as a mainstream productivity agent for knowledge work. What Cowork brings

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target

When Plugins Move Markets: Lessons from a Single-Day “SaaSpocalypse”

Anthropic’s rapid rollout of open‑source plugins for Claude Cowork—especially a legal workflow plugin—triggered a market shock that erased roughly $285 billion in software, legal‑tech, and related stocks in a single day. The episode is less about one technical breakthrough and more about a strategic shift: model providers are moving from offering raw capability to delivering vertical workflows. That marginal step