In a revelation that’s likely to ignite the next major security debate in the AI browser race, cybersecurity firm SquareX has exposed a powerful, undocumented API inside the Comet browser (Perplexity’s AI browser) that allows embedded extensions to run arbitrary local commands—effectively granting full device control.
The industrial sector is facing a perfect storm: a shrinking skilled labor pool, increasingly complex equipment, and rising pressure to improve uptime with fewer resources. While the demands on maintenance teams have grown, the digital tools supporting them haven’t kept pace. Much of a technician’s day is still consumed by administrative tasks—logging updates, creating work orders, generating reports, and navigating rigid systems.
Saudi Arabia’s ambition to become a global AI heavyweight just notched a major milestone. AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN—the Public Investment Fund–backed full-stack AI company—announced plans to form a joint venture focused on building world-class AI data center infrastructure at massive scale. And not the theoretical kind. The partners are aiming for up to 1 gigawatt of AI compute capacity by 2030, making the Kingdom one of the largest AI infrastructure hubs outside the US and China.
Cresta, one of the fastest-rising players in customer experience AI, is pushing deeper into multilingual service with the launch of Real-Time Translation and a suite of global-ready AI capabilities. The updates mark Cresta’s biggest leap yet toward building a platform where human agents and AI agents can serve any customer, in any language, across any channel—without staffing dozens of specialized language teams or juggling external translation tools.
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) is doubling down on the AI era with its $3.35 billion acquisition of Chronosphere, a next-generation observability platform designed to handle massive cloud workloads with cost-efficiency and resilience. The move signals a strategic pivot to autonomous, AI-driven observability, combining security, monitoring, and remediation into a single platform.
Enterprise security rarely shifts overnight. Zero Trust took years to formally take shape, SASE took even longer to mature, and VPN fatigue built up over a decade before leaders finally embraced perimeter-less models. But the next shift is arriving at breakneck speed—and according to cybersecurity startup Netzilo, most organizations aren’t ready for it.
If 2023–2025 were the years drones became ubiquitous tools across industrial inspections, 2026 is shaping up to be the moment they start thinking ahead. At least, that’s the view from Sky-Futures, the long-running drone-inspection and risk intelligence firm whose new industry forecast frames next year as a decisive shift from data capture to data foresight.
Fibocom is taking a swing at democratizing local AI computing with its new AI Dongle, a compact plug-and-play accelerator designed to give everyday devices—from PCs to NAS boxes—a serious boost in on-device LLM inference. Think real-time Q&A assistants, text-to-image lookups, and meeting summarization without shipping your data off to the cloud.
LEHI, Utah, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — RainFocus™, provider of the next-generation event marketing platform, today announced it ranked No. 439 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America. RainFocus grew 154% spanning fiscal years 2021 to 2024, reinforcing its growth within the industry.
