If you were hoping 2025 would be the year generative AI stole the show again, Gartner has some news: the spotlight is shifting. In its newly released Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2025, the research firm says AI agents and AI-ready data are now the fastest-moving stars on the curve, elbowing past headline-grabbing chatbots to sit at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.”
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), once hailed as a security panacea, is proving increasingly vulnerable. In 2024, a staggering 87% of successful cyberattacks exploited session hijacking post-MFA login, exposing a critical flaw: MFA trusts session tokens blindly. State-sponsored threat groups like Russia’s Void Blizzard use sophisticated proxy tools such as Evilginx2 to steal tokens in real time—leaving security teams in the dark.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on the company’s vision for AI—not as a workplace assistant, but as a personal companion. In a move that redefines Meta’s AI trajectory, Zuckerberg unveiled a concept he calls “personal superintelligence,” signaling a strategic retreat from head-to-head competition with productivity-first AI models like ChatGPT.
As Google charges ahead with AI-powered search, a battle is brewing over who controls the flow of online traffic—and who gets left behind.
Kyndryl has expanded its strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to advance enterprise adoption of private cloud AI solutions. Announced today, the collaboration combines Kyndryl’s AI consulting and deployment capabilities with HPE’s newly launched Private Cloud AI platform—developed in partnership with NVIDIA—to fast-track AI transformation for enterprise clients.
