Cisco's State of AI Security 2026 report warns of a surging AI threat landscape where research-lab vulnerabilities are now fueling real-world attacks, exposing a critical readiness gap as 83% of enterprises plan agentic AI deployments but only 29% feel equipped to secure them.
Context engineering is overtaking prompt engineering as the top priority for developers building reliable AI, with research revealing that what enters a model's context window, not how it's prompted, determines output quality, and four key strategies can cut token usage by 40% while reducing hallucinations.
Software teams are abandoning ad-hoc AI prompting in favor of structured, versioned specifications embedded directly into repositories, enabling both humans and AI agents to work from a consistent source of truth and shifting the core engineering skill toward formalizing intent rather than optimizing prompts.
Accenture mandates AI proficiency for promotions and warns employees who fail to reskill face layoffs, as CEO Julie Sweet confirms 550,000 of 780,000 workers have already been trained on generative AI fundamentals.
Accenture now requires employees to use AI tools to earn promotions, as a new Google-Ipsos survey exposes a massive workforce skills gap — 70% of managers want AI-ready workers, but only 14% of employees receive AI training — prompting Google to launch a new AI Professional Certificate aimed at closing …
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, claiming top AI benchmark performance over rivals Claude and GPT while offering dramatically lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens, making it available now to both consumers and developers across multiple platforms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urgently calls for global AI regulation and an international oversight body at New Delhi's AI Impact Summit, warning that open-source biomodels pose serious bioweapon risks, while announcing a major partnership with TCS to expand AI infrastructure in India, where ChatGPT now serves 100 million weekly users.
DuckDuckGo launches free AI image editing on Duck.ai, letting users upload and edit images via text prompts powered by OpenAI, with privacy protections that strip metadata and IP addresses before processing — no account required.
Cursor launches cross-platform agent sandboxing across macOS, Linux, and Windows, using platform-specific security technologies to cut user interruptions by 40% while allowing AI agents to recover from failures and request elevated permissions when needed.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei make their fierce rivalry impossible to ignore, refusing to make eye contact or hold hands during a group photo with Indian Prime Minister Modi as their companies battle for AI dominance amid a $380 billion valuation surge and a very public Super Bowl …