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Monday, October 12
SailPoint Rolls Out New Capabilities to Address Agentic AI Identity Security Challenge
AI agents are quickly moving from experiments into everyday enterprise environments, but the security controls around them are not keeping pace, according to enterprise identity security company SailPoint.
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Friday, October 9
Flashpoint Patents Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack
Cybersecurity company Flashpoint recently announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.
campustechnology.comReport: Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Impacting Cybersecurity
New research from Thales highlights how AI adoption and emerging quantum computing threats are putting pressure on existing security measures.
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Thursday, October 8
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Offers Model-Switching Cybersecurity Safeguards
Anthropic's latest Claude release, Sonnet 5.5, brings cybersecurity safeguards that can change which model handles a request during a Claude conversation. Higher-risk tasks can fall back to Sonnet 5.
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Wednesday, October 7
Survey Reveals Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools
According to a new report, 99.7% of IT and security leaders surveyed by identity security company Delinea said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.
campustechnology.comOpenAI Introduces Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations
OpenAI has announced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users' feedback as they go.
campustechnology.comSurvey: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge
Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to a recent Digital Realty survey.
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Monday, October 5
Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem
Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.
campustechnology.comOpenAI Discontinuing Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture
OpenAI has announced it is preparing to retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.
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Thursday, October 1
AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10
While artificial intelligence has long factored into the trends and issues within Educause's annual Top 10, the technology has officially risen to the No. 1 spot for 2027.
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Wednesday, September 30
AI Leaders Warn of Security Risks at United Nations Briefing
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face joined AI researcher Yoshua Bengio at the United Nations headquarters in New York to warn the UN Security Council about the security risks of increasingly capable AI.
campustechnology.comRedesigned Copilot Will Build Apps and Work on Its Own
Microsoft recently announced that it's redesigning Copilot, the company's all-encompassing AI assistant, so users can hand off complex tasks, build tools by describing what they need and assign work to an agent that keeps going after they log off.
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Monday, September 28
AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down
Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.
campustechnology.comIndustry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents
A new vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring and containing enterprise AI agents.
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Wednesday, September 23
California Governor Proposes Independent Watchdogs Within AI Safety System
California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new model of artificial intelligence regulation that would give independent organizations a formal role in evaluating the safety claims made by leading AI companies.
campustechnology.comAI's Productivity Gains in Science Tempered by Time Spent Validating Outputs
Artificial intelligence is saving scientists substantial amounts of time, but researchers are giving some of those gains back by checking the technology's work, according to a new study involving Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT.
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Monday, September 21
Report: AI May Be Eroding the Very Skills Employers Need Most
AI is changing which human capabilities matter most at work, yet employees are reporting that some of those same capabilities are being eroded, according to a new IBM study.
campustechnology.comInfrastructure Accounts for More than Half of Worldwide AI Spending
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.
campustechnology.comAI's Role as Research Assistant Calls into Question Ownership of Scientific Discoveries
As AI systems become capable of generating genuinely novel scientific results, determining who discovered something, who deserves credit, and what role the company behind the model played will become considerably harder.
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Wednesday, September 16
Researchers Warn: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers
In an active social engineering campaign, attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.
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Tuesday, September 15
New Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Emphasizes Human Control
Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that details how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.
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Monday, September 14
AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down
For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.
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Thursday, September 10
AI Giants Report Advances in Mathematical Research
OpenAI has published what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems, while Anthropic has reported separate advances in research mathematics and formal proof generation.
campustechnology.comOpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
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Tuesday, September 8
Rubrik, CrowdStrike Expand Integration to Speed Identity Recovery
Cybersecurity companies Rubrik and CrowdStrike have announced an expanded identity-security integration intended to move compromised identity environments from threat detection through clean recovery with less manual intervention.
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Friday, September 4
Gartner: Hypervisor Replatforming Is Reshaping Storage and Virtualization Decisions
Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms reflects a broad infrastructure shift driven by hypervisor changes, cloud-style consumption economics, surging hardware costs, and AI.
campustechnology.comMontclair State U Partners with Dreamscape Learn on New VR Facility
New Jersey's Montclair State University has announced the completion of a new virtual reality learning facility developed in partnership with Dreamscape Learn. The 2,450-square-foot lab space is inside the College of Communication and Media building and will serve students pursuing careers in digital media, virtual…
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Wednesday, September 2
Report: 83% of Organizations Need an Infrastructure Upgrade to Support Production-Grade Agentic AI
According to the latest infrastructure research from Google Cloud, enterprises are encountering a sizable infrastructure gap as agentic AI systems move from experiments and pilots into production.
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Tuesday, September 1
Educause President and CEO John O'Brien Announces Retirement
John O'Brien, president and CEO of Educause, has announced his intention to retire in August 2027.
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Monday, August 31
Nutanix Cloud Platform Updates Expand Capabilities for Production Agentic AI
Nutanix has announced Enterprise AI 2.8, adding agent governance and inference features.
campustechnology.comCSA's Top Cloud Threats: Identity, AI
Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity first while adding two AI-related risks to its list of 11 leading cloud security concerns.
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Wednesday, August 26
OpenAI Pumps Brakes on Frontier AI Training After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI is changing how it trains, monitors and contains frontier AI models after its July cybersecurity evaluation breach reached Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
campustechnology.comMeta Releases Muse Glimmer, an Open-Weight AI Model Designed to Run on Consumer Hardware
Meta is returning to open-weight artificial intelligence with Muse Glimmer, a new AI model designed to run on consumer hardware, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that increasingly capable AI should be widely available rather than controlled by a small number of institutions.
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Monday, August 24
Anthropic Adding Invisible Watermarks to Claude-Generated Text
Anthropic recently announced it is introducing machine-readable watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models as it moves to comply with European Union AI transparency rules.
campustechnology.comOrganizations Advised to Expand Threat Modeling in Preparation for Quantum-Era Attacks
Microsoft is encouraging organizations to expand threat-modeling exercises to uncover cryptographic dependencies that could leave applications and data vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks.
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Wednesday, August 19
AI Adoption in the Workplace Accelerates, but Trust Gap Remains
As employees increasingly use AI tools, many organizations face a persisting challenge: building the trust needed to sustain adoption.
campustechnology.comMicrosoft Merges Copilot Apps Into a Single User Experience
Microsoft recently announced it is consolidating its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single destination, addressing a fragmented product strategy that has required users to navigate separate applications for AI chat and productivity tools.
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Tuesday, August 18
Survey: Organizations Moving AI Workloads Away from Public Cloud
A new Cloudera survey of 1,500 enterprise technology leaders found widespread AI-driven architecture changes, with governance problems, rising infrastructure costs, and workload placement pushing organizations toward more hybrid approaches.
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Monday, August 17
Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Open AI Model
Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a new open AI model designed less as an all-purpose answer engine than as a fast workhorse inside long-running AI agent systems.
campustechnology.comAgentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront
New research from Caylent, an AI-focused Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner, found that enterprises are already moving agentic AI beyond pilots and into production environments. At the same time, organizations are putting strict conditions around autonomy, making governance and control the next major…
campustechnology.comResearch Studies Suggest AI Is Accelerating Familiar Cyber Attacks
Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference suggests that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.
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Wednesday, August 12
White House Intros Classified Cybersecurity Review for Frontier AI Models
The White House is moving forward with a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of advanced artificial intelligence models, though the standards guiding those evaluations remain classified.
campustechnology.comCybersecurity Researchers: AI Has Crossed into the Live Attack Chain
AI is moving beyond assisting cybercriminals and beginning to operate within live attacks, according to a new report from Check Point Research. The technology is making sophisticated capabilities faster and more accessible while creating new security risks for businesses deploying their own AI systems.
campustechnology.comReport: Cloud Crime on the Rise as Attackers Exploit Trust
CrowdStrike's 2026 Threat Hunting Report traces a multiyear shift from conventional intrusions toward attacks that exploit trusted identities, cloud services, AI systems and software dependencies.
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Monday, August 10
Report: AI Attacks Push Organizations Toward Autonomous Cybersecurity Defense
Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities, and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond.
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Friday, August 7
Microsoft, Nvidia Move Enterprise AI Toward Active Cyber Defense
AI security is entering a new stage as organizations look beyond protecting models from prompt injection, unauthorized access, and data exposure.
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Wednesday, August 5
Gartner Marks Enterprise Move from AI Experiments to AI Engineering
According to Gartner's recent "Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture, 2026" report, enterprises are moving from AI experimentation toward a more industrialized approach to AI delivery.
campustechnology.comTech Industry Leaders Launch Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and 36 other partners are targeting agent security across multi-vendor clouds by combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning, and software supply-chain security.
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Tuesday, August 4
Malware Turns Microsoft 365 Calendar Into Covert Attack Vector
Security researchers at Group-IB have uncovered a Windows malware strain that turns Microsoft 365 calendars into covert channels for receiving commands and stealing files from targeted organizations.
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Monday, August 3
Report: Content Infrastructure, Governance Lag Behind Agentic AI Adoption
AI agents have quickly moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new report from cloud content management company Box.
campustechnology.comPhishing Report Emphasizes Importance of Building a Security Culture
While cybersecurity teams have invested heavily in e-mail protection, endpoint security, and identity controls, new research from Fortra suggests one challenge remains difficult to solve: users.
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