The FBI Is Now Tracking AI Scams, and the Losses Are Huge
Americans reported nearly $21 billion in cyber crime losses in 2025, and within that, more than 22,000 complaints were tied to artificial intelligence, totaling about $893 million in losses.
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Global IT spending is expected to rise this year to $6.31 trillion, according to a new forecast from Gartner, a 13.5% increase compared to 2025. According to the research firm, AI is the single most important driver behind the growth, with investments in AI infrastructure, in particular, driving the trend. The data center systems segment is expected to grow by a whopping 55.8% during the year, by far the fastest growing of all categories. At the same time, IT services continue to account for the largest share of total spending and are expected to exceed $1.87 trillion this year. Software is also showing strong growth, particularly in generative AI. Growth is also expected in the device market, though at a significantly slower pace. Overall, the market is expected to reach approximately $856 billion, though Gartner says this growth is being slowed by rising memory prices.
Read full articleAmericans reported nearly $21 billion in cyber crime losses in 2025, and within that, more than 22,000 complaints were tied to artificial intelligence, totaling about $893 million in losses.
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Businesses tend to eye AI spending as a way to reduce headcount, but firms that cut staffers as a result of AI are doing no better than those who don’t, according to new Gartner research. Gartner recently surveyed 350 global business leaders at large organizations already using AI agents and intelligent automation tools and found that 80% of them reported a lowered headcount as a result of AI initiatives — in some cases by up to 20%. But those layoffs appear to be less beneficial than senior leaders might assume. “There’s no connection or correlation between people who are achieving ROI and layoffs,” said Helen Poitevin, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner, adding that labor reduction is “not the best” ROI metric. Other factors such as revenue, growth, and time to market are more effective in achieving a strong ROI. “Those who only look to the workforce tend to be the ‘laggards,’ because they’re not going after the broader set of value that they can get to,” she said. Th
Fortune 500 enterprises will be deploying armies of AI agents by 2028 — to the tune of 150,000 digital “workers,” Gartner said in a survey released this week. That would represent a sharp jump from the average of about 15 agents deployed per company last year. And agents as actual co-working tools are likely to go mainstream within the same time frame, said Max Goss, senior director analyst for Gartner. These agents won’t just be text boxes from which users get responses, but assistants to which actual work can be delegated. “We’ve seen a sort of new appreciation in the industry of what agent AI can do,” Goss said. Many AI agents can already handle basic tasks such as summarizing documents on behalf of workers. Upcoming agents will be able to take spreadsheets and word documents, automate work, and offer an interface that makes the tools friendlier to use, Goss said. That’s already happening in applications such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, with easy-to-use AI interfaces, aut
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Florida has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI following a deadly shooting in 2025 at Florida State University, Attorney General James Uthmeier said Tuesday. Authorities are looking into claims that the company's ChatGPT chatbot provided information to the suspect prior to the attack.
Florida has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT following a deadly shooting at Florida State University in 2025.
Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025 Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a “pitiful” low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows. An analysis of 1.14bn online stories published worldwide between 2017 and 2025 found that the proportion of articles that include terms relating to misogynistic abuse dropped to a “dismal” 1.3% of all global online news in 2025, the lowest level in that period. Coverage peaked at 2.2% in 2018, the height of the #MeToo movement. In Africa, where multiple conflicts have involved extreme levels of sexual violence, coverage sank to a nine-year low of 1.18% in 2024. Continue reading...