eWEEK Staff

A newly published WHOOP patent application reveals a possible path toward wrist-based glucose monitoring, while major accuracy and regulatory questions remain.

Google is challenging a child-safety assessment of AI Overviews and AI Mode, but schools still lack a dedicated way to disable generated Search answers.

Apple’s watchOS 27 public beta brings Siri AI to the Apple Watch with conversational features, personal-context searches, and cross-device continuity, but hardware, regional, and reliability limits remain.

Samsung is promising better battery life and expanded health tracking for the Galaxy Watch 9, but key compatibility and hardware questions remain.

Uber and Waymo are pushing different robotaxi strategies as federal and state lawmakers weigh preemption, safety reporting, and who controls access to riders.

China’s warning about alleged Claude Code backdoors is widening the divide between U.S. and Chinese AI ecosystems while creating new security and procurement risks for multinational enterprises.

A Google Cloud survey of 1,402 IT leaders found that 83% of organizations need infrastructure upgrades for production-grade agentic AI. The report highlights rising inference costs, governance gaps, power demands, and vendor lock-in risks.

The European Commission’s new AI cybersecurity plan signals closer scrutiny of model testing, supplier risk, and AI-enabled threats, while the ECB is already requiring major banks to submit formal action plans.

The UK’s Cyber Shield plan could bring AI into national cyber defense, but security leaders still need answers on authority, trust, and oversight.

Anthropic’s Reflect beta turns Claude memory into a visual recap of user activity. The feature is limited to personal plans, giving IT teams a new reason to review how employees use unmanaged Claude accounts for work.

Robotic elephants are appearing in Indian temples, offering a safer alternative to live animals while sparking resistance from devotees and festival groups.

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