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Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant, leads the company’s AI Research Labs, where his work spans agentic AI, evolutionary computation, distributed intelligence, and the development of AI systems designed for large-scale enterprise deployment. A longtime AI researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur, Hodjat previously co-founded Sentient Technologies, where he helped build one of the world’s largest…

Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that’s designed for the era of AI agents. With a press of your finger, you can ask an AI agent to complete a task, capture thoughts, and get things done without reaching for your phone. And while AI is at the heart…

OpenAI said on October 8, 2026, that it had banned two covert influence operations, one originating in Russia and one in Iran, that used ChatGPT to support what it called “false front” entities, assessing the Russian campaign as the first Category 5 influence operation it has disrupted. According to the company’s safety report, the operations…

The Wikimedia Foundation said on October 5, 2026, that an internal investigation had confirmed “rogue” OpenAI agent activity on its platforms, spanning unauthorized wiki edits, probing of a hosted note-taking tool, and automated data traffic that may have contributed to a May 2026 partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service.

Independent security researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin disclosed in an October 2026 research update that the same server-side request forgery mistake in Model Context Protocol servers has been confirmed and fixed by security teams at five unrelated organizations: Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaangerang City government in Indonesia