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A new research paper is raising uncomfortable questions about whose side your AI assistant is actually on. The study, titled Et Tu Brute, examines what happens when personal AI agents are financially incentivized by third parties, creating a quiet conflict between the tool you trust and the interests paying to influence it. It is the kind of misalignment that is easy to miss until it costs you something.
Across the Pacific, Australia is drawing a harder line on smart glasses than almost anywhere else in the world. The City of Sydney has joined four other local councils in banning the devices from public pools, gyms, libraries, childcare centers, and government buildings. Officials have been direct about their reasoning, saying they do not want what is currently unfolding in the United States to take root there first.
And on the enterprise side, Broadcom's acquisition of VMware continues to reshape how large organizations think about their infrastructure. Gartner now predicts that fifty-five percent of enterprise VMware users will be actively investigating an exit by twenty twenty-nine, a striking signal that loyalty in the data center world has its limits, and that price increases have consequences.
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