Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product’s debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that for the first time allow developers to fuse open web data with...

Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

Over his 15-year reign as Apple’s top banana, Tim Cook has become instantly recognizable, powerful beyond imagination, and exceedingly wealthy. Most estimates peg Cook’s current net worth at roughly $3 billion, assets that he amassed largely through performance-based...

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect, scope or contain

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

One employee at Vercel adopted an AI tool. One employee at that AI vendor got hit with an infostealer. That combination created a walk-in path to Vercel’s production environments through an OAuth grant that nobody had reviewed.Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js...

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient. Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted the pressure from VCs to commercialize his work. He finally took the...

Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

Apple’s recent crackdown on the MyFitnessPal-owned Cal AI food-logging app demonstrates that the tech giant is still enforcing its strict App Store rules around the use of external payments. The calorie-counting app, which was briefly removed from the App Store last...

The AI governance mirage: Why 72% of enterprises don’t have the control and security they think they do

by News Feed Editor | Apr 21, 2026 | Technology

Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their “primary” layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by VentureBeat last month, revealing real gaps in security and...