Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers. Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and re-create Snaps by entering their own prompts. They can then share the image with their friends, post it to their Story, or share it outside of Snapchat. While Snapchat already has numerous generative AI Lenses, the company notes that Imagine Lens is its first open prompt image-generation Lens. Users can generate images using custom prompts. The Lens also features pre-loaded prompts that people can use. Snapchat notes that users can always tap the caption bar to edit their prompt into anything they’d like. Snapchat+ Platinum and Lens+ subscribers can find the new Lens in the front of the Lens Carousel or in the Exclusive category. After selecting the Lens, they can tap the caption to enter or edit the prompt. A Platinum subscription costs $15.99 per month, while a Lens+ subscription costs $8.99 per month.
YouTube’s first exclusive NFL game draws 17.3M global AMA, setting a platform record and showcasing creator-led broadcast to woo advertisers
Youtube’s first-ever exclusive global broadcast of an NFL game broke a record for the company, achieving the most concurrent viewers of a livestream on the platform. Over 17.3 million viewers from more than 230 countries and territories worldwide tuned in for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers in São Paulo. This figure represents the average minute audience (AMA) that watched the game last Friday. In the U.S., there were 16.2 million AMA across YouTube and other platforms, according to Nielsen data, while YouTube’s own numbers indicated 1.1 million AMA outside the U.S. This exclusive broadcast is part of YouTube’s expanded partnership with the NFL aimed at attracting more ad revenue, and the company likely hopes that this new achievement will be well-received by advertisers. However, in comparison to other NFL broadcasts on streaming platforms, the viewership numbers are slightly lower than those of Netflix. While the numbers may seem underwhelming, YouTube believes its creator-driven viewing experience sets it apart from rivals
Walmart partners with OpenAI to deliver free, customized AI training certifications via Walmart Academy for all U.S. frontline and office associates starting in 2026
Beginning next year, all U.S. front-line and office-based associates at Walmart will have access to AI training through a new collaboration with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. As indicated by Chief People Officer Donna Morris, OpenAI is launching a new OpenAI Certifications program, and Walmart is working with them to create a customized experience for its own associates. Through Walmart Academy, the largest private training program in the world, with more than 3.5 million participants, associates will have free access to a tailored version of this certification. The training is designed to help associates succeed at work, grow their careers and thrive in an increasingly digital world. John Furner, president and CEO, Walmart U.S said, “By bringing AI training directly to our associates, we’ll enable our people to maximize the benefit of AI-powered technology – giving them the skills they need to rewrite the playbook and shape the future of retail.” While this certification will launch in 2026, associates can currently access training opportunities, including AI training, through the company’s Live Better U education benefit. The collaboration with OpenAI builds on Walmart’s nearly $1 billion commitment to skills training through 2026.
Socialsuite Socialsuite-ServiceNow partnership delivers unified ESG, risk, and sustainability management platform with AI-driven insights aligned with global compliance standards
Socialsuite, a provider of sustainability risk management software, today announced an integrated solution with ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation. This collaboration combines ServiceNow® enterprise ESG and risk management capabilities with Socialsuite’s AI-powered double materiality (financial and impact) and stakeholder engagement platform to help organizations accelerate compliance and further automate sustainability workflows. The integrated offering supports full-spectrum ESG risk management—from stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment to reporting and controls—aligning with global standards including the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and IFRS Sustainability Standards. Partnership Highlights: ServiceNow customers gain access to Socialsuite’s powerful materiality software, offering rapid, AI-enhanced assessments compliant with IFRS (financial materiality) and CSRD (double materiality) requirements. Socialsuite customers can now deploy ServiceNow ESG Management and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) solutions, helping unify governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and sustainability workflows. AI integration will connect Socialsuite’s benchmarking engine with ServiceNow Now Assist for ESG, enabling automated insights and smarter reporting across ESG and risk domains. Joint go-to-market and co-marketing efforts will raise awareness of the unified solution through webinars, events, and cross-sell initiatives. Seth Forman, CEO of Socialsuite. “In partnership with ServiceNow, we’re delivering a scalable, intelligent solution designed for this critical moment – empowering companies to confidently manage their sustainability risks and obligations with a reliable, streamlined process and platform.”
Microsoft-backed Sola Security’s no-code AI cybersecurity platform enable teams to build custom threat detection apps with graph research capabilities
Sola Security offers an artificial intelligence platform that enables cybersecurity teams to build threat detection apps using prompts. To use the platform, workers must specify the systems they wish to monitor and the kind of vulnerabilities that they’re looking to track. Sola Security then automatically generates the software components necessary to perform the task. The platform first connects to the systems that it’s instructed to monitor and collects cybersecurity data. Companies can create apps that detect vulnerable assets such as Amazon S3 buckets without encryption enabled. According to Sola Security, its platform also spots issues that affect employee accounts. Customers can build apps that identify accounts with access to more data or systems than strictly necessary. Sola Security says that user-created apps can visualize their findings in graphs to ease analysis. According to the company, its platform regularly checks for new vulnerabilities and generates an alert when one is found. A chatbot embedded in custom apps allows customers to analyze the data with natural language questions. The platform uses a feature dubbed graph research to answer some user questions. According to the company, the technology helps cybersecurity teams determine whether an issue in one system might affect other assets. For example, it could point out if a vulnerability in a tool that a company uses to manage administrator accounts might expose its cloud environment to cyberattacks. Users can modify the dashboards that Sola generates using a no-code customization tool. An administrator might create one version of a database monitoring dashboard for the cybersecurity team and another for the business workers who use the database. For customers that don’t require extensive customization, Sola offers prepackaged cybersecurity apps built by its engineers.
Palo Alto Networks launches Prisma SASE 4.0 with AI agent oversight, browser threat protection and secures 5,000+ AI apps
Palo Alto Networks added more capabilities to its fast-growing Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform by leveraging AI to create what the company calls “a blueprint for the AI-ready enterprise.” The Secure Access Service Edge service delivers protection against AI-powered threats, data security that adapts to how information flows, and unified operations capable of intelligent scaling. These new features break the mold of “legacy SASE,” which is focused on replacement of traditional wide-area network technology with cloud-first offerings. All the new features in Prisma SASE 4.0 are geared toward enabling companies to protect against AI-driven threats and to safeguard data wherever it resides or moves to. The innovations of Prisma 4.0 focus on three key areas: Deploying SaaS agent security to “safeguard the AI frontier”: Prisma SASE 4.0 provides direct oversight of AI agents. As employees connect tools like Microsoft Copilot to sensitive corporate data, these agents can act autonomously, creating new pathways for data leaks through unvetted prompts or risky plugins. This creates new risks, and the new SaaS Agent Security gives security teams the visibility it needs to see which agents are in use, control data access and block risky activities. AI based innovation is important but can’t be at the cost of putting a business at risk.
Apiiro report finds AI-assisted coding increases developer speed fourfold but raises security risks tenfold amid rising architectural flaws and secret exposures
A new report from application security posture management company Apiiro Ltd. details a tenfold increase in security findings among Copilot users, peaking in mid-2025. Two primary factors were found to be driving the surge: open-source dependencies and secure coding issues. AI-assisted developers were found to be more prone to design-level flaws versus conventional developers, who were more likely to introduce logic mistakes. The architectural weaknesses are more costly to remediate and harder to catch later on, creating a structural challenge for organizations trying to balance speed with security. Secrets exposure was also found to diverge between developers. Developers working with Copilot leaked higher volumes of cloud credentials, while non-Copilot users were more likely to expose generic application programming interface tokens. The key takeaway is that AI assistance may inadvertently amplify risks related to cloud identity and credential management. The findings in the report include that developers using AI tools on average generate three to four times more commits on average, but the contributions were consolidated into fewer, larger pull requests, or proposed code changes. The increased throughput was found to accelerate delivery but also add complexity for application security teams — since traditional review processes are now insufficient to keep up with the scale and intricacy of AI-assisted code. The report also details how average pull request sizes and commit volumes have sharply increased as AI coding assistance has been adopted. AI-assisted developers were found to produce more code but open fewer pull requests. Larger, more complex code submissions are noted as elevating the risk of shallow reviews and missed vulnerabilities. Apiiro’s researchers warn that though AI code assistants can drive dramatic improvements in developer productivity, they also introduce new categories of risk that organizations must address
Xero introduces AI superagent to automate routine tasks and workflows, like bank reconciliations, data entry, and getting paid; offers proactive suggestions and a unified view of a business’ data
Xero, a global small business platform, has announced the next evolution of its AI financial superagent, JAX. JAX automates routine tasks and workflows, providing actionable insights and empowering customers to focus on growth and relationships. The platform is built on Xero’s agentic platform and will collaborate with OpenAI on its deep web research feature to bring financial information from the web into Xero. The new features will help meet growing demand for AI innovation among the platform’s user base, with 73% of customers using AI since March. Orchestrating multiple agents on Xero’s platform, Xero’s AI Superagent JAX is designed to deliver A reimagined experience to replace scattered tools: Through one intelligent interface, JAX will unify the xero experience and learn a business’s rhythms, automatically adapting to how that business operates. Automated actions and workflows — ‘Just Done with your control’: JAX will automate routine tasks and workflows, like bank reconciliations, data entry, and getting paid–which saves customers valuable time and helps them stay compliant. Access to actionable insights: Combining deep insights from across Xero customers’ businesses and connected apps, as well as collaborating with OpenAI on web research, JAX will move information beyond static reports. JAX will provide timely, proactive suggestions and a unified view of a business’ data, helping customers explore their financial data and dig deeper with Xero’s advanced financial insights. All of this will empower customers to make smarter, more informed decisions. A trusted partner built for you, with you: JAX offers a trusted partnership built on security, privacy and Xero’s decades of accounting expertise, which is essential to delivering reliable and contextual insights. Xero’s proprietary JAX Assure control system further supports increased accuracy and fewer “hallucinations” compared to conventional AI tools that rely solely on large language models. By proactively spotting potential issues and helping to keep financial data more clean and accurate, JAX acts as an always-on dedicated team.
Fujitsu’s new distillation technology enables agentic AI deployment on smartphones and factory machinery by creating lightweight, power-efficient models that cuts memory consumption by 94%, and retains 89% accuracy
Fujitsu has developed a new reconstruction technology for generative AI, which will strengthen the Fujitsu Takane LLM by creating lightweight, power-efficient AI models. The technology is based on two innovations: quantization and specialized AI distillation. The proprietary 1-bit quantization technology reduces memory consumption by 94% and maintains an 89% accuracy retention rate, allowing large generative AI models to operate on a single low-end GPU. The specialized AI distillation reduces model size and enhances accuracy beyond the original model. This lightweighting capability will enable the deployment of sophisticated agentic AI on devices like smartphones and factory machinery, improving real-time responsiveness, data security, and power consumption. Fujitsu plans to roll out trial environments for Takane in the second half of fiscal year 2025.
Motion, a task management app, will build a Microsoft Office of AI agents for SMBs; unifying exec assistant, sales, support, and marketing across Slack, Google, Teams, Salesforce
Y Combinator-backed startup Motion is an AI calendaring and task management app which recently launched an integrated AI agent bundle for SMBs. Its appeal is that all agentic functions (each with a different human name) are integrated with the others. So far the suite includes an “executive assistant” for automating scheduling, note taking, email replies; a sales rep; a customer support rep; and a blog- and social-media-post writing marketing assistant. The agents also integrate with hundreds of other typical SMB tools like Slack, Google Apps, Teams, Salesforce, etc. Motion charges via usage: a base set of credits, plus additional credits as needed, depending on the number of agents used. Prices range from $29 per month for one seat, 1,000 credits and limited agent functions, to $600 for 25 seats and all agents, 250,000 credits. Then custom pricing from there. Co-founder Harry Qi views Motion like building the agentic equivalent of Microsoft Office. “There’s an opportunity here to build the next Microsoft,” he said. “You basically have to build all the applications.” This is in contrast to buying point AI products — a sales rep, a customer service bot, a blog-writing one — that don’t work together.