AI 2025 trends

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice LLMs to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other harmful actions.

Over the past few years, many of us have gotten a crash course in what we now call artificial intelligence—but really, it has mostly been a crash course in large language models. Increasingly, however, LLMs are no longer the only category of AI drawing high expectations, massive funding rounds, and significant research and product development.

The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

Should you say please and thank you to chatbots? This week on “Hard Fork,” Kevin and Casey talk with professor and A.I. expert Jeff Sebo about why he feels it’s important to be nice to your future robot overlords.

Build numbers are easy to treat as trivia until they become the deciding factor in a support case, security review, failed upgrade, or lifecycle audit. Most teams know whether they are running “vSphere 8” or “vSphere 9.” Fewer teams can quickly answer the more useful operational question: Which exact vCenter and ESX/ESXi builds are running

Earnings season kicks off in earnest on Tuesday with big banks up first. Corporate America faces a high bar to beat investor expectations.

TL;DR A VCF 9.1 upgrade should not be treated like a normal maintenance window where each team updates its component, checks a dashboard, and leaves. The sequence matters. The ownership model matters. The readiness evidence matters. For VCF 9.1, VCF Operations is not a side task after the platform upgrade. Existing Aria Operations instances must

Public market software multiples are hovering at decade lows as investors price in the long-term risk of AI disruption. Meanwhile, private market valuations for AI startups continue to hit record highs. Striking a balance between these two conflicting signals is the central challenge for today’s growth equity investors. To understand how institutional capital is navigating

Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.

We won’t get the A.I. regulation we deserve until we change how we think about the right to code.