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Cyber Resilience Pledge: Essential FAQ Guide to Avoid Risk

The UK government’s Cyber Resilience Pledge launched on 7 July 2026 with more than sixty founding signatories and three specific commitments: board-level ownership of cyber risk, registration for the NCSC Early Warning service, and a risk-based push for Cyber Essentials across supply chains. This FAQ covers what it costs, who is checking, and whether signing changes anything.

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Paying Artists to Embrace AI: Inside Pippa’s Royalty Model

Text-to-video startup Pippa pays illustrators $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a 5% share of subscription revenue. It is the clearest test yet of whether compensation alone can bring artists over to generative AI, or whether consent, credit and stylistic control were always the bigger obstacles.

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Gemini Desktop App to Add MCP Support and Media Generation Tabs

Google is testing custom MCP server connections and dedicated image and video generation tabs in the Gemini desktop app. Here is what each change does, why MCP support matters more than the media tabs, the security questions to settle first, and what businesses should do before the features reach general availability.

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AI Studio Artifacts Folder: Why Generated Files Finally Have a Permanent Home

Generated files have been the least-managed output in modern development. A model produces exactly the code, document, or export you asked for, it renders inside a conversation, and within a day nobody can find it again. The AI Studio Artifacts folder is the correction: one project-scoped location where generated output persists as files rather than […]

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