Google is rolling out a new slate of artificial intelligence features for Gmail, signaling a major shift in how the world’s most widely used email platform functions, from inbox to AI-powered personal assistant. The new capabilities, announced Thursday, are designed to help users write more effectively, surface information buried across years of email, and proactively generate daily to-do lists. Google is initially launching the features in English for users in the United States, with plans...

Two former employees of prominent cybersecurity incident response firms have pleaded guilty to participating in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks that targeted U.S. companies in 2023, federal prosecutors said. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, 33, of Watkinsville, Georgia, and Kevin Tyler Martin, 28, of Roanoke, Texas, admitted to conspiring to obstruct commerce by extortion. Both face sentences of up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for March 12, 2026. Goldberg, a former incident...

The U.S. economy expanded at a far faster pace than anticipated in the third quarter, driven primarily by resilient consumer spending, according to a delayed government report released Tuesday. Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of 4.3% from July through September, well above the 3.2% increase economists had forecast, the Commerce Department said in its initial estimate of third-quarter growth. Consumer spending — the backbone of the U.S. economy — accelerated sharply, rising...