Google Duet AI, IBM Mainframe AI, and NCSC LLM Warning: What’s Next for Enterprise Tech

Google Duet AI arrives in Google Workspace

Google has introduced a trial version of Duet AI for Google Workspace, embedding real‑time AI assistance directly into the suite to streamline collaboration, automate note‑taking, generate summaries, and even attend meetings on the user’s behalf.

Features include AI‑enhanced Meet audio/video quality, dynamic speaker tiles with facial detection, automatic subtitles in 18 languages, and a “Take notes for me” function that captures action items and video clips during meetings.

Digital Guangdong apologises over CEC‑IDE licensing claims

The company issued an apology for its CEC‑IDE product, which was marketed as a “Chinese‑styled VS Code” but inadvertently omitted the MIT license notice required for Visual Studio Code derivatives. The apology acknowledges the oversight and reaffirms support for open‑source software.

NCSC warns that LLMs are still “beta” products

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cautions technology leaders that building systems with large language models (LLMs) carries security risks because the behaviour of these models is not fully understood and API‑based services can change or disappear without notice.

IBM launches Watsonx Code Assistant for Z to modernise mainframe apps

IBM introduced a generative‑AI‑powered assistant, Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, built on a model trained with 1.5 trillion tokens and 20 billion parameters. It helps developers incrementally convert COBOL services to high‑quality Java code, automate testing, and accelerate mainframe modernisation while preserving performance, security, and resilience.

OpenSSF publishes a manifesto urging the software industry to own open‑source security

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) released an Open‑Source Consumer Manifesto that calls on software producers to recognise their responsibility for supply‑chain security, adopt best‑practice tooling, audit vulnerable components, and collaborate with open‑source maintainers.