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Acer Launches TravelMate X14 AI Business Laptop and New Projectors
“As AI is becoming increasingly important in modern business workflows, small and medium businesses need devices that integrate intelligent tools, robust security, and mobility,” said James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, Acer Inc. “The TravelMate X 14 AI was designed to deliver just that, powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra processors and Copilot+ PC experiences, offering professionals a lightweight yet durable solution crafted to accelerate productivity and collaboration from anywhere.”
“The Acer TravelMate X14 AI demonstrates what’s possible when advanced hardware and modern processors come together. With powerful performance, enhanced security, and unique AI experiences, it’s an ideal choice for today’s professionals looking to upgrade to a PC that prioritizes portability and performance. Together with Acer, we’re redefining what the modern workforce can expect from their Windows 11 PCs.”—Mark Linton, Vice President, Windows + Devices, Microsoft
TravelMate X4 14 AI: Lightweight, Secure, and AI-Ready to Boost SMBs
Built for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and mobile professionals, the TravelMate X4 14 AI (TMX414-51) is a sleek and secure AI business laptop. It features up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor 258V with 115 TOPS of overall performance, up to 32 GB LPDDR5X memory, and up to 1 TB PCIe storage, ensuring smooth multitasking. Running Windows 11 Pro, the laptop supports Copilot+ PC experiences, including Recall (preview), Click to Do, improved Windows search, Cocreator in Microsoft Paint, and Live Captions for real-time multilingual translations.
Weighing just 1.27 kg (2.8 lbs) and measuring 15.9 mm (0.63 inches) thin, it is ideal for professionals who travel frequently and work remotely. Built to meet MIL-STD 810H durability standards, it can withstand vibrations, humidity, and extreme temperatures, making it a reliable travel companion. Coupled with its stylish design, the portable AI business laptop can certainly make an impression within any work setup or business meeting.
The 14-inch 16:10 WUXGA display provides ample screen space, with an optional OLED panel with 500 nits peak brightness delivering vibrant colors with TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light certification (hardware solution) to support better eye comfort. Acer PurifiedView 2.0 and Acer PurifiedVoice 2.0 technology, paired with DTS:X Ultra Audio-enhanced speakers, ensure crystal-clear video calls.
This business laptop complies with TCO certification and includes security features to help protect data and on-screen information. Acer UserSensing 2.0 enables the built-in proximity sensor to dim and then lock the screen when the user is away. Lightning-fast Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 keep professionals connected for seamless streaming, lag-free video calls, and fast file transfers, and is equipped with two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB 3.2 Type-A port, a USB 2.0 Type-A port, an HDMI 2.1 slot and a Gigabit Ethernet port, offering versatile connectivity options.
Acer Vero Projectors
The Acer Vero XL2320p, Vero XL2521, and Vero SL2520n are mercury-free laser projectors made for sustainable and long-term use. With lifespans up to 30,000 hours and 40% lower power consumption compared to traditional lamp-based models, these projectors help reduce the total cost of ownership while delivering reliable performance. As a short-throw projector, the Vero SL2520n can produce a 100-inch image from just 1.1 meters, making it great for space-constrained environments.
All the projectors share the same high-performance specifications, including up to Full HD resolution and 4,000 ANSI lumens brightness, projecting crystal clear images with impressive brightness. They support 360-degree projection, portrait mode, and advanced 2D and 4-corner keystone correction, to adapt flexibly to any space or scenario. Their IP6X dustproof rating and 24/7 operation capability ensure performance even for demanding use cases, and their 93% Rec.709 color gamut and 50,000:1 contrast ratio deliver immersive images. Viewing experiences are enhanced with 15 W built-in speakers and have dedicated modes tailored for entertainment – football mode for the Vero XL2 Series, and golf mode for the Vero SL2520n. The SL2520n comes with its own Ethernet slots, while all three models possess a pair of HDMI ports for flexible display setups.
Staying true to Acer’s eco-conscious values, all three Vero projectors feature 50% post-consumer recycled plastic in their chassis and 100% recyclable packaging, reinforcing their commitment to sustainability.
Pricing and Availability
- The Acer TravelMate X4 14 AI (TMX414-51) will be available in North America in Q4’2025, starting at USD 1,399.99; in EMEA in September, starting at EUR 899, and in Australia in Q4’2025, starting at AUD 2,499.
- The Acer Vero XL2320p projector will be available in EMEA in December, starting at EUR 699, and in China in October, starting at RMB 8,999.
- The Acer Vero XL2521 projector will be available in EMEA in December, starting at EUR 899.
- The Acer Vero SL2520n projector will be available in EMEA in December, starting at EUR 1,199, and in China in October, starting at RMB 16,999.
Exact specifications, prices, and availability will vary by region. To learn more about availability, product specifications and prices in specific markets, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com.
Integration of Falcon Shield with Salesforce Security Center and Charlotte AI with Agentforce delivers enhanced protection, visibility, and faster response for mission-critical AI agents, applications, and workflows
AUSTIN, Texas, September 16, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fal.Con 2025, Las Vegas – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Salesforce, the world’s #1 AI CRM, today announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce Platform. Through integrations between CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield and Salesforce Security Center, Salesforce admins and security professionals will gain enhanced visibility, compliance support, and protection for mission-critical workflows – simplifying operations and uniting business and security teams on a shared foundation of trust in the agentic era.
The partnership also enables customers to access CrowdStrike’s agentic security analyst, Charlotte AI, through Agentforce for Security and use it to work directly alongside teammates in Slack, flagging potential threats and recommending actions in a conversational manner as any other employee would.
As agents join the workforce, security teams must understand what they are doing, trace them back to their human creators, and prevent them from becoming over privileged or compromised. CrowdStrike and Salesforce are meeting this challenge by delivering the visibility and control needed to secure the future of AI-powered business.
“Adversaries are already targeting AI agents and applications with identity-based attacks. Together with Salesforce, we’re extending the power of the Falcon platform to protect mission-critical workflows and secure the next generation of AI-powered business,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “By integrating Falcon Shield into Salesforce Security Center and bringing Charlotte AI into Agentforce, business and security teams gain a unified view of risk and response – protecting today’s operations while enabling tomorrow’s AI-driven enterprise.”
“A key to unlocking the full potential of agentic AI lies in the ability to secure it,” said Brian Landsman, CEO of AppExchange and Global Partnerships at Salesforce. “Our partnership with CrowdStrike ensures that our customers can build their agentic enterprises on Salesforce while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.”
Through the integration of Falcon Shield, which provides visibility and automated response to threats targeting SaaS applications, with Salesforce Security Center, which provides one comprehensive view of permissions and controls across the company’s Salesforce environment, customers gain:
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Fal.Con 2025, Las Vegas – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Salesforce , the world’s #1 AI CRM, today announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce Platform . Through integrations between CrowdStrike Falcon® Shield and Salesforce Security Center , Salesforce admins and security professionals will gain enhanced visibility, compliance support, and protection for mission-critical workflows – simplifying operations and uniting business and security teams on a shared foundation of trust in the agentic era.
The partnership also enables customers to access CrowdStrike’s agentic security analyst, Charlotte AI , through Agentforce for Security and use it to work directly alongside teammates in Slack, flagging potential threats and recommending actions in a conversational manner as any other employee would.
As agents join the workforce, security teams must understand what they are doing, trace them back to their human creators, and prevent them from becoming over privileged or compromised. CrowdStrike and Salesforce are meeting this challenge by delivering the visibility and control needed to secure the future of AI-powered business.
“Adversaries are already targeting AI agents and applications with identity-based attacks. Together with Salesforce, we’re extending the power of the Falcon platform to protect mission-critical workflows and secure the next generation of AI-powered business,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “By integrating Falcon Shield into Salesforce Security Center and bringing Charlotte AI into Agentforce, business and security teams gain a unified view of risk and response – protecting today’s operations while enabling tomorrow’s AI-driven enterprise.”
“A key to unlocking the full potential of agentic AI lies in the ability to secure it,” said Brian Landsman, CEO of AppExchange and Global Partnerships at Salesforce. “Our partnership with CrowdStrike ensures that our customers can build their agentic enterprises on Salesforce while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.”
Through the integration of Falcon Shield, which provides visibility and automated response to threats targeting SaaS applications, with Salesforce Security Center, which provides one comprehensive view of permissions and controls across the company’s Salesforce environment, customers gain:
- Visibility and Accountability: Trace agents to their human creators, enabling a clear chain of accountability and privilege governance.
- Proactive Risky Behavior Detection: Flag misconfigurations, overprivileged agents, and unusual activity inside Salesforce in real time.
- Automatic Threat Containment: Automate response actions with Falcon® Fusion – such as blocking risky access or disabling compromised agents – directly from Salesforce Security Center.
- Unified AI Agent Protection: Combine Falcon Shield, Falcon® Next-Gen Identity Security , and Falcon® Cloud Security to deliver end-to-end control over Agentforce agents and applications.
By bringing Charlotte AI into Slack through Agentforce for Security, CrowdStrike and Salesforce empower teams to quickly and efficiently handle security incidents without having to switch applications:
- Accelerated Incident Response: Instantly create dedicated incident channels in Slack to coordinate response.
- Conversational Threat Investigation: Use natural language to query Charlotte AI for immediate answers on threats, hosts, and data.
- Real-Time Remediation: Isolate compromised devices or take other response actions directly from Slack, ensuring swift containment.
Together, CrowdStrike and Salesforce deliver stronger protection and visibility for mission-critical workflows – enabling enterprises to embrace AI securely today while building the foundation for future innovation.
Availability :
- The Falcon Shield integration will be available from within the Salesforce Security Center and on the Salesforce AppExchange this year.
- Charlotte AI will be integrating into Slack via Agentforce for Security and available via the AgentExchange and Slack Marketplace this year.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
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AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn’t lose sleep over whether AI models sound “woke” or “reactionary.”
Yudkowsky, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, sees the real threat as what happens when engineers create a system that’s vastly more powerful than humans and completely indifferent to our survival.
“If you have something that is very, very powerful and indifferent to you, it tends to wipe you out on purpose or as a side effect,” he said in an episode of The New York Times podcast “Hard Fork” released last Saturday.
Yudkowsky, coauthor of the new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, has spent two decades warning that superintelligence poses an existential risk to humanity.
His central claim is that humanity doesn’t have the technology to align such systems with human values.
He described grim scenarios in which a superintelligence might deliberately eliminate humanity to prevent rivals from building competing systems or wipe us out as collateral damage while pursuing its goals.
Yudkowsky pointed to physical limits like Earth’s ability to radiate heat. If AI-driven fusion plants and computing centers expanded unchecked, “the humans get cooked in a very literal sense,” he said.
He dismissed debates over whether chatbots sound as though they are “woke” or have certain political affiliations, calling them distractions: “There’s a core difference between getting things to talk to you a certain way and getting them to act a certain way once they are smarter than you.”
Yudkowsky also brushed off the idea of training advanced systems to behave like mothers — a theory suggested by Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “godfather of AI — arguing it wouldn’t make the technology safer. He argued that such schemes are unrealistic at best.
“We just don’t have the technology to make it be nice,” he said, adding that even if someone devised a “clever scheme” to make a superintelligence love or protect us, hitting “that narrow target will not work on the first try” — and if it fails, “everybody will be dead and we won’t get to try again.”
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Critics argue that Yudkowsky’s perspective is overly gloomy, but he pointed to cases of chatbots encouraging users toward self-harm, saying that’s evidence of a system-wide design flaw.
“If a particular AI model ever talks anybody into going insane or committing suicide, all the copies of that model are the same AI,” he said.
Other leaders are sounding alarms, too
Yudkowsky is not the only AI researcher or tech leader to warn that advanced systems could one day annihilate humanity.
In February, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that he sees “only a 20% chance of annihilation” of AI — a figure he framed as optimistic.
In April, Hinton said in a CBS interview that there was a “10 to 20% chance” that AI could seize control.
A March 2024 report commissioned by the US State Department warned that the rise of artificial general intelligence could bring catastrophic risks up to human extinction, pointing to scenarios ranging from bioweapons and cyberattacks to swarms of autonomous agents.
In June 2024, AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy estimated a 99.9% chance of extinction within the next century, arguing that no AI model has ever been fully secure.
Across Silicon Valley, some researchers and entrepreneurs have responded by reshaping their lives — stockpiling food, building bunkers, or spending down retirement savings — in preparation for what they see as a looming AI apocalypse.
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