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The Financial Times reported on the 7th, citing multiple sources, that HSBC plans large-scale job cuts across its UK wealth management business. The cuts are part of the bank's push to adopt AI.
Read the original →HSBC Holdings plans to cut about 70% of financial advisers and about half of managerial and specialist staff in its UK wealth management business.
Read the original →Fair Isaac, the credit-scoring firm behind FICO, is reducing its workforce by almost 15%. The cut is part of a larger restructuring focused on AI.
Read the original →As AI changes jobs, staffing and the talent companies look for, firms such as Amazon are rehiring former employees.
Read the original →The bundle offers four lifetime Claude AI professional skills courses for $19.99. It includes more than nine hours of training in Excel, project management, reporting and web development, along with CPD certificates.
Read the original →A human-operated phishing platform impersonates AI ad tools. It captures credentials and MFA codes through browser-in-the-browser login windows.
Read the original →OpenAI has released results and data that it says were generated by a new AI model. It says they resolve many long-standing open mathematics problems.
Read the original →OpenAI enlisted over 260 global physicians to improve ChatGPT's health advice. The effort comes amid legal challenges and a high-stakes push into healthcare.
Read the original →The author says the Skills have saved hours and keep them more productive.
Read the original →Lumio has launched the Arc 7 (2026) with 500 ANSI lumens, Google TV and Gemini AI. It costs around 320 euros.
Read the original →A coastal MP has spoken out against big tech companies and Elon Musk.
Read the original →A Grok outage is affecting users in the US. Of the reports, 52% are linked to AI generation, 28% to the app and 15% to the website, and users report chat and file issues.
Read the original →Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Gemini are compared on CAD pricing, models, data residency and real Canadian use cases for 2026.
Read the original →Microsoft shares have rebounded, supported by renewed optimism around its AI strategy and improving earnings expectations. The stock is again trading close to its record levels.
Read the original →Ivo has launched an affordable open-source model for contract work, branded as Sage. It was built in partnership with River AI by post-training DeepSeek V4 Flash on long-horizon contract work.
Read the original →Chinese AI firms have secured billions in funding. They are targeting infrastructure expansion and global competition with U.S. rivals.
Read the original →AI's next frontier is human expertise, with China building its talent base. The IRS is embracing AI to tackle challenges beyond the technology lab.
Read the original →Valeo's aluminum heat exchanger delivers a 38% increase in cooling capacity and a 25% reduction in electrical consumption. It also offers over a decade of proven corrosion resistance. The company describes it as a major improvement for Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE).
Read the original →Georgieva warns that AI technology creates an economic paradox. It boosts growth while inflating costs.
Read the original →Picking winners and losers in the artificial intelligence industry has not been easy.
Read the original →Federal legislation should establish a floor for AI enforcement, empowering states to go further.
Read the original →Evie Breese reports on the UK's push to lead AI regulation. Ministers are grappling with how far rules should go and which risks to target.
Read the original →In this opinion piece, the author says buyers of AI-enabled companies may inherit liabilities they incorrectly believe are insured. Representation and warranty insurance fails to fill the gap.
Read the original →The new model, named "Le Chonk," is Mistral's first release in five months. Mistral says it outruns some of its Chinese competitors in several areas.
Read the original →Faculty can apply for microgrants or program transformation funding through two new programs.
Read the original →Personal agents already click through checkout pages. Meta, Sierra, NiCE and Genesys want brands to be able to see who sent an agent and what it can do.
Read the original →A deepfake video created by Bilibili content creator "Wang Yuyexing" has gone viral across Chinese and international social media platforms.
Read the original →Jensen Huang's son-in-law is rising to become a key executive at NVIDIA just two years after joining the company. He is seen as having established himself as a figure trusted by CEO Huang.
Read the original →Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic.
Read the original →Google has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices. The launch comes a year after the company introduced EmbeddingGemma for developers.
Read the original →One former Trump official told Nextgov/FCW that the AI czar may be able to work with Congress on governance and laws covering AI.
Read the original →NEON has released the official poster for director Luca Guadagnino's Artificial. The film will be released in theaters on Christmas Day.
Read the original →Australian researchers have joined Project Tapestry, a global effort to build frontier AI models that harness shared knowledge.
Read the original →The article says the idea that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It argues that it is time to challenge that story.
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