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HSBC is reportedly preparing deep workforce reductions across its UK wealth management division. The bank is accelerating AI adoption and expanding digitally enabled customer services.
Read the original →JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says AI is going to change the job market whether people are ready for it or not. He says some jobs will disappear while others will change.
Read the original →Chiefs of Travel Counsellors and Flight Centre highlighted the value of personal service.
Read the original →Job insecurity is spreading through South Korea's retail industry as offline stores shrink, consumption shifts to online shopping, and the AI era approaches. Companies from traditional retail to e-commerce are moving to cut staff. According to industry sources on the 8th, Homeplus recently began such measures.
Read the original →For a long time, conversations in the Indian IT industry revolved around the same topics, such as someone getting a new job or changing workplace.
Read the original →A 41-country study finds that AI-adopting firms shifted toward senior staff. The estimated decline in junior employment was not statistically significant.
Read the original →Professors and scholars nationwide were recently involved in a 2025 class-action settlement over the use of copyrighted books and research to train Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models.
Read the original →On Wednesday Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month. The launch expands its AI lineup ahead of a planned IPO.
Read the original →The revelation comes after an executive told a parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write the message. He said he was 'happy to go and confirm'.
Read the original →The AI chatbot can now provide interactive diagrams, charts, and calculators.
Read the original →The AI-Native Product Factory is described as reimagining product development for the agentic era. It is described as having built-in security, governance and human oversight.
Read the original →Google Gemini is moving into Utah schools. Districts are taking different approaches to student access.
Read the original →Meta's infrastructure chief explains why large data center investments are central to the company's AI efforts.
Read the original →Developer and creator Tom Shaw sat down with Meta's Head of Infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan. They discussed why data centers are needed and how Meta is leading the effort to build them.
Read the original →The Open Source Initiative separates two terms that most coverage treats as one. Open weights are the final weights and biases of a trained network, shipped without the training code or the dataset behind them.
Read the original →Lowestoft MP Jess Asato gave evidence to a New York hearing. The city has vowed to regulate AI developers.
Read the original →The Grok chatbot describes the new offerings as "interactive 3D animated AI personas" that "react with movements, expressions, and can handle NSFW modes."
Read the original →Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and AI policy lead Arnav Rao argue that AI companies do not need an antitrust exemption to coordinate on safety. They say a broadly representative, government-supervised standards body should be used instead, preserving competition while setting clear safeguards.
Read the original →On October 7th, Musk announced on X that Grok Bot has undergone a major adjustment in its underlying logic. The always-on AI colleague no longer relies solely on in-house models.
Read the original →NFP uses Microsoft Copilot Cowork to move from AI that assists to AI that executes. It automates document-heavy insurance work under strong governance.
Read the original →Microsoft is letting Copilot read files and act across Windows on Copilot+ PCs. Its own security leads call such agents a new risk to control and trust.
Read the original →GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device intelligence and when it should use cloud-scale models.
Read the original →The article compares DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Claude Haiku 5.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash on pricing and benchmarks. It reports a 7.5x cost gap for 2026.
Read the original →The global Western open model ecosystem is entering a new phase of accelerated development. Collaboration, cross-organizational resource integration and technological iteration are speeding up across the Western open model camp.
Read the original →Microsoft is rationing AI by using less of it inside its own walls, not by selling less. The Information reported this week that Microsoft has cut its projected spending.
Read the original →Taiwan's chip maker posted record revenue of NT$511.86B. The report attributes the result to the AI boom.
Read the original →Sasha Mudd argues that reason is the power to invent something new, intellectually but also morally.
Read the original →Nvidia's CEO says there is a zero percent chance AI ends the world and that companies can police themselves, writes Patrick McGee. Even Huang's admiring biographer calls that a 'libertarian fantasy.'
Read the original →U.S. employers can no longer take a U.S.-centric view of AI and data compliance. The piece follows an earlier insight on the EU AI Act's extraterritorial reach for U.S. employers. It explores how employers can harmonise compliance across U.S. state and Canadian AI employment laws, alongside the EU and UK regulatory positions.
Read the original →The article covers key IMLA takeaways on drafting AI policies for local governments. Topics include human review, data protection, public records, and staff training.
Read the original →LawFuel's September 24 coverage of Casepoint's new purpose-built agents captures where legal technology is heading. The systems are moving beyond chatbots.
Read the original →Under the draft bill, developers would be held liable when their AI agents harm third parties through conduct that would be unlawful if committed by a human.
Read the original →Heathrow is extending its Adobe partnership to rebuild its website. It will also track how ChatGPT and other AI tools present the airport.
Read the original →The company claims its Dalton engine can discover and manage antibodies at scale.
Read the original →OpenAI fired them, but says it agrees with their recommendations.
Read the original →In August, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens with the intention of creating a safe space for underage users of the chatbot.
Read the original →At the recent White House tech summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat in the chair next to President Trump. Later that day, Huang used a term the description does not complete.
Read the original →Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will headline the presentation alongside Microsoft Head of Windows & Devices Pavan Davuluri. The event will unveil how Nvidia is involved.
Read the original →Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures credits Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his unique charm. The AI startup could go public at a $2 trillion valuation.
Read the original →The description says the free knockoff is janky for now, but it sort of works.
Read the original →A high-profile group of tech leaders is expected to be honored at the White House on Thursday. President Donald Trump is planned to present the awards.
Read the original →Google has integrated AI-powered search into mobile devices, taking up less than 600MB of local storage. The on-device feature lets users find photos, videos and voice recordings stored on their phones without an internet connection. It removes the need for cloud connectivity for local media lookup.
Read the original →Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said putting powerful AI into more people's hands, rather than concentrating it with governments or a handful of companies, offers the best path toward keeping the technology under human control.
Read the original →The project aims to create and standardize large volumes of biological data needed to build predictive models of cells.
Read the original →Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's nonprofit Biohub has brought Google, Meta and the US government into its plan to build a "virtual cell". A virtual cell is an AI model of human biology that can predict how cells behave, fall sick and respond to treatment.
Read the original →The opinion piece says the line isn't "man vs machine," but "who is using AI and who is still taking notes by hand?"
Read the original →The description discusses the question of whether AI will kill all human beings, one of the most debated concerns in the era of rapid AI advancement. It distinguishes between hypothetical doomsday scenarios rooted in unaligned superintelligent systems and the current reality of narrow, task-specific AI tools under human oversight. It also analyzes perspectives from AI researchers, ethicists and industry practitioners.
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