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The small-business software company is cutting 30 to 35 jobs, with the majority of the layoffs affecting employees in Israel. It holds hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves.
Read the original →The Amazon founder believes rising productivity could make shorter workweeks possible. Some people may eventually earn enough to support their families while working three days a week. Others might find that one income is enough to run their household.
Read the original →BC Card and Woori Card cut information security staff this year. They were the only two of eight Korean card issuers to do so, according to FSS data.
Read the original →Half of firms in a Bessemer and Bain survey have cut or plan to cut staff due to healthcare AI. Billing and claims teams are the most common targets.
Read the original →The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
Read the original →Google said the Gemini agent can write and run code and integrate into apps like Gmail. It can also help workers complete everyday workplace tasks.
Read the original →Google Cloud's new Gemini agent automates workflows by connecting to a business's systems. Google says it can streamline enterprise tasks in one prompt.
Read the original →Downloadable models, from Llama 2 to DeepSeek-V2, widened who could build with AI. Open weights did not mean open data, easy deployment or zero cost.
Read the original →An Illinois Grok user sued the chatbot's owners and developers, SpaceXAI Corp. and SpaceXAI LLC. The suit alleges the companies illegally scanned users' facial geometry when they uploaded photos for editing or analysis.
Read the original →SpaceXAI joins the Omarchy Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron with $1.5 million in Grok tokens. This brings total backing to about $23.2 million.
Read the original →Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot skills and agents help sales and service teams access customer context, automate workflows and take action in Teams.
Read the original →Belgium's Competition Authority has received complaints that Microsoft is bundling its Copilot AI software across its wider productivity platform. This is according to the head of the authority's investigative unit.
Read the original →OnlyOffice released its autumn update 10.0 with context-aware AI tools in the editors, new modular Apps and a security upgrade. The update includes around 50 new features and more than 1,000 fixes for the online, desktop and mobile editors.
Read the original →A Microsoft executive says RTX Spark laptops pave the way to running 284B AI models locally. According to the executive, these models outperform GPT-5 in coding and reasoning benchmarks.
Read the original →Xiaomi has promoted Luo Fuli, an early core researcher from DeepSeek, to the vice president-level rank of 22. The promotion came just 10 months after she joined the company.
Read the original →Angle Bush is the founder and CEO of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence. She has a running question for the group's members: Are you in the lab?
Read the original →Bricklayer AI, which describes itself as the operating platform for the AI security workforce, announced that it has been awarded "Agentic AI Security Platform of the Year." The award comes from the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program.
Read the original →Some worry that generative AI could render lawyers obsolete. The article says the more pressing question is whether and how lawyers can use the technology within the confines of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Read the original →The World Bank tested AI to research building energy laws across 119 cities. The approach combined exact legal citations, independent AI review, and human verification.
Read the original →Goodfire has launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check. Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors look inside the model while it works. They call in backup only when something looks suspicious.
Read the original →Ask TRR enhances personalized discovery across more than one million unique luxury items. The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) made the announcement on Oct. 8, 2026.
Read the original →Even after 33 years of building Nvidia, Jensen Huang still works seven days a week. He says building something incredible requires "suffering."
Read the original →A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans think AI is developing too fast. The vast majority of U.S. adults say it is highly important for the government to ensure AI stays under human control and that U.S. workers are protected. Few think either major political party is better equipped to handle AI, and President Donald Trump has a low approval rating on the issue.
Read the original →The piece responds to widespread concern over the surge of artificial intelligence. It asks about the specifics of a looming destruction.
Read the original →The president's latest outburst comes as his push to rebrand the emerging technology increasingly falls flat.
Read the original →AI smart glasses are spreading fast despite a fitful start and privacy concerns. Meta Platforms leads, but it has challenges to overcome.
Read the original →The book was written after hundreds of hours of conversations with the DeepMind founder and his associates over three years. The description says it could well be a definitive account of AI.
Read the original →According to The Verge's senior AI reporter, Luca Guadagnino's dark comedy hit all the familiar tech milestones.
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