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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes artificial intelligence could allow people to work fewer days while maintaining comfortable living standards. His vision of a possible three-day workweek has drawn criticism online amid growing concerns about job security.
Read the original →An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a publicly accessible web form, Philadelphia police said Friday.
Read the original →The company said users may have used Claude for biological research that could pose risks.
Read the original →Google's Gemini AI faced partial outages on Friday. Users worldwide reported problems with AI generation.
Read the original →The AI agent handled some tasks well but also stumbled. The author says Google's track record gives reason to look beyond the missteps.
Read the original →The guide describes building a multi-model AI image generator benchmark in 13 steps. It compares Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, Seedream 5, and Grok Imagine via API.
Read the original →a16z's latest AI app rankings add U.S. spending data, showing where people pay. Meta, OpenAI and xAI are pursuing personal agents for a broader audience.
Read the original →The UK ICO secured AI data protection commitments from 10 developers, including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. It paused xAI for a Grok probe.
Read the original →Microsoft is deploying agentic AI across Dynamics 365. Autonomous agents are embedded in Teams, Outlook, and Copilot to transform customer experience.
Read the original →Mistral’s Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, joins Reflection’s Beam in the West’s open AI push. Both plan to publish downloadable weights later in October.
Read the original →atNorth’s Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson examines the rising tension between A.I. growth and ESG commitments. He argues that resolving that tension starts with infrastructure.
Read the original →Ian explains why, thanks to AI, the world is getting much closer to one where robots can be designed for almost any job people can imagine.
Read the original →Legal leaders should ask whether AI is making legal a more effective business partner. The legal teams pulling ahead are not necessarily those deploying the most AI, but those using it to remove friction across the business in ways everyone can see.
Read the original →Rein Security, an AI-native runtime security platform for enterprises, has secured $25 million in Series A financing. The round was co-led by Glilot.
Read the original →Sanas Supervised AI is built on the company's Speech AI platform and lets organizations scale customer interactions through AI while human expertise and supervision stay in control. On the platform, AI agents handle customer calls while a human supervisor governs them.
Read the original →The €1.1 billion SPRINT expansion is on track to increase Dresden capacity to more than one million 300mm wafers annually by the end of 2028. FDX Fusion will bring next-generation, energy-efficient technology for Physical AI to Europe.
Read the original →The article argues that a misunderstanding of history risks giving AI a future of elite patronage instead of widespread prosperity.
Read the original →Musk wrote about AI: "Cruelty to something that believes it is experiencing pain is not ok."
Read the original →Space Exploration Technologies Corp. CEO Elon Musk backed Box Inc. CEO Aaron Levie's warning that the coming wave of autonomous AI agents will demand enormous compute. Companies are preparing for personal assistants, enterprise agent swarms and always-on AI workloads.
Read the original →The piece asks whether tech CEOs who say their products might kill us all are trying to sell something.
Read the original →At Stanford, Google's CEO retold how his father spent a year's salary on his first plane ticket. The story is not new, and the speech kept AI out on purpose.
Read the original →Mark Zuckerberg has spent two years telling investors that Meta's AI spending is paying off across Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. When the company files its taxes, it tells the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a very different story.
Read the original →The piece says AI is transforming what can be built. It argues the real frontier lies in how well we understand, regulate and deploy it.
Read the original →Sam Altman told Vanity Fair that Elon Musk only respects people who hit back. He also spoke about Artificial, the film in which Andrew Garfield plays him.
Read the original →U of T is one of the world's top-ranked universities in AI according to the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Read the original →Every company has knowledge that looks authoritative but actually is not. AI models are now being trained on it.
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