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DNB Bank ASA (OSL:DNB) will cut about 400 tech roles as it pivots to AI and digital solutions. It will book restructuring costs in Q4 2026 and expects the full financial impact from Q2 2027, with layoffs concluding by late 2026.
Read the original →IBM India board member Usha Srikanth said AI must remain an assistant, not a substitute for human judgement. Her remarks linked automation-led workplace changes to a growing need for critical thinking, context and discernment.
Read the original →The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have warned that artificial intelligence could worsen the jobs crisis in Nigeria and other countries.
Read the original →A new employment initiative in China seeks to address the labour market effects of artificial intelligence.
Read the original →Claude Opus 5.5 overtakes GPT-6 Astra on the Epoch Capabilities Index by 0.9 points. Mistral Large 4 and Chinese open models are also reshaping the AI race.
Read the original →Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on Monday that capital, not chips, is now the biggest constraint on the company's AI growth. Speaking at a panel in Singapore, he said Broadcom is getting past wafer and memory shortages, but funding will be the hardest limit as AI development continues.
Read the original →AI agents can dig into your life to be as helpful as possible. Muse and Dot can access emails, logins, calendar events and some even report phone notifications.
Read the original →Arden University and Google Cloud will give more than 30,000 students, plus staff, access to Gemini Enterprise for study and workplace preparation. The article also covers the partnership, curriculum plans and limits of the research on AI and career outcomes.
Read the original →Grok 4.7 launched Oct. 11 at $2/M tokens, nearly doubling its Terminal-Bench score. The article compares it with Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Mistral Large 4.
Read the original →Willy Woo's post referenced estimates attributed to Opus 5.5. The estimates assigned a 0.5% probability to quantum computing breaking Bitcoin's signatures within two years and a 0.8% probability for a following period.
Read the original →Azure demand, Copilot adoption and a diversified software business give Microsoft multiple paths to grow, even after its recent pullback.
Read the original →Resilinc has introduced a Microsoft Copilot integration that lets procurement and supply chain teams access real-time supplier risk, disruption and compliance intelligence using natural-language queries. It is meant to help businesses identify exposure across complex global supply networks.
Read the original →Chinese AI models have taken the top five spots in weekly token usage, according to the latest data from OpenRouter, a global large language model aggregation platform.
Read the original →Nvidia fell 17% after DeepSeek's AI model showed high performance at a low reported cost. This raised fears that future AI systems may need fewer GPUs and prompted a broad selloff in AI stocks.
Read the original →At a recent panel, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed the swift integration of Chinese frontier AI models such as DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM. He noted their satisfactory performance and said open-source development enables greater efficiency. Tan also forecast a mainstream shift in quantum computing within three to five years.
Read the original →Chew cautioned that AI's growing capabilities would require stronger safeguards, particularly as autonomous systems become more widely adopted.
Read the original →The US, India and UAE are reshaping the AI landscape through innovation, talent and strategic infrastructure investments.
Read the original →Eleven Duke Law students attended the American Bar Association's annual national security law conference.
Read the original →California employers will be prohibited from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on September 30, 2026. The law requires companies to independently verify certain AI-generated recommendations before taking action and gives employees access to information used against them.
Read the original →The Decatur School Board unanimously approved taking part in legal action against major tech companies over youth social media addiction. It also adopted an artificial intelligence policy.
Read the original →Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI firms want phones running 100 billion-parameter models by 2028.
Read the original →The agent reads media plan spreadsheets in any format and turns them into clean, governed data in seconds. Guideline, a global provider of ad intelligence and media plan management solutions, launched the AI Ingestion Agent in its Media Plan Management platform. The agent takes the spreadsheet media plans that agencies and brands already use.
Read the original →Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI Group announced an €800 million capital increase with institutional investors. The announcement was made today.
Read the original →Google is defending its $15B Visakhapatnam AI data hub as India scrutinizes water and power use. The scrutiny also covers Gemini-scale compute plans.
Read the original →RobCo announced a $1B valuation on 5 Oct 2026.
Read the original →Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pushed back on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's warning against AI "doomerism". Gates said every responsible AI leader, Altman included, is already telling the world that AI is "very concerning". Altman had recently said some imagined AI scenarios are "so dystopian that they sound like the plot of bad science fiction movies."
Read the original →A new movie lifts the lid on Sam Altman's OpenAI company.
Read the original →A year ago, few institutional investors were willing to deploy capital in the space computing power sector. Today investors can barely squeeze into high-quality project financing rounds in the sector.
Read the original →Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted that the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies will lead to numerous cybersecurity threats in 2027.
Read the original →Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce and SpaceX executives have started using the term 'super intelligence' after Trump ordered federal agencies to adopt it. The shift signals greater industry alignment with the administration.
Read the original →Muse Charm, introduced by Mark Zuckerberg in September, is a small device that fits in one hand. Meta AI agents in it send emails.
Read the original →A partnership between Elon Musk and Company A has prompted leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms to hoard high-performance GPUs. The collaboration has intensified competition for GPU supplies and driven up demand for core hardware.
Read the original →The piece says AI's next breakthrough will come not from ever-larger language models but from systems that can understand, predict and act in the physical world.
Read the original →Yann LeCun criticized AI slowdown advocates as anti-Enlightenment. He compared AI restrictions to the Ottoman printing ban and advocated open-source models.
Read the original →Developing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) requires "world AI" capable of understanding the physical world. Korea has an increasingly important role to play in this area.
Read the original →Global AI figures urged Korea to turn its factory know-how into a competitive edge. They pointed to shared base models and on-site learning as the means.
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