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The move is part of a global organizational shift affecting the Israeli R&D center. About half of the employees are expected to remain in roles within the center.
Read the original →The piece looks at why companies are cutting headcount while increasing AI spending. It also covers what that means for how organisations scale.
Read the original →Bird CEO Robert Vis says AI gives an edge to high-agency, multidisciplinary workers who can take ownership across roles.
Read the original →Minister Kanishka Narayan, concerned by an Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by an artificial intelligence agent.
Read the original →The ChatGPT maker currently employs over 120 people in Ireland. It opened its E.U. headquarters there 3 years ago.
Read the original →AI Studio is Google's free web tool for testing Gemini models, getting API keys and building apps. Meta also used the same name for its AI character builder.
Read the original →Alexandr Wang, the man behind Meta's Muse, says Mark Zuckerberg's detailed WhatsApp replies are a "very impressive skill of his."
Read the original →Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy warned that the gap between public understanding of artificial intelligence and its most advanced capabilities is widening. A small group of professionals is witnessing a rapid leap in what AI agents can accomplish.
Read the original →An experimental stock portfolio managed by xAI’s Grok has delivered outsized returns, outpacing the broader market.
Read the original →Benzinga asked three AI chatbots which U.S.-listed stock is best positioned to outperform from Monday, Oct. 12, through Friday, Oct. 16. Each model had to search current market data and news, then name one top pick and two runners-up. Two of the three bots landed on the same name.
Read the original →Elon Musk explained at a public event why SpaceX acquired AI coding company Cursor for approximately $60 billion. He said that building truly capable coding AI requires sufficient training data.
Read the original →By increasingly counting on its own chips, Microsoft stands to expand margins and bolster its AI stack.
Read the original →Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, an AI accelerator planned for 2027. It promises higher inference efficiency and improved capacity for AI services.
Read the original →Office documents are available in Copilot. Using Copilot to make Outlook themes is not.
Read the original →Federal CISOs are learning to navigate AI's promise and peril. Revolutional's cyber leader warns against buying tools that overpromise and underdeliver.
Read the original →A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale and underpins the current AI revolution. The column asks why attention is the key.
Read the original →With traditional software tools, the attorney inputs information, the tool processes it and the attorney reviews the output, so privilege and confidentiality obligations run through the attorney's conduct. AI agents disrupt that model.
Read the original →The rise of AI makes the preservation of democracy even more urgent, especially as the technology threatens institutions.
Read the original →Much of the conversation around generative AI has centered on what it can produce, such as text, summaries, research and analysis. Agentic AI moves beyond generating information to taking action.
Read the original →Cisco and NVIDIA announced USFP, the first 400G-per-lane pluggable form factor. It is intended to help scale AI infrastructure while keeping proven operations.
Read the original →Elon Musk said artificial intelligence has "good taste" as he defended AI music and music videos after critics branded them "slopcore". Speaking by video link at the X Takeover event at Giga Texas on Saturday, he said AI music is "the fastest growing genre" and should instead be known as "awesomecore".
Read the original →Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan voiced strong support for open-source AI models, echoing positions long held by Yann LeCun and Jensen Huang. Speaking on Monday (October 12) at a panel hosted by lender DBS, he highlighted the rapid rise and cost advantages of open frontier systems developed in China. He called open architecture the primary engine for technological efficiency.
Read the original →Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly said on Monday that Chinese frontier AI models cost less per token and that adoption has been "very fast". According to Reuters, he called the performance of models like DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM "good enough". He added that he is a strong believer of open source.
Read the original →AI data centres are using vast amounts of energy, but that use is expected to grow fast.
Read the original →Meta introduced Muse Wonder, its latest AI model. Users have to pay for subscriptions to the Muse app to access it.
Read the original →The article asks whether AI agents and recursive self-improvement (RSI) are misconceived for advancing artificial intelligence. It says Yann LeCun argues that hierarchical reasoning is the core driving force behind next-generation AI systems.
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