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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu warns of a grim outlook for the software industry and rising AI server costs. He says marketing budgets have been cut and pay increases frozen, though the firm works hard to avoid mass layoffs amid a challenging macroeconomic environment.
Read the original →ONS data show clerical roles are the most affected, at 38% of AI-using UK firms with at least 10 staff. Of those firms, 6% report lower overall headcount.
Read the original →Junior bank headcount is 4.7% below its October 2022 level, while senior roles keep growing. Revelio Labs data shows how AI is reshaping banking jobs.
Read the original →Broadcom is looking to make sure two of its biggest customers have the capital to buy its chips.
Read the original →Rumors that OpenAI’s “Navier-Stokes” solution stole the work of two mathematicians may have been overblown.
Read the original →Gemini 4 Argon is now available for paying subscribers and businesses.
Read the original →Following the announcement at the end of September, Gemini 4 Argon is starting to roll out to the Gemini app, Google Antigravity and more.
Read the original →Microsoft is to scale its Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027. The Maia 200 AI accelerator is being deployed across the US, Europe and Australia, with Maia 300 expected in 2027. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and AI at Microsoft, called the programme a “foundational element” of its AI infrastructure strategy.
Read the original →Workday announced that Sana, its agentic experience and orchestration engine, will work inside the AI tools and platforms employees already use. These include Claude, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot and Teams, and Slack. The move builds on self-service capabilities already available today.
Read the original →VS Code 1.140 ships HydraFusion, which routes coding tasks across AI models. It offers 3 workflow modes and covers 4 GitHub Copilot plan tiers.
Read the original →As of August 24, 2026, public pricing across major MaaS platforms, including DeepSeek, OpenRouter, DeepInfra and Together AI, combined with Artificial Analysis benchmark data, shows Bitdeer AI Model Studio as the lowest-priced provider for the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 API. On Bitdeer AI Model Studio, DeepSeek V4 Flash is priced at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Read the original →Despite artificial intelligence sparking doomsday fears around the world, Hollywood is slowly embracing the technology.
Read the original →The co-founder and CTO of Directeam discusses jobs disappearing and new professions emerging, and intelligent robots entering homes. The interview covers why the AI revolution is only beginning, what gives Israeli entrepreneurs their edge, and why human skills may become more important than ever.
Read the original →Concerns about jobs, geopolitics, climate and humanity’s future loom large.
Read the original →For years, the smartphone was the device that worried compliance teams, and employers learned to manage it with rules such as no phones on the production floor and no recording in meetings. That approach assumed the device could be seen. Smart glasses enabled with artificial intelligence have broken that assumption.
Read the original →U.S. state lawmakers who passed AI chatbot bills joined a recent Future of Privacy Forum webinar. They outlined how states have taken the lead on the subject and why it has been important to address it now despite its evolving nature.
Read the original →Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for law enforcement. It is already inside the tools officers use every day.
Read the original →Apple introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it.
Read the original →Workday said its latest tools will anticipate needs and take actions across finance and HR workflows, with customer-defined controls.
Read the original →Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said AI investors "have no clue what they are investing in." Elon Musk responded on Tuesday.
Read the original →Elon Musk wants to design his own chips for Tesla and SpaceX.
Read the original →Nvidia is looking to expand its footprint in AI data centers well beyond GPUs.
Read the original →Patient Capital Management, based in Baltimore, released its third-quarter 2026 investor letter for the Patient Opportunity Equity Strategy. The strategy gained 4.32% in the quarter compared with 2.30% for the S&P 500, and is up 14.93% year-to-date versus 12.75% for the index.
Read the original →NPR's Adrian Ma, co-host of The Indicator from Planet Money, hosts a virtual event with two economists: Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel Prize-winning professor at MIT, and Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist at OpenAI. Attendees are invited to share their thoughts and ask questions.
Read the original →Cathie Wood sold millions of Meta shares as Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Wonder, an agentic AI capable of browsing, buying and creating. The market cheered the launch.
Read the original →Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, shown at the BFI London Film Festival. Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov lead the film, which looks at the rise of OpenAI and the people behind it.
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