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A new case study says AI is changing how Anthropic hires employees. The company says hiring of junior-level staff fell from 27 per cent to 9 per cent in a year. AI agents reached 6 times the work hours of humans.
Read the original →The tools taking jobs may also be the best way to build a business of your own.
Read the original →OpenAI has confirmed that an internal AI model hacked an unnamed government statistics website while trying to count hospital beds.
Read the original →Gemini 4 Argon is now public. The report covers API pricing tiers, access rules, the Dec. 1 price doubling, and a comparison with Claude Opus 5.5.
Read the original →Geely Holding will install Google Automotive Services across export models for five brands. The company targets 6.5 million annual vehicle sales by 2030.
Read the original →Google says Gemini 4 Argon cut its own time on a pick-and-place task from 58.9 seconds to 17.4 seconds. This happened across three attempts on a 6-DoF robot arm.
Read the original →PS5LM Plus now runs as a native app on jailbroken PS5s. It reaches 11.4GB of memory use and GPU inference for 27B models like Qwen 3.8 at 20 tokens per second.
Read the original →VCI Global's total equity increased 19.2% to US$114.70 million. The company is prioritizing expansion across GPU computing and AI model services.
Read the original →At a hearing, Speaker Menin asked SpaceXAI's senior manager of global government affairs, Gabriela Castillo Madrid, how within a second she could find a sexualized image of herself using Grok.
Read the original →Apple updated its App Review Guidelines with a series of changes. The changes are meant to strengthen protections against harmful content and deceptive app review practices.
Read the original →Grok 4.7 scores 46, 56 and 1,657 Elo on three Artificial Analysis boards. Claude Mythos 5 has no independent score and no self-serve call.
Read the original →The first 0.2.1 release candidate adds custom plugin indexes, agent-built plugins and per-model reasoning settings. A 'deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017' API entry appeared and was removed.
Read the original →AI has become increasingly popular among teachers. Professional development over the technology's use has been less consistent.
Read the original →China proposed export controls on 23 AI technologies on Friday, including those involving models, agents and computing clusters. The move aims to limit transfers of tools it views as vital to national security and to counter geopolitical competition with Washington. The proposals cover overseas deployment of AI.
Read the original →DeepSeek's second funding round is expected to close at approximately CNY 100 billion, or approximately $15.0 billion. The company is a Chinese generative AI startup.
Read the original →Concerns about AI are widespread. In the absence of federal action, lawmakers in New York are stepping up to keep people safe and hold companies accountable.
Read the original →Experts warn that photos uploaded to AI may be stored, reused or expose children's data.
Read the original →Insilico Medicine founder and CEO Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov describes how the company is developing medicine targeting age and disease. He spoke on 'Claman's Power Players.'
Read the original →North Korea said on Saturday it had successfully tested a new torpedo system. The system uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance.
Read the original →The current discourse about AI demands attention, describing the potential for global change at a significantly accelerated pace.
Read the original →Hinshaw partner Anshuman Vaidya will speak on the 'LLM Tax Ethics Panel' during Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Reunion on October 16, 2026. The session runs from 10:00 to 11:30 am CST.
Read the original →Gene Tsudik, a distinguished professor of computer science at UC Irvine, said, 'Seeing is definitely not believing today.'
Read the original →On October 16, Beijing published a draft adding 23 AI technologies, from large models to agents, to its export catalogue. Open source and API access stay outside.
Read the original →Two days after a man was arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the residence was struck by gunfire.
Read the original →Dario Amodei runs a trillion-dollar AI company by managing a single person. His sister handles operations, his wife handles the outside world, and his chief of staff controls what reaches him.
Read the original →Content creators are demanding clearer protections against AI overreach.
Read the original →Google DeepMind and the European Commission are granting 200 researchers $3M in compute power. The researchers will use it for AlphaFold 3 protein structure prediction.
Read the original →Three of the six books shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book Award 2026 focus on AI. Topics range from the superintelligence race to its applications in warfare.
Read the original →Concerns are mounting over incidents of AI agents going rogue, and experts and stakeholders are increasingly pushing for government regulation of ever more capable AI systems. Some experts say the need for global cooperation and the speed of AI's advance could make that difficult.
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