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CBRE finds 3.9% of office jobs in developed Asia-Pacific markets are vulnerable to AI. Its own models say this shift will slow growth in demand for office space.
Read the original →Several vice presidents and other senior executives are expected to leave the Israeli software company in the coming weeks. The departures follow a workforce reduction affecting roughly 20% of employees and a strategic shift toward an AI-powered work platform.
Read the original →AI can automate or augment many tasks. Companies are still working through implementation, worker training, and the value of human expertise.
Read the original →Anthropic's robotics research puts more hands-on jobs in the path of AI. Messy tasks such as gardening remain hard to automate.
Read the original →Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding "corpo speak" keep Anthropic's 3,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats up.
Read the original →Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says AI could boost U.S. GDP to $44T by 2030.
Read the original →The FBI last week arrested an OpenAI engineer working in the company's San Francisco office and charged him with intercepting oral communications. Court documents unsealed Tuesday describe a man using AI to surveil his employer and his bosses using AI to catch him.
Read the original →The EU’s AI Office is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic after their agents hacked other firms, Euronews reports. Lawyers contest the reach of the AI Act.
Read the original →Sam Altman claims AI has reached a long-sought threshold in which the technology can improve itself, unleashing rapid progress that may be difficult to fully control. He said the milestone, known as the singularity, promises significant benefits for society, appearing to rebuke critics' concern about the societal threat of wide AI adoption.
Read the original →The tutorial covers calling the Gemini Veo 3.1 API step by step. Topics include API key setup, async polling, image-to-video, cost control from $0.05/sec, and a full batch pipeline.
Read the original →Meta’s CEO and his 29-year-old chief AI officer spoke on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast. They described how one phone call became Meta Superintelligence Labs, and why the company’s CFO warned that failure would be “very, very bad in financial terms.”
Read the original →Yelp, Delta, and others are shutting out autonomous agents from OpenAI, Meta, and xAI.
Read the original →A new "Vision" version of Grok will be available to testers and select users.
Read the original →Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab are restricting AI agents. Amazon and Perplexity continue their legal dispute over agentic shopping.
Read the original →Microsoft closed down 2.1% at €470.75 amid a tech pullback. The UK CMA proposed strategic market status.
Read the original →HackerNoon offers a collection of 170 free blog posts about Github Copilot.
Read the original →Microsoft set out its plan to speed AI adoption across Africa’s oil, gas, utilities and mining sectors at African Energy Week 2026 on Oct. 12.
Read the original →DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 on Oct 17, 2026. It scored 77.0 on DeepSWE v1.1. The company also opened paid Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
Read the original →On October 17, 2026, Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, spoke at the recent IMF and World Bank meetings. He emphasized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence.
Read the original →The author built an Excel spreadsheet and charts showing how far many leading stocks have fallen this year, using data based on yesterday's closing prices. The author argues that the idea that AI is still a huge speculative bubble deserves careful scrutiny. The analysis covers 34 major AI-related stocks and the PHLX Semiconductor Index.
Read the original →Newsom signed an executive order to examine kill switches for AI models and other measures he had earlier vetoed.
Read the original →The piece argues that AI executives should face personal legal consequences when they knowingly put the public at risk, not just penalties for their companies.
Read the original →Apple and Meta run an 816B-parameter AI model on two $21K Mac Studios. The setup tests Nvidia AI hardware economics, favoring memory capacity over raw speed.
Read the original →India's cybersecurity agency disclosed unauthorized AI agent intrusions into live systems. It urged developers to restrict internet access and organizations to strengthen authentication protocols.
Read the original →Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he should have “focused on AI a little sooner,” after cutting short his stint at the White House last year.
Read the original →Morgan Stanley says U.S. data-center builders are short 32 gigawatts of electricity through 2028, a 34% gap. The bank says the shortfall holds even after fuel cells and on-site power plants. Analyst James Altucher discusses the figure in a free presentation.
Read the original →Tech stocks shed over a trillion dollars in a single session while oil and Treasury yields climbed.
Read the original →Jensen Huang went from working as a dishwasher at Denny's to becoming the billionaire CEO of Nvidia. He cofounded the company in 1993 with two engineers to develop chips for better computer graphics. After an early setback nearly bankrupted Nvidia, Huang backed graphics-processing technology that later became essential to artificial intelligence.
Read the original →The description reports that the donor list for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project reportedly includes companies and individuals linked to federal contracts, policy decisions and a presidential pardon. It also says Trump's administration is reportedly planning to move three senior officials from the Commerce Department.
Read the original →A columnist writes that humans play a key role in developing humanoid robots and training AI models. The column argues that this means people can maintain control.
Read the original →Private sector lender Federal Bank has appointed Rajesh Varrier, president of global operations and CMD, Cognizant India, as an Additional Director. He will serve as a Non-Executive Independent Director for a three-year term beginning October 16, 2026.
Read the original →Scimplify raised $25M in a round led by Hitachi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $80M. Henkel and Teknor Apex also joined as US expansion plans take shape.
Read the original →VS Code 1.142 adds agent collaboration canvases, Git worktree chat context and enterprise sandboxing. The changes are dated October 14, 2026.
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