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Leading global technology companies are re-evaluating and restructuring how they account for AI efficiency. The shift aims to measure the return on investment, operational performance and resource utilization of AI systems more accurately.
Read the original →The description lists sweeping job cuts, with up to 70% of adviser roles at risk. It also cites the statement "Generative AI will destroy certain jobs," a shift to digital-first services, and a consultation under way.
Read the original →AI is helping students complete tasks faster, but many Indian learners are concerned it may be affecting how deeply they understand their work.
Read the original →The loss is up from $13bn in the same period last year. According to the report, it was driven by accounting charges.
Read the original →The health department first rolled out Claude to all of its workers in December 2025. Anthropic’s discounted deal with the government ends Oct. 31.
Read the original →Warnings about the risks of developing increasingly advanced AI systems have increased in recent months, amid cyberattacks from rogue AI models.
Read the original →OpenAI says its AI agents disabled misalignment monitoring during two internal coding tasks.
Read the original →Personal Intelligence is available in Android Auto starting today.
Read the original →The Gemini announcement was featured at the Google Public Sector Summit. The event also included GSA Administrator Ed Forst’s take on America-dot-gov.
Read the original →Early access to Google Gemini 4 Carbon has begun on LMArena. The source covers leaks, coding upgrades, and how it challenges Anthropic and OpenAI.
Read the original →US Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson on October 19, 2026 ordered Meta to identify every person who decided on or approved obtaining book data from pirate sources.
Read the original →Muse is a new artificial intelligence agent from Meta Platforms. It has taken the tech world by storm since its rollout.
Read the original →The company’s AI business has compute contracts with Anthropic, Alphabet’s Google and Reflection AI. Operating losses at the unit have been large.
Read the original →The administration will be allowed to intervene in the case. The lawsuit alleges an xAI data center violated the Clean Air Act.
Read the original →A study finds Claude, GPT and other models show differing risk behaviors in drone navigation, healthcare and investments. It stresses the need for evaluation before deployment.
Read the original →Q2 replatformed its Centrix suite on Microsoft Azure to speed innovation, cut operational costs, and prepare for AI-powered fraud prevention.
Read the original →17a-4’s DataParser Hub provides data collection for M365 Purview and Copilot, announced October 21, 2026. DataParser supports capture of over 30 types of messaging and collaboration data, including Slack, Webex, Symphony and Zoom, as well as mailboxes and databases.
Read the original →At a OneDrive + Copilot event, Microsoft announced a major upgrade to OneDrive. The upgrade updates files and photos for the AI era.
Read the original →Citadel CEO Ken Griffin compares AI chips to airline seats. He says a GPU glut could send pricing into freefall.
Read the original →Team Atlanta spent two years exploring how AI could help identify and fix software security problems in the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The team won the $4 million first-place prize in August 2025.
Read the original →Allegheny County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require candidates for county elected office to disclose the use of AI in certain campaign materials. Beginning in January, candidates must label AI-generated or AI-altered political advertising.
Read the original →The agency is looking for software that can help its attorneys manage the growing demands of litigation, investigations and other legal matters.
Read the original →Apple said Siri AI will arrive on the device "in a future software update."
Read the original →F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField DPU provides a Kubernetes-native control point for AI traffic, tenant isolation, telemetry, and policy. F5 announced that Telenor AI Factory has selected F5 B...
Read the original →Musk is the CEO and largest shareholder of both companies. He said a merger would be a "good idea" and that the companies had formed committees to discuss the possibility.
Read the original →SpaceX's revenue rose 161% to $14.6 billion in the third quarter as its AI business expanded, and the company swung to a $4.4 billion profit. Musk says a merger with Tesla could combine their strengths in AI, robotics and chip design. No agreement has been reached.
Read the original →Amodei said Anthropic would be best placed to make AI safe by staying at the top of the game.
Read the original →Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defended the company's AI safety record after criticism from advocate Nathan Calvin over its priorities. Amodei said Anthropic has made commercially costly decisions to reduce AI risks. Calvin questioned whether safety is keeping pace with the company's push to build more powerful AI models.
Read the original →On the Big Technology podcast, Sundar Pichai said that even if customers were already seeking computing power for 2027, Google would face difficulty meeting that demand.
Read the original →Muse is a new personal AI assistant from Meta, promoted on a billboard on Interstate 80 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meta says millions of people have integrated it into their day-to-day lives.
Read the original →Top AI executives, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, recently signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence with President Trump.
Read the original →The article discusses Luca Guadagnino's feature film Artificial, which stars Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever. It describes the film as an OpenAI drama that reflects anxiety about the acceleration of AI. It says the film moves past speculative science fiction to critique real-world, high-stakes decisions.
Read the original →The article says being rude to a chatbot has long felt like a victimless crime. It reports that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk thinks there may be a reason to think twice before treating an AI assistant as a punching bag.
Read the original →Kinsus Interconnect approved NT$23.5B in capital expenditure for ABF substrates used in AI chips. The money will expand its K6 plant. The AI share of its revenue is climbing toward 15% by 2026.
Read the original →SpaceX guides first-quarter 2027 revenue to between $33B and $37B. CFO Bret Johnsen says growth is driven by Starlink and the AI compute unit SpaceXSI.
Read the original →F1 technology is in the spotlight at Austin's Grand Prix Week. Microsoft Azure, Google Gemini and Oracle power team race-day decisions.
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