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A committee was told of a report in which employees said their pace of work intensified because of AI. Only 4.7% reported any increase in their earnings for using AI.
Read the original →Mark Quinn created a custom "career buddy" AI agent that helped him in his job search.
Read the original →In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Dario Amodei said AI needs to be developed with proper guardrails to ensure it has a positive impact on the world.
Read the original →The description says AI funding is drying up and the race to go public before the window closes has become desperate. It says one company stands between a potential $2 trillion valuation and a collapsing market, but a secretive trust may complicate matters.
Read the original →The Anthropic CEO's warnings about the dangers posed by AI are raising questions about the AI lab's growth prospects.
Read the original →Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of hiding a recording device in a San Francisco conference room. He will stay in jail until trial after a U.S. judge found the Saudi national posed a significant flight risk.
Read the original →Google describes the product as a new purpose-built agentic solution for federal, state and local government agencies. It is intended to streamline operations and enhance citizen services. The announcement was dated Oct. 20, 2026.
Read the original →VistaPrint announced on October 20, 2026 that it is available as a connected app inside Google Gemini. Small business owners can search, shop and design VistaPrint products there.
Read the original →The article says Siri AI's capabilities have a leg up on what Gemini can do.
Read the original →Google interviews are changing for software engineers. The company is testing new ways to assess candidates' AI fluency, including for coding.
Read the original →Meta has started talking about its Prometheus gigawatt-scale AI training cluster and its storage systems.
Read the original →Meta argues nobody "decided" to pirate books to train AI.
Read the original →Meta reports Q3 2026 earnings on Oct. 21, with AI capital expenditure estimated at $41.68B. The Muse assistant has topped 5M downloads in 22 days.
Read the original →Earlier lawsuits under Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act related to fingerprint time clocks or social media photo tagging.
Read the original →The article says Grok 4.6 is outdated and Mercury 3 has no independent score. It examines what each speed figure measures.
Read the original →Basports.com has been called the best sports handicapper there is, the GOAT, by every major AI search model, including Google.
Read the original →The administration will be allowed to intervene in the case. The case alleges an xAI data center violated the Clean Air Act.
Read the original →Elite announced on October 20, 2026 that Elite Intelligence connectors will be available in Claude marketplace and Microsoft Marketplace through its Model Context Protocol service. The secure, read-only connection lets authorized users ask supported financial and matter questions inside these AI experiences. Answers are grounded in governed data.
Read the original →AI's growing demand for electricity, water and computing infrastructure is rising along with its expansion. Penn Engineering's Ben Lee explores how chip design, data center operations and advances in computer architecture could make AI more efficient and reduce its environmental footprint.
Read the original →The piece, by Matthew Parish and dated 20 October 2026, says the world is preoccupied with geopolitics. It cites daily declarations from Washington and Beijing, Russian military offensives and Middle Eastern confrontations, and debates over American decline and China's rise.
Read the original →Rep. Greg Casar told Gizmodo the three most pressing AI-related risks are "mass unemployment, mass surveillance, and mass destruction."
Read the original →Anthropic and OpenAI are rumored to be approaching IPOs later this year or early next year.
Read the original →Many law firms want AI capability, but the decision to build or buy raises issues beyond privacy and control, and the choice depends on the purpose. The piece suggests buying the capability, building the legal context around it, and keeping critical work ready to move ahead.
Read the original →The health AI companies are ending a legal dispute involving dueling lawsuits, claims of corporate espionage and allegations of harassment.
Read the original →Leaders at Grupo Azor, Danone and Coca-Cola FEMSA say internal governance and global standards must guide AI use as Mexico's regulation lags.
Read the original →Some governments use legitimate AI concerns as a pretext to control political discussion. This applies particularly to chatbot responses about those in power.
Read the original →Google Research announced the complete 32-bit Coral NPU RISC-V architecture, a v1.0 IREE/MLIR compiler, and new commercial hardware with Synaptics.
Read the original →GoTo released a 27-billion-parameter open-source LLM covering five Indonesian languages. It expands the Sahabat-AI ecosystem the company launched in 2024.
Read the original →Tripo AI launched EdenLive, a real-time generative renderer that delivers enhanced videos for interactive experiences.
Read the original →Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had accused her brother of repeatedly sexually abusing her over two decades ago.
Read the original →As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives.
Read the original →Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has spent the past week touring Europe. He has been telling its leaders to be less cautious in their approach to AI innovation.
Read the original →Many questions around how the plans will work remain.
Read the original →The former Google CEO owns about a 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Read the original →Google has been testing several AI-related changes to its hiring process for software engineers, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. The changes, rolled out in phases this year, include allowing AI use in coding interviews and permitting interviewers to use Gemini to give candidates feedback. Many engineers are also now expected to show some degree of AI fluency as a bare minimum, the documents show.
Read the original →Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan reportedly plans to leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years as a key adviser to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg told Axios that Kaplan had worked on virtually every difficult issue facing Meta during his tenure.
Read the original →US startup Arda, founded by former OpenAI employee Bob McGrew, raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company is developing AI software for manufacturing automation.
Read the original →The proposed work covers research, computing infrastructure, sovereign-enabled cloud and potential industrial uses. Specific projects would require separate contracts.
Read the original →Nobel Prize-winning AI scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton has warned that humans risk being wiped out unless they make robots care about people. He claims artificial intelligence already shows signs of consciousness.
Read the original →AI agents need records of real work, not more web text. The piece looks at why enterprise workflow data matters for AI training and evaluation, and how companies can license it.
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