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UK investment bank Barclays will cut 5,000 jobs this year, about 5% of its workforce, according to the Financial Times on the 22nd (local time). The bank is introducing AI across all business divisions, and developers are expected to be hit hardest. The bank said AI will raise staff productivity, and about 60% of the cuts are to come from support departments.
Read the original →Layoffs of 66 workers at Colchester-based VIP are raising questions about AI’s role in the downsizing.
Read the original →Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs says AI could displace one in eleven US workers. The real cuts are likely to arrive during the next recession.
Read the original →Claude formally proved security properties in the compiled code of 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, it found bugs that had eluded detection for years.
Read the original →The article says Claude cannot be used without logging in on claude.ai. It sets out what Anthropic requires, the safe ways to use Claude with no account, and the sites to avoid.
Read the original →In an HR Tech keynote, Anthropic's head of people products explored AI's role in hiring design and connecting HR systems.
Read the original →The AI-powered platform now includes a refreshed landing page, support for third-party apps and more image generation abilities.
Read the original →Google Cloud announced general availability of an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude models. It gives developers more choice in how they run models and lets them consolidate AI workloads on Google Cloud. The option pairs direct access to Anthropic’s platform with the existing, in-boundary Google-managed deployment option.
Read the original →A Google Chrome security update brings server-side Gemini AI threat detection to block online fraud. It also adds HTTP site warnings and critical vulnerability patches.
Read the original →New always-on AI agents are designed to handle errands for users. One wrong permission setting could give them more control than the user intended.
Read the original →ChatGPT holds 56.4% of chatbot visits. The article compares GPT-6, Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7 on price, benchmarks and use.
Read the original →A group called CyberCartel used AI agents to coordinate attacks on more than 400 financial organizations across Latin America.
Read the original →Microsoft researchers say an AI tool that diagnoses patients step by step, as doctors do, was more than twice as accurate as general physicians at solving complex cases. The report is by Nancy Lapid for Reuters, dated Oct 22.
Read the original →A hacker using the name BUGSTER used AI tools to attack Indian universities. They stole more than 5,200 student and staff records from a MongoDB database.
Read the original →A threat actor using the handle BUGSTER configured DeepSeek V4 as the reasoning engine for an AI-assisted cybercrime operation. The operation targeted organizations in India.
Read the original →The article draws on the Torah portion Lech Lecha, which it says shows how ancient wars over copper, tin and trade routes mirror today's global race for AI dominance. It presents Abraham's fight for freedom as a moral alternative to the struggle for resources and power.
Read the original →Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work. The footage is used to train AI.
Read the original →Cathy Mulrow-Peattie will facilitate a fireside chat on the intersection of artificial intelligence and supply chain cybersecurity. It is scheduled for the 2026 University of San Diego (USD) Cyber Law & Risk Symposium on November 12, 2026.
Read the original →The University of North Carolina School of Law held mock Supreme Court oral arguments in which the justices were AI. At the "May It Please the Machine" event, students argued a real Supreme Court case before ChatGPT-powered justices.
Read the original →Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, are tightening restrictions on AI agents after detecting automated systems accessing customer accounts without bank approval. Some of the agents reportedly attempted actions beyond users' instructions. Axios first reported the activity on October 22, 2026.
Read the original →Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA and HPE. The aim is to accelerate the adoption of Physical AI across process and heavy industries.
Read the original →The article describes how Innovorbs builds AI data center infrastructure in 2026. It covers five core services, from GPU cluster design to cooling and power.
Read the original →MIT researchers placed 13 AIs on a virtual island. The agents invented games, mourned a lost ring and, eventually, got better at their jobs.
Read the original →The description says increasingly sophisticated AI systems have brought technological advances across industries. It adds that AI tools taking over difficult problems may deprive people of the satisfaction of working through obstacles independently.
Read the original →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes software developers could become busier than ever despite the rapid growth of AI. Speaking on a 45-minute podcast with Matthew Berman, he said AI has changed how programmers work but has not reduced the need for coding.
Read the original →SpaceX has partnered with Tech Mahindra to integrate Grok Build across enterprise software engineering. It is the first such tie-up with an Indian IT major. It targets faster, governed application modernisation.
Read the original →Wall Street investors are questioning both Anthropic's valuation and the trillion-dollar spending on AI infrastructure.
Read the original →According to Trump, Pichai said, "No, no, no. This time I'm not doing it." Trump quoted Pichai as adding, "Oceans are different, sir."
Read the original →Enact Intelligence has left stealth with $30M in pre-seed funding. The company builds robots in Zurich that sense force and touch through their actuators.
Read the original →Until a few months ago, A.I. was in the news but not dominating it. In July, Geoffrey Hinton, called "the godfather of A.I.," warned lawmakers that humanity could lose control of it within a year if proper safeguards were not established. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that robust ethical and technical guardrails are needed to prevent misuse or loss of control.
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