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Yoni Luksenberg says AI is changing how businesses operate and will eventually create new professions. Minute Media’s Asaf Peled predicts that the technology will stimulate economic activity and ease employment pressures over time.
Read the original →The chili sauce brand has come under fire after an official reportedly said the company cut 500 jobs to implement AI-powered pepper sorting.
Read the original →Anthropic warned the market there may not be enough insurance in the world to cover its AI risks. To less extreme degrees, it is an issue all companies face.
Read the original →The company said users may have used Claude for biological research that could pose risks.
Read the original →Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has released the most detailed account of its business yet as it prepares for its IPO. The episode covers the biggest surprises in its S-1 filing and what the numbers say about the AI bubble. Signal president Meredith Whittaker also discusses the threat facing private messaging and end-to-end encryption, citing government demands for backdoor access and AI agents that can see everything on devices.
Read the original →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will upend jobs, but young workers who embrace entrepreneurship could turn disruption into opportunity.
Read the original →A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences. This could change how consumers discover and use apps.
Read the original →Google is opening Android Studio to third-party AI agents through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature. The IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens.
Read the original →Google announced the Connected Apps Platform as a "unified way for more app developers to bring their capabilities directly into Gemini and Search."
Read the original →A study found that about 1 in 6 U.S. adults could comply with voice phishing calls made with AI-generated voices. Researchers from Harvard University, Meta and others ran experiments with 4,100 U.S. adults, comparing six AI voice models with real human voices across five scam scenarios. Emotional, relationship-based stories proved more persuasive than call-centre impersonation.
Read the original →The interface gives each bot a workstation and one-click task controls. It was discussed alongside separate open-source projects that monitor coding agents.
Read the original →China’s $1.5 million AI film earns just $181,000, while a $200 animated rival becomes a box-office hit.
Read the original →A popup on webOS-powered LG TVs has confirmed that Microsoft is ending support for Copilot on smart TVs this year.
Read the original →On October 28, 2026, Microsoft made the Microsoft Copilot harness available through Foundry. The harness is the multi-model orchestration layer that already powers Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, the Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
Read the original →A retrospective study of 292 joint replacement records found that DeepSeek-R1 with a guideline knowledge base significantly improved junior physicians' preoperative assessment accuracy.
Read the original →The authors argue that both threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. They say people have the power to stand against them.
Read the original →Alon Yariv says demand for AI computing remains strong even as financing becomes harder to secure, widening the gap between technology-driven neo-clouds and companies built around access to power and hardware. Yariv was speaking on a panel with Shachar Feinblit, a co-founder of VAST Data, Nate Rosen of Blackstone, and Moshe Raviv of MongoDB.
Read the original →The FIA announced a global partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the use of artificial intelligence and cloud computing across motor sport including Formula 1.
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Read the original →Organizations are increasingly using a range of delivery models for business services, including internal teams, Global Business Services (GBS), Global Capability Centers (GCCs), outsourcing providers, and managed services. As these approaches are combined with AI-enabled delivery, governance considerations include accountability, decision making, performance, and contractual obligations across an interconnected ecosystem of suppliers, internal teams, and AI systems.
Read the original →Waters took one-and-a-half years to develop its new AI tool. The company says the tool will cut manual drug-testing work performed by scientists by 95%.
Read the original →SAP is offering its developer community new enablement and engagement, with tens of thousands joining Devtoberfest ahead of SAP TechEd. It is also providing new reference architectures, tutorials and hands-on opportunities that attendees can try onsite at the event and at home.
Read the original →Home Depot's chief information officer told Business Insider the retailer needs AI agents to self-identify and verify they are acting on a customer's behalf.
Read the original →CNBC's Seema Mody joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the latest news on artificial intelligence and cyber risks.
Read the original →The $399 Microduck passed 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo. Christmas has slipped to April 2027.
Read the original →A blockbuster deal with Oracle and new numbers from Anthropic point to a TPU-shaped headache for Nvidia.
Read the original →There has been a vigorous debate over how to recognise the threshold when artificial general intelligence is reached.
Read the original →The article argues that compute adds a kind of relentlessness to our intellect but does not discover new horizons.
Read the original →The article describes building a 13-step Python test that prices every usable second of Kling, PixVerse, Veo and Seedance. It is aimed at finding the best AI video generators for a given brief.
Read the original →Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia asked which work is necessary at Oracle AI World. He said AI gives people more time to be human.
Read the original →Google has not announced Gemini 4 Carbon. Business Insider reports internal Jetski testing and one remark that it "feels like Opus 5.5".
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