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Fair Isaac Corp is eliminating approximately 15% of positions across the company. Pre-tax charges of $27.0 million are expected in Q4FY26. The plan aims to simplify the structure and integrate AI-driven product development, with restructuring scheduled to be substantially complete by the end of Q3FY27.
Read the original →Young graduates across Southeast Asia face growing difficulties entering the workforce as AI replaces routine tasks traditionally given to entry-level employees. This raises concerns about employment prospects and skills.
Read the original →Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor. It also provides guidance to detect and remediate it.
Read the original →The article looks at 10 big past IPOs for insight.
Read the original →The post collects the latest research, news and how-to guides about Google Cloud's AI infrastructure and orchestration platforms, including accelerators and GKE.
Read the original →The article lists 14 copy-paste Gemini AI photo prompts that turn one selfie into a cinematic, magazine, or polaroid portrait. It states that no editing skills are needed.
Read the original →Meta updated its Commercial Terms to allow AI training on business-linked sites. The change has alarmed news publishers ahead of the Oct. 30, 2026 effective date.
Read the original →Homeowners must agree not to join a lawsuit against the company over noise from its nearby power plant. According to a report by The Guardian, real estate agents have been visiting residents in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of xAI.
Read the original →The first stable Grok Bot build is available to download. Teams, Tasks, Texting and Discord additions are emerging in development.
Read the original →Sites using NoArchive or NoCache lose their Microsoft AI opt-out on March 1, 2027 unless they switch. At Google, the token will also cover Gemini grounding.
Read the original →Zhipu, DeepSeek, ModelBest, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, ByteDance and Xiaomi all show recursive self-improvement work. Each aims AI at the machinery around models, not the weights.
Read the original →AI systems' answers vary according to their origins and usage policies. The controversy follows two other recent disputes between Beijing and Spanish football.
Read the original →Chelsea Clinton, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and others discuss the implications of the technology for the next generation.
Read the original →The article describes the work on protein-folding as one AI-driven achievement that is unequivocally beneficial.
Read the original →The Massachusetts AI Coalition held a fireside chat at Clark University.
Read the original →Infisical raised a $40M Series B at a $600M valuation in 2026. The company develops an open-source secrets management platform.
Read the original →John Ternus is the third Apple CEO in 30 years. His primary challenge is to correct the company's faltering AI strategy to preserve its position as a big tech leader.
Read the original →DoorDash says some third-party AI agents have generated only several hundred orders. Swiggy offers external AI ordering in India. The commercial test is whether delegation improves on an app customers already know.
Read the original →SAP Databricks accelerates AI transformation with more performant data access from SAP Application Data Foundation. This uses the new Databricks capabilities Genie, Lakeflow, Agent Bricks, Unity Gateway and Lakebase. The new SAP Application Data Foundation eases access to on-premises and cloud SAP data in SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks.
Read the original →France combines model development, computing projects and public-service interfaces. Their strategic value depends on the access they provide.
Read the original →OpenAI's CEO is not a fan of the growing trend of running AI models locally on PC hardware, calling it a waste of DRAM. He says, "You want maximum utilization."
Read the original →Commentary from the Magnificent Seven this week focused on balancing continued AI investment against growing demands on cash flow, financing and infrastructure capacity.
Read the original →Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have embraced the term "super intelligence" to describe AI, following a lunch with Donald Trump that resulted in a new safety standards agreement. Executives from Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft still use the traditional AI terminology in their discussions.
Read the original →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI tokens are a "fake form of a business". Speaking with Stripe cofounder John Collison on the Cheeky Pint and Stripe podcast, he questioned the way AI companies charge customers for using their models.
Read the original →The article suggests costume ideas including a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
Read the original →Sundar Pichai said that, a few weeks after launching the prototype satellite, Google sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt and received its first complete response back on Earth, a haiku. He called it a "hello world" milestone for Project Suncatcher.
Read the original →Meta is making billions in profit. The item asks why its AI spending is worrying a credit agency.
Read the original →On October 30, the UK announced it was opening an investigation into Meta. The investigation concerns terms that could allow the corporation to collect content from publishers' websites to develop products, including AI, without guaranteeing the content providers' right to choose.
Read the original →Ramp Lead Economist Ara Kharazian said AI has been the fastest growing spend category Ramp has tracked over the last two years. On Fortune Daily with Ellie Austin, he discusses how AI usage continues to rise even as spending starts to slow.
Read the original →Bill Gurley argues that the AI industry is seeing a deceleration in pre-training gains. He describes this as a real shift from what OpenAI and Anthropic promised.
Read the original →Armenian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan met the heads of research institutes. They discussed reforms in science and the management of the sector.
Read the original →A man in Kentucky has successfully secured a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work.
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