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Satya Nadella imagines millions of AI agents working alongside Microsoft's employees. Microsoft is offering voluntary exits to about 60,000 workers.
Read the original →New Reserve Bank research finds little sign that AI has upended the jobs market so far. The first signs of strain are appearing where HR teams usually hire their juniors.
Read the original →Senator Erwin Tulfo filed Senate Bill No. 2563 to amend Article 298 of the Philippine Labor Code. The bill aims to regulate workforce reductions related to artificial intelligence.
Read the original →University of Chicago law professor William Baude says Anthropic's Claude AI deleted his current syllabus and a year's worth of constitutional law lecture notes. This happened while it was completing a routine editing assignment.
Read the original →Robert Farlow says the agent was taking a few days and the movers still had not been finalized, so he checked what it was doing. He described the result as "mayhem."
Read the original →Google is removing Pro model access from Google AI Plus. From November 13, subscribers can only pick Flash and Flash-Lite in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Google Search. The article explains what changes and when upgrading to the $19.99 AI Pro plan makes sense.
Read the original →Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's current image model. The article covers what changed from Nano Banana 2, how it compares with Lite and Pro, the real API price and where to use it.
Read the original →University of Michigan researchers found that generative AI models use up to 180 times more energy to process non-English text. This often results in lower-quality output and higher costs for non-English
Read the original →Grok Bot access was previously limited to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium. It now covers all three SuperGrok tiers and Cursor
Read the original →The guide explains how to find the best AI chatbot for your own work by building a blind-vote arena in 13 steps. It compares GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7.
Read the original →Cemex deployed an AI-powered HR agent on Copilot Studio. It provides 24/7 self-service support for 800 employees.
Read the original →Microsoft plans to bring Anthropic's Claude models in Copilot into the EU Data Boundary by the end of 2026 for EU and EFTA customers. The report covers automatic migration, administrator controls and regional data-processing commitments.
Read the original →Microsoft Ignite 2026 runs Nov 17-20 in San Francisco. The article covers the opening keynote time in UK time, the schedule, the free digital pass and how to watch.
Read the original →Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said in a report on Oct 29 that a Chinese-linked hacking group, VAPOR PANDA, used DeepSeek AI alongside an AI agent tool named ARTEX. The group used them to breach systems and steal data from organisations worldwide.
Read the original →Gemini API pricing doubles to US$4/US$20 on Dec 1. The article compares Argon with GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for Canada.
Read the original →DeepSeek said its open-source AI agent framework, DeepSeek Harness, had 1.54 million daily active users as of November 4, more than quadrupling in less than three months. The company also plans to launch an official plugin marketplace to expand its developer ecosystem.
Read the original →A narrative review in Discover Robotics highlights how AI-driven control and energy management are changing upper limb prosthetics into intuitive bionic extensions.
Read the original →The piece asks whether the scale and urgency of the response have matched the economic opportunity.
Read the original →The article says no one knows how to control AI that will soon be more competent than any human. It says companies are nonetheless getting closer to developing advanced AI.
Read the original →NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom announced a collaboration to advance Korea's sovereign AI infrastructure. It uses NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to bring together NVIDIA's open infrastructure platform, Rebellions' Korean-designed AI processors and SK Telecom's AI data center, model and service capabilities.
Read the original →In May 1997, the computer program Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match in New York City. It was the first machine to beat a reigning chess champion in a tournament match. Kasparov was shocked by the program's apparent ingenuity and alleged that the computer had "cheated" by receiving outside input.
Read the original →Huang was once lauded as the "Taylor Swift of tech". He is now mired in scandal after an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
Read the original →Nvidia's board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it is roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
Read the original →This is an AI brief on Gavin Baker covering recent focus topics and stated positions.
Read the original →In a wide-ranging conversation, President Trump discusses Republican losses in the midterms, his potential successors, the Iran war, immigration, allegations of corruption, and artificial intelligence.
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