Vodafone Germany cuts 2,300 jobs over two years as AI use expands
Customer service is to merge with consumer and business sales as AI creates and steers ad campaigns. Talks with staff start early 2027.
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Customer service is to merge with consumer and business sales as AI creates and steers ad campaigns. Talks with staff start early 2027.
Read the original →With more than 200,000 jobs cut in the tech industry in 2026, a larger concern has emerged about the effect spreading to retail and finance.
Read the original →Anthropic has announced Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2.
Read the original →AI makes it easy to rehearse a job interview as many times as needed, with feedback after every answer.
Read the original →"Artificial" star Andrew Garfield recalls a time when he greatly admired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Read the original →These generative AI companies are developing everything from chatbots and chips to coding tools and enterprise AI applications.
Read the original →AI infrastructure startup Fireworks has disclosed a new security breach. Attackers accessed its development machines after breaching a third-party cloud provider.
Read the original →The article compares 2026 AI pricing across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Qwen and others. It covers every subscription tier and API rate.
Read the original →Dogecoin has formed a death cross near $0.07. The article covers where Grok sees DOGE ending 2026 and what it needs to rise above $0.10.
Read the original →Searches about Grok AI have grown 200%, which the description attributes to Elon Musk.
Read the original →The piece is a technical overview of Microsoft Nuance DAX Copilot (Dragon Copilot). It covers ambient clinical documentation, Epic Haiku and SmartSection workflows, and HIPAA.
Read the original →Microsoft co-signs a new global joint declaration on AI safety and security aligned with the Paris Call framework. The group also launches an AI automation initiative with Northern Trust, introducing enterprise AI agents into the bank.
Read the original →An AI-driven resource-acquisition agent hunts for exposed servers and steals OpenAI and DeepSeek API keys. It uses the free compute to power academic fraud.
Read the original →A cross-sectional study evaluated five large language models for heart failure self-management education. Clinicians rated DeepSeek highest for clinical quality.
Read the original →The article compares Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Mistral Large 4 on memory, price and break-even volume for self-hosting versus API use.
Read the original →The cost and time for building data centers just increased after a blue tsunami swept Democrats into positions that had been Republican strongholds.
Read the original →In mocking the US, Chinese netizens are also holding up a mirror to their own country. Making the US the butt of their jokes gives some Chinese an outlet to poke fun at familiar political excesses without directly challenging their own authorities.
Read the original →EJIL's first Policy on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence was introduced in July 2026, with an editorial comment by Sarah Nouwen and Michael Waibel.
Read the original →In his national agenda for the Democratic Congress, Gov. JB Pritzker called for a federal framework on AI.
Read the original →The government is also considering criminal law changes to deal with serious misconduct by any of these companies.
Read the original →GenAI Task Force boss Capt. Ryan Hetrick said the public never heard about a bomb threat on June 18, and that the agent was a large part of the response.
Read the original →At Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon, taking place November 9–12, Altegio will announce the launch of an open platform. The release is dated Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 10, 2026.
Read the original →Zendesk began rolling out its employee-service AI agents on November 3. The agents bring automated support into its help centre, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Read the original →Otter AI added support for 27 languages. It also revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
Read the original →A developer created a script that emails Sam Altman about unused RAM every day. It mocks the OpenAI CEO's controversial comments about memory.
Read the original →The joke Ram-Altman program automatically messages Sam Altman about a Linux computer's unused memory. One example message reads: 'Please don't be alarmed, but there is 8.6 GiB of RAM on my desk.'
Read the original →The author apologizes to their family and colleagues, saying they were unfaithful to their wife and that their actions hurt her and their children. They say there is no excuse for what they did.
Read the original →Mark Zuckerberg announced on X that Meta's Muse Ember, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder are now accessible via Google Cloud's Model Garden managed APIs. The models are multimodal with 1M token context windows. Ember is Meta's smallest and cheapest option, delivering intelligence comparable to models like Claude Haiku at roughly one-third the per-task cost for sub-agent and repetitive work.
Read the original →Meta has launched its latest AI model, Muse Ember. According to Mark Zuckerberg, it is a small model but more capable than rivals in its class.
Read the original →Meta is expanding its AI age-estimation technology on Instagram globally. It will place millions more teens in Teen Account protections.
Read the original →Randall Balestriero, Kerda Varaku and Yann LeCun describe a method that lets world models infer hidden forces from prediction errors. The approach is meant to let them plan better actions without new training data.
Read the original →Swiss venture firm Redalpine has closed its oversubscribed eighth early-stage fund at $250 million. Its first investments are Enact, Helical and Arlequin AI.
Read the original →Fireworks AI was breached for the second time in 2026, exposing Notion and Cursor users. The report covers what leaked, who is affected, and three steps to take now.
Read the original →Sumary has raised a $25M seed round led by Singular. It will use the funding to expand its AI accounting software across Europe, starting with Benelux.
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