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AI agents are bringing CPUs back into the centre of the data-centre debate, and AMD has become one of the clearest beneficiaries in the market’s eyes. BigGo Finance reports that AMD first passed a $1 trillion market value on 21 September, amid a surge in expectations for the…
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Ferrari chairman John Elkann says an AI market correction would not stop the technology’s long-term progress, while warning that the gap between heavy investment and uncertain business revenues could create risks. His comments put a useful question beneath the AI boom: who can turn all that infrastructure into…
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DuckDB’s command-line interface is getting an agent mode that trims the output AI coding assistants have to read. The project says experiments found it reduced model-read output by 59% while preserving correct query answers, a practical change for developers using agents with databases.
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AI workloads are putting new demands on networks, while AI tools are also being used to manage those networks. Cisco technical marketing director Kshitij Mahant argues that companies should plan both sides together, rather than leave their teams to compare notes once a quarter.
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A Fortune opinion piece challenges Sam Altman’s call to imagine AI as a new Renaissance rather than an Industrial Revolution, arguing that the upheaval of the latter brought broader material gains. It turns a familiar AI policy debate into a sharper question: who gets to shape the technology,…
OpenAI Watch
ChatGPT can now respond to some prompts with interactive calculators, quizzes and comparisons instead of just a block of text. TechRadar says the new Intelligent UI is available in the standard Chat tab across subscription plans, including Free, putting this change within reach of ordinary users, not just…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform is arriving in a first wave of laptops, with prices starting at $2,600 and one Asus configuration reaching $7,000, PCWorld reports. The lineup pairs Nvidia’s Arm-based chips with high-memory configurations aimed at local AI and other demanding work, making the cost of that promise…
GlobalFoundries Watch
GlobalFoundries has marked a major Dresden factory expansion and unveiled FDX Fusion, a planned chip platform for Physical AI. The investment could lift annual capacity at the site above one million 300mm wafers by the end of 2028, while the new platform is aimed at efficient computing in…
ElevenLabs Watch
Royal Mail used an AI-generated voice in its 2025 Christmas advert, and the daughter of late broadcaster Paul Vaughan says she recognised her father in it. Deadline reports that speech experts also found similarities, while Royal Mail says the voice was not designed to replicate anyone in particular.
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Press Gazette says one AI-assisted reporter produced at least 52 Quartz articles on 8 October, as the business-news brand leans heavily on AI in its website publishing. The report raises a wider question for readers: when AI helps produce news at this scale, what does meaningful human editorial…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI says it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that used ChatGPT in influence campaigns across several countries. NPR’s account describes a striking split: Russian operatives mostly used the chatbot to report their work to superiors, while Iranian operatives used it to help produce material for publication.
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CIQ has made Fuzzball 4.3 generally available, a release designed to help organisations run open-weight AI models and agents on infrastructure they already operate. Its practical pitch is less hand-built integration: start a model, connect an agent and let the platform manage the GPU fleet underneath.
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Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, argues that the immediate danger from AI lies in careless use, including in intelligence and military settings, rather than machines turning against people. She also says Signal would leave any country that forced it to weaken its encryption, putting a clear…
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Huawei says its OceanStor M900 can give AI inference clusters a shared pool of context memory at petabyte scale, with terabyte-per-second performance. The pitch is aimed at a growing infrastructure problem: long-context AI systems need somewhere to keep the KV cache when GPU memory is too small and…
Firecrawl Watch
Firecrawl has published results comparing company-enrichment APIs, with Apollo scoring highest in its benchmark of four common fields. The post also describes how Firecrawl Alexandria lets AI agents call several enrichment providers through one connection, a practical pitch for teams tired of wiring up every API separately.
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Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute’s DARe centre and the University of Birmingham have built an AI model that identifies parts of satellites in orbital radar images. The work could help track what is happening to objects in increasingly busy orbits, though it remains research, not an operational…
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AI is helping some workers get more done, but McKinsey North America chair Eric Kutcher says the gains have yet to translate into broad productivity growth for companies. The gap matters: giving people AI tools is not the same as redesigning work around them.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is changing its Microsoft 365 Family and Premium plans so Copilot benefits can be shared with up to five other people. The trade-off is a shift from 1TB of OneDrive storage per person to 2TB shared across the plan, with that storage change due after a subscriber’s…
Geordie Watch
AI safety is not just a question of which model an organisation approves. In a new article, Geordie.ai argues that an agent’s tools, access and surrounding software can shape what it does just as decisively, with practical consequences for how teams should secure and oversee deployed agents.
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The UK’s £500m Sovereign AI fund is being measured against an industry request for at least £20bn over five years. The comparison is not like-for-like, but it puts a sharp question on the table: how much money and leverage will it take to build AI businesses that stay…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has made Execution Containers generally available on Windows 11, giving developers and IT teams a way to enforce limits on what AI agents and the code they run can access. The notable shift is that the boundary is enforced outside the agent itself, rather than left to…
