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Gremlin is adding Foresight AI to its chaos-engineering service, using AI to automate parts of tests that deliberately disrupt working systems. The practical promise is quicker testing and troubleshooting, but letting software break infrastructure makes the limits on its authority rather important.
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Bootstrap has released the first alpha of Bootstrap 6, a major overhaul that modernises its styling and JavaScript foundations. The practical catch: it now requires much newer browsers, so upgrading may mean leaving some users behind.
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AI workloads do not all belong in the same place: Vinod Bijlani’s guide for CIOs argues that cost, data boundaries, latency and operational capacity should decide what runs in the cloud, on specialist GPU services, on-premises or at the edge. Its most useful advice is practical: compare the…
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Anthropic and Hexaware have announced a multi-year partnership to put Claude into Hexaware’s enterprise AI platforms and services. The deal gives Claude a route into IT operations and software engineering work, though the announcement does not name customer deployments or report results.
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Epoch AI estimates that chips shipped through 2027 could support nearly two billion concurrent AI agents running cheaper models, while the cost of reaching a fixed level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter. The figures sketch a future of abundant, cheaper AI capacity, with demand…
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Basecompute’s Hugging Face announcement describes Superfluid as an Apache-2.0 local LLM server with interactive-request prioritisation, session recovery, multiple API and runtime options, and encrypted multi-device inference.
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AI may weaken the old signals of workplace power, such as job titles and reporting lines. A Forbes contributor offers workers a six-part framework for asking who controls the actual terms of their work.
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Anthropic has added two beta features to Claude: Dashboards turns data sources into live dashboards from text prompts, while Motion creates animated explainer videos from text and images. The changes give Claude new ways to turn instructions and source material into visual outputs, rather than stopping at a…
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Anthropic has launched a cyber mission pairing frontier AI models with engineering support for critical-infrastructure defenders, alongside a free, opt-in vulnerability-scanning service for open-source projects. The practical shift is from expanding who can access its cyber models to putting tools and people directly behind two kinds of defence…
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AI safety researcher Paul Christiano says the field may be approaching a period when advanced systems become difficult for people to direct or control. In an interview with BetaKit, he put a possible shift to that more dangerous territory on a six-to-18-month horizon, while stressing that the risks…
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Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model it says can control robot arms, humanoids, cars and drones. The research preview’s appeal is its reach across physical tasks, though the headline results remain a mix of company claims and early demonstrations.
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Upscale AI has launched Token Fabric, a platform designed to connect AI chips from different suppliers in data-centre networks. Its pitch is to give operators more choice over chip suppliers without leaving those chips waiting on data to move.
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FlyJets has launched JetGPT, an AI agent for finding and sharing charter flights that can also help users book flights or list spaces for resale. The key change is that it now reaches beyond chat: FlyJets says users can issue instructions across its marketplace, including setting route alerts…
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AI data centres may save meaningful energy by changing how they run software, not only by installing newer chips. A University of Michigan researcher told Tom’s Hardware that tests and training systems point to gains worth taking seriously, though software is no substitute for more efficient hardware or…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is adding 30 pre-built sales, service and marketing skills to Copilot, alongside new ways to bring Dynamics 365 customer records into Teams. The bigger shift is from AI that answers questions to agents that can move customer work along, with people still reviewing some actions.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is being used to let AI agents pay for model inference one request at a time, with spending limits enforced by infrastructure rather than the model. AWS says startup Incarna put the system into production with inference provider BlockRun, completing the integration in three…
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Digital tools are increasingly being used to monitor workers, set schedules and inform decisions about pay or discipline, according to a new report from a coalition including the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Its account of algorithmic management and AI-driven productivity analytics makes a practical question hard to dodge:…
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AI coding tools are making it easier to build a learning management system in-house, but a quick prototype can leave an organisation with years of maintenance and security work. In a Forbes essay, learning technology executive David James argues that extending an existing platform may be wiser than…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic reportedly made $4.6bn in revenue in 2025 but lost $42bn, as its prospectus sets out huge future commitments to computing infrastructure. The figures, reported by Mashable from Reuters’ account of the prospectus, give investors a striking view of the costs behind the AI company’s growth.
