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Lead story
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.
TSMC Watch
TSMC’s planned capital spending may still fall short of demand for advanced chip packaging, semiconductor veteran Steve Williams told Benzinga. His argument puts the spotlight on a less glamorous but crucial part of the AI-chip build-out: joining processors and high-bandwidth memory into finished accelerators.
Watch Desk
Enterprise AI agents can trigger workflows and act before anyone checks their output, says SAS strategist Marinela Profi. Her practical prescription is to govern the whole action chain: restrict permissions, log tool use and require approval where the consequences warrant it.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic says it will commit $150 million over three years to the US government’s Genesis Mission, providing Claude, Claude Code and API credits to several hundred research projects across more than 15 federal agencies.
Watch Desk
Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have received US Department of Energy Early Career Research Program awards, including funding for machine-learning work in scientific research and AI-guided control of major instruments. The awards put money behind projects aimed at making scientific models more reliable and accelerator systems more…
Microsoft AI Watch
As AI makes software faster to build, Microsoft says start-ups will need to earn a lasting place inside customers’ businesses, not just ship features first. Its proposed moat is a combination of workflow knowledge, useful proprietary data and trusted distribution, a practical argument from a company with a…
Watch Desk
Google has opened its SynthID checker to the public, alongside a prompt-based game builder and an offline meeting-notes app for Mac. The trio covers three very different AI chores: checking media, making games and taking notes without sending the work to the cloud.
Salesforce Watch
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff says AI could turn software interfaces into something that listens, adapts and proactively surfaces useful information. His vision puts Slack, which Salesforce owns, at the centre of a bigger question: will people still go to business apps, or will AI agents become the…
Watch Desk
AI agents may move more of the industry’s value towards the software that gives models memory, tools and room to act, analysts told the South China Morning Post. Meta’s Muse has helped draw attention to that shift, but downloads are an early sign of interest, not proof of…
Meta AI Watch
Meta has answered criticism of data centres with claims about how its facilities use water, pay for energy infrastructure and employ local workers. The company’s case is relevant to AI because it is discussing the infrastructure behind its AI-optimised data centres, but its examples are not an independent…
Watch Desk
Meta’s Muse may be the AI agent in the spotlight today, but investors are looking past the product leaderboard and betting that agent growth will boost demand for chips, memory and power. That infrastructure thesis is gaining ground, even as the winning AI brand remains anyone’s guess.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a reference architecture for letting multiple teams share one SageMaker HyperPod cluster while keeping their workloads and access separate. The practical appeal is clear: share expensive GPU infrastructure without leaving every team to fend for itself on permissions, quotas and cost tracking.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft says AI-assisted reporting has cut one internal product team’s monthly report from a task that took weeks to work that can be sent on the first day of the month. The example shows how better planning data, reusable agent skills and human review fit together in the…
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Geoffrey Hinton says AI models should face safety checks before release, comparing the idea to the US Food and Drug Administration’s role in approving drugs. His account of a recent senators’ briefing also points to a tougher question: can public pressure move faster than legislation?
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GitHub has introduced an AI classifier designed to detect unstructured secrets in code before they land in repository history. It assesses candidate secrets in under two milliseconds, as code creation accelerates and manual cleanup struggles to keep pace.
