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Meta says more than one million businesses are using AI agents on WhatsApp and Messenger, and points to a car-rental example where an agent handled bookings from vehicle choice through payment. The claim puts a practical question behind the talk of AI transforming business: are these tools already…
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A malware campaign called PoeLLM is targeting exposed AI and development servers, using compromised machines to spread and mine cryptocurrency, according to BleepingComputer. The report says the activity has been running since at least April, putting a practical security question in front of anyone running these tools: are…
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Singapore’s financial regulator wants firms to have every AI use case independently reviewed before it goes live. The guidance also calls for ongoing monitoring, including of third-party AI, and says firms remain accountable for AI used in the services they provide.
Meta AI Watch
A phishing campaign is using a fake Meta Muse Ads website to trick advertising workers into handing over account credentials and multi-factor authentication codes, The Register reports. The site is one of several AI-branded lures built on the same operation, a reminder that a convincing login window can…
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At a recent Modal conference, AI leaders made the case for software agents that work towards outcomes, while developers and company executives described the gap between AI doing much of a task and taking it off people’s hands. The question is no longer just what models can do,…
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TypeSafe AI has emerged from two years in stealth with Jev, a model designed to give software typed decisions and confidence estimates rather than conversational answers. Its pitch is a different kind of AI tool for automation, with the company claiming striking speed and cost advantages on its…
Anthropic Watch
Claude Code 2.1.293 makes Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API, while also fixing a collection of bugs in agent sessions, tool handling and message delivery. For developers, this is a practical update: a new default model and fewer ways for routine work to go…
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Google DeepMind’s Philipp Schmid says its managed agent environments let developers give an AI agent a persistent place to run code, install tools and continue work across requests. The practical pitch is fewer bits of infrastructure for developers to assemble themselves, and a shift from chatting with a…
AMD Watch
AMD’s ROCm 10.1 release adds faster storage-to-GPU data paths, NUMA-aware host memory and a broader set of tools for deploying and profiling AI workloads. For teams running models on AMD GPUs, the changes target the unglamorous work of getting data to the hardware and understanding where a workload…
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AWS’s applied AI chief Colleen Aubrey argues that businesses should judge AI by whether it changes the performance of the business, not by treating “AI ROI” as a standalone score. Her examples include a planning tool that AWS says helped one customer expand inventory oversight from 20 products…
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The UK AI Security Institute has released Transect, an open-source tool for exploring long AI-agent evaluation transcripts. It turns a sprawling run into an interactive timeline, helping reviewers connect an agent’s activity, tool use and delegation to the evidence behind the analysis.
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Arista has announced an Ethernet rack-scale portfolio for AI infrastructure, led by a design intended to connect up to 144 accelerators in a single-hop domain. The pitch is an open alternative aimed at heterogeneous systems beyond Nvidia’s ecosystem, where networking becomes part of the rack’s core architecture rather…
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DeepSeek is reportedly nearing a funding round worth more than 80 billion yuan, with CATL and Tencent among the largest prospective investors. The reported deal would give the AI company a substantial war chest as it builds the computing capacity needed to serve its models, but negotiations are…
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Unity has announced Spark, a browser-based tool for making and sharing games with AI, and says it will not require prior game-development experience. Kotaku’s account of the promotional trailer shows a workflow built around prompts, ready-made Unity assets and tools for directing gameplay. The harder question is whether…
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The White House is set to announce more than $1 billion in industry commitments for its Genesis Mission at an AI science summit on Thursday. The plan also includes a multi-state computing hub and more than $100 million in federal funding for AI science tools, putting research capacity…
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Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for a custom AI chip it is developing with OpenAI, Bloomberg reports, citing the Wall Street Journal. The scale points to the financing challenge behind the race to build AI computing capacity, not just the chip itself.
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ASUS has announced ProArt laptops powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform, aimed at running AI models and creative workflows locally. The P16 and P14 are listed for US pre-orders from $2,599.99, with the first units due on 16 October; the announcement also outlines a compact desktop system for…
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Generative AI helped patent attorneys draft, but a three-month study found no average improvement in junior lawyers’ professional judgement. The results raise a practical question for firms: does AI help newer staff learn the work, or mainly help them produce it faster?
Applied Digital Watch
Applied Digital reported $341.9 million in fiscal first-quarter revenue, up 322% year on year, while setting out a growing pipeline of AI data-centre projects. The company’s results show the scale of demand it is building for, alongside the cost and execution challenge of turning that pipeline into operating…
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A digital model helped engineers redesign a major drainage system beneath Austin, with the project’s engineering firm estimating more than $200 million in savings. The case shows how shared data and faster modelling can change infrastructure decisions, while AI’s role in the article is broader than this particular…
