Artificial Intelligence News
AI business news tracks how companies adopt artificial intelligence and how that changes products, competition and work. Follow enterprise deployments, partnerships, company strategy and the effects of AI on jobs and skills. Our reports separate announced ambitions from demonstrated results, with sources and context to help you judge where adoption is useful, costly or still unproven.
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Ten years after its launch, the BBC micro:bit has reached an estimated 12 million devices, with about 73.5 million students learning with it across more than 85 countries, according to the Micro:bit Educational Foundation. Arm says the next chapter is using approachable, hands-on computing to help young people…
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Microsoft is pitching Windows PCs as places where Copilot can build software and run AI models locally, potentially reducing cloud use for some work. But TechRadar’s account of the 7 October launch says the largest model needs substantial memory, and several of the features are not yet generally…
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LinkedIn is piloting a 14-week programme to teach employees how to start businesses, as the company argues that AI is changing the skills employers value. The pilot offers a practical, degree-free route to building a portfolio of work, but LinkedIn has not said when it might open to…
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Kaohsiung’s two main mayoral candidates have set out different plans for growing the city’s AI sector, from an industry cluster to drone development and broader AI education. The proposals put infrastructure, skills and the city’s industrial direction on the campaign agenda ahead of Taiwan’s local elections on 28…
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Companies are moving beyond AI pilots, but access to tools alone is not producing productivity or business value. At Fortune’s AIQ Summit, executives described a more demanding test: redesign workflows, train people and put governance and costs on the same footing as deployment.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI plans to add 200 jobs in Ireland and open an applied AI lab in Dublin, expanding its European operations and adding a substantial new hiring commitment.
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Generative AI can become a very polished yes-machine. Knowledge workers interviewed for a study found a more useful role for it: challenge their assumptions, surface unfamiliar perspectives and help them think through a problem, rather than simply produce the finished answer.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft researchers have introduced StudentSim, a system that simulates how individual learners respond to questions and tutoring. In tests across chess, English writing and maths, it outperformed the reported baselines, and a chess tutoring experiment suggests simulated student feedback could help improve tutors before they are tested with…
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Wand AI chief executive Rotem Alaluf argues that companies need to manage AI agents differently once they are given responsibility for ongoing outcomes, not just individual tasks. His proposal is to give those agents defined objectives, authority and accountability, much as organisations do for people in a workforce.
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Businesses may get more from AI by redesigning workflows around it, rather than simply adding it to existing tasks. A McKinsey survey cited in a Raconteur article found that leaders were 5.3 times more likely to report enterprise value when workflows had been redesigned.
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Several UK universities are changing or ending their Turnitin arrangements after concerns about proposed terms that could allow student work and staff feedback to be used to develop AI services. The dispute is now shaping universities’ software choices, even after Turnitin said it would redraft the terms.
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Amazon has more than a million warehouse robots and is expanding its fleet of robotic arms, including systems designed to handle a huge variety of products. Its newer machines use AI to make picking and sorting decisions, bringing a practical question into sharper focus: when robots work alongside…
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Employees’ personal AI agents can reach workplace systems through permissions and credentials tied to the employee, according to a new security article. The practical challenge is controlling what those agents can access without pretending they can simply be kept out.
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Artificial intelligence is being used across US medical billing, from coding visits to contacting patients about bills and assessing how likely they are to pay. The Guardian reports that these systems could shape both what patients are charged and what collection offers they receive, as hospitals look to…
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SAP is expanding AI across procurement, supplier risk, contingent-workforce management and expense administration. The practical shift is towards assistants embedded in business workflows, with several capabilities planned for release from November 2026 into Q1 2027.
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A University of Liverpool spin-out developing AI-powered materials discovery has raised £4m to advance its technology and commercial partnerships. The funding will help Matter Machine build its team and turn research into a platform aimed at speeding up the search for new materials.
SAP Watch
SAP’s SuccessFactors 2H 2026 release sets out a suite of AI assistants for hiring, payroll, HR operations and staff development. The practical promise is to move beyond chatbot answers towards automating steps in real HR workflows, though SAP describes several capabilities as part of a rollout continuing through…
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PacBio and TychoBio plan to use long-read RNA sequencing to build datasets from more than 10,000 samples, supporting AI research into RNA therapies for rare diseases. The collaboration aims to connect the design of candidate treatments with their effects across the transcriptome, including potential unintended effects.
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Fastrack into Information (FIT), an Irish technology-sector non-profit, says it aims to help 400,000 people develop AI skills by 2030. Its planned training centre is intended to assess learners and map them to learning pathways, turning a large workforce ambition into a concrete, if still developing, programme.
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Researchers at Toronto’s University Health Network are using AI to build interactive 3D models of patients’ anatomy and tumours, aiming to help people understand planned procedures and surgeons prepare for them. The technology could make a difficult conversation more tangible, though it still needs clinical trials.
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An Abu Dhabi start-up called Limb is developing an AI-powered app to give people feedback while they do physiotherapy exercises at home. Its approach also tackles a specific blind spot in computer-vision training data: movement tracking can struggle with the loose-fitting clothes many patients in the UAE wear.
