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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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Adding agents to an AI system can add voices without adding much independent evidence. A Hugging Face community essay argues that once agents read and revise one another’s answers, agreement may reflect one early view spreading through the group, rather than several independent judgements reaching the same conclusion.
Read the report & discussion ↗Tavus Watch
Tavus has published a practical guide to creating an AI clone from about two minutes of video, including how to record the footage and set limits on what the clone can do. The useful takeaway is that the recording is only the start: what the system knows, when…
Tavus Watch
A person reviewing an AI’s work is a copilot; an AI acting on a handed-off goal is an agent. Tavus argues that conversations which are themselves the task, such as intake or screening, need a different design: a system that stays present throughout the exchange and knows when…
Tavus Watch
Tavus draws a useful line between a live digital twin and an AI replica built from recordings, then describes how its conversational PALs use real-time perception to respond. The distinction matters for buyers: one stays synchronised with a real-world counterpart; the other does not.
Watch Desk
The AI boom is bringing a striking concentration of potential wealth to the Bay Area, as workers already facing high housing costs wonder whether they can afford to stay. ABC7 reports that Redfin estimates current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees hold nearly $200 billion in after-tax equity,…
Watch Desk
AI training is expanding, but the skills people are rushing to learn are not all technical: enrolments in critical thinking and complex problem-solving are rising sharply too. Coursera and Udemy’s joint Global Skills Report puts the UK 19th among 98 countries for combining AI and human skills, a…
NVIDIA Watch
A California man has been arrested over an alleged scheme to send more than $300 million of export-controlled computer servers to China. Ars Technica says the indictment alleges the servers contained Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs, putting AI hardware export controls at the centre of the case.
Meta AI Watch
Meta has let go of employees it hired from AI security startup Virtue AI, four months after they joined. The departure raises a pointed question about how Meta is building its AI safety operation, even as the company says that work remains a priority.
Epoch AI Watch
AI chips shipped through 2027 could eventually support tens to hundreds of millions of concurrent agents running frontier models, according to a new Epoch AI analysis. Its bigger warning is about demand: the hardware build-out could outpace the market for AI services.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has launched the Claude Frontier Academy, committing $100 million to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2028. The programme starts with Accenture and Bain, putting a substantial workforce plan behind the push to deploy AI in organisations.
ASML Watch
ASML reportedly made no sales in Europe in the first half of 2026, despite being one of the continent’s most strategically important technology companies. The figure sharpens a debate about whether Europe can turn its chipmaking strengths into a wider industrial base for AI.
Watch Desk
Researchers inside major AI companies are helping shape policy and challenge executive decisions, according to Axios. Its account points to a practical shift: the people building frontier AI systems may have more sway over what their companies do, and say, than their job titles suggest.
Watch Desk
Wikipedia page views fell 8% in 2025 as more people turn to AI for information, Wikimedia Foundation chief executive Bernadette Meehan tells Axios. She says some companies benefiting from Wikipedia’s data have declined to pay for enterprise access, putting pressure on a resource that AI services also rely…
AWS AI Watch
The Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has partnered with Amazon Web Services to add free cloud and AI courses to its online learning platform. The reported offer has no prerequisites, giving learners a direct route into foundational training without an upfront fee.
Watch Desk
AI coding tools are letting people without programming experience build websites and simple apps, but a working prototype is not the same as dependable software. A report by The Federal describes both the new opportunities and the bugs, false information and security concerns that can follow.
Watch Desk
Tacit, an iPhone app for people who cannot rely on speech, is built around a simple rule: get a message ready to show or speak in two taps. Its AI features have several fallbacks, so a failed model should not leave someone without a way to communicate.
CoreWeave Watch
CoreWeave says its Vera Rubin NVL72 systems are now available, with Cognition already running production workloads on the new hardware. The company also announced a CPU built for AI agents, betting that the infrastructure around the GPUs deserves a place in the spotlight too.
