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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.
Lead story
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.
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Microsoft is reshaping Copilot into a work hub, with coding tools, an AI agent and Office features brought into the assistant. The shift puts Microsoft’s familiar productivity apps inside its bet on AI-driven work, rather than simply adding more AI buttons to Word and Excel.
Salesforce Watch
Salesforce is recasting Slack as a shared workspace for AI agents, where colleagues can work alongside an agent and see its answers, activity and decisions together. The most concrete pieces are a Slackbot that can answer in shared channels using company information it is permitted to access, and…
Watch Desk
Europe’s AI debate is not short of plans; it is short of comparable capital and computing scale. A Diari ARA opinion piece argues that private investment, rather than publicly selected gigafactories, should do more of the heavy lifting.
Microsoft AI Watch
Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and the company, prompting another leadership reshuffle around Office and Teams. The change lands as Microsoft reorganises its productivity software around Copilot and agents, making it a consequential handover for the people shaping those products.
GMI Cloud Watch
At a San Francisco hackathon on 26 September, 55 teams built working projects around Jev, a model from TypeSafe AI, using GMI Cloud’s inference service for text, image, video and voice generation. The useful idea was to give quick, typed decisions to one model and leave the actual…
Shopify Watch
Shopify is rolling out Canvas, a visual workspace where merchants can work with its Sidekick AI to build and redesign online stores. The notable shift is that Sidekick can make coordinated changes to a theme while merchants see the interactive result across the whole store, rather than judging…
Watch Desk
Universities adopting AI assistants may be outsourcing more than computing, argues Hugging Face community writer Vasileios Stergiou: they may also be handing a private company influence over how students encounter difficult questions. His proposed alternative is to run open-weight models on infrastructure the institution controls, and make the…
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral is expanding its Canadian business, planning offices in Montreal and Toronto while hiring researchers, developers and customer-facing engineers. The move shows how the French AI company is turning interest in sovereign AI into a push to build and customise systems for local organisations, though most of its…
Watch Desk
The Trump administration has unveiled America.gov, an AI-powered portal intended to help people find federal information and services through ordinary-language questions. Its initial role is navigation, not completing applications: a useful distinction when the destination is a passport or Medicare service, not a restaurant recommendation.
ASML Watch
ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines are a crucial part of the supply chain for advanced chips, and each reportedly costs about $400 million. A detailed account of the technology also shows why expanding chip capacity is a long, complicated business, not a tap that can simply be turned…
Watch Desk
Researchers and others concerned about artificial intelligence gathered at Lighthaven in Berkeley for AGI.WTF, a conference on AI risk and the people building a movement around it. The story is not just about worst-case forecasts: it offers a glimpse of how that community is organising, debating and trying…
Powerful Medical Watch
Powerful Medical and emergency medical equipment maker corpuls have announced a partnership to put Queen of Hearts AI ECG analysis into the ambulance workflow. The planned integration would return an interpretation to a corpuls3 monitor within seconds, with initial coverage across the European Union, Switzerland and the UK.…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google is preparing Gemini 4 for launch amid internal disagreement about how well it handles practical coding tasks, Bloomberg reports. The gap at the heart of the story is a familiar one in AI: strong benchmark results do not automatically translate into a model that works well on…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has added metadata pre-filtering to Amazon S3 Vectors, so searches can narrow to matching records before comparing their similarity. AWS says highly selective filters can return up to five times more matching vectors than the previous approach on indexes using CLASSIC mode, a practical change for scoped…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has published a study estimating which US job tasks today’s robots can perform, and where they can do them. Its central finding is a useful brake on automation headlines: robots can perform an estimated 74% of physical tasks, but are cost-competitive with people for just 0.3% of…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI is planning to raise at least $30bn from investors, while pushing back its plans for an IPO, Bloomberg says. The reported fundraising scale makes this a consequential change in how the company may finance its next phase, not just another date slipping on a calendar.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft says healthcare organisations are putting AI into everyday workflows, with examples ranging from drafting clinical notes to helping staff search research and business information. The useful detail is that these are specific deployments, not just another promise that healthcare will be transformed shortly after lunch.
