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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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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.
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Around 300 people rallied in Caernarfon against plans for a large AI data centre near the Menai Strait, according to Wales Online. The proposal promises jobs, but has prompted questions about the scale of the development and its local impact.
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Ottawa-based Caseway says it is turning away from opportunities with the US government and focusing on Canadian defence, while looking for other opportunities in Europe and Taiwan. The decision puts a practical cost on Canada’s search for a more independent AI industry: Caseway says it walked away from…
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AI can help patients put concerns into words, but some GP practices are receiving complaints so long and complex that staff say they are harder to answer. The Medical Protection Society says its survey found that 45 per cent of nearly 160 UK practice managers had seen AI-drafted…
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has opened an eight-week consultation that would put technology and AI explicitly into the standards for competent legal practice. The proposals could make responsible use of AI a professional competence issue for solicitors and qualification candidates, not merely a matter of firm preference.
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SK Group plans to select about 50 young adults for a two-year, full-time AI problem-solving programme, paying each 3 million won a month. The unusual offer is not a degree or a job guarantee, but a paid route to learning by doing.
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Seven Swedish university hospitals and AI Sweden are launching a national programme to train 600 healthcare employees in AI, backed by SEK 18 million in European Social Fund funding. The initiative aims to build practical skills across healthcare, where making AI useful means more than handing the IT…
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Tata Consultancy Services says 80% of its future hires will have digital and AI skills, as AI-led work reached 10% of revenue in the September quarter. The figures offer a snapshot of how the IT services giant is reshaping its hiring and business around AI, though the company…
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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu argues that societies should respond to AI-driven job losses by creating ways for people to earn beyond conventional employment, rather than paying everyone a universal basic income. His proposal puts the question of who benefits from AI’s productivity at the centre of the debate,…
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AI at work is not only a question of which jobs may disappear. Speakers at a Dublin conference described workers being monitored more closely, moved into lower-paid editing work and left carrying a heavier workload without extra pay or time off.
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Kristalina Georgieva says artificial intelligence could affect about 40% of jobs worldwide, with developing countries facing particular exposure. The IMF chief is urging governments to rethink education for a labour market where some jobs may change and others disappear.
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AI chatbots are becoming a sounding board for relationship problems, but treating one as an impartial referee can make a row harder to repair. Experts interviewed by The Independent suggest using AI to prepare for a difficult conversation, not to decide who is right.
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Korean job postings mentioning generative AI tools rose 170% year on year in the third quarter, with listings naming Claude up 770%, according to JobKorea data reported by The Korea Times. The figures suggest employers are increasingly asking for familiarity with specific AI tools, not just general digital…
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StudyStash, an AI-enabled study platform built by two University of Birmingham graduates, has been sold to digital learning provider Kortext after reaching more than 160 institutions. The deal gives Kortext a university-focused study product with optional AI features, including turning course materials into interactive podcasts in 121 languages.
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Microsoft describes using AI agents internally to help employees find career-development resources, give managers workforce insights and connect colleagues with relevant expertise. The useful detail is not that AI has arrived in HR, but what the company says it is doing, and where it still expects people to…
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An AI hiring agent at law firm Addleshaw Goddard ranked unusually polished CVs highly, while a working paper suggests candidates using the same AI model as a recruiter may be more likely to make the shortlist. The findings raise a practical concern for applicants and employers: AI-written applications…
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Researchers have built an AI model that identifies individual satellite components in radar images and tracks them across a sequence, even when a satellite rotates and a part disappears from view. The work, involving the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Birmingham, could help improve space monitoring…
Mistral AI Watch
Germany has no current procurement plans for an AI framework agreement with Mistral and SAP, putting a public-sector project announced in 2025 on hold. The companies say their separate commercial collaboration continues, so this is a government pullback, not the end of their partnership.
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CaixaBank is expanding its Google Cloud partnership through 2033, with Gemini Enterprise agents set to help bank teams handle complex information and routine work. The agreement makes AI part of a wider banking technology programme, not a standalone chatbot launch.
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A Christchurch restaurant owner says a Google review carried a photo of rats that she believes was altered with AI, and fears the allegations are hurting her business. The report also describes a police file now closed, despite the owners’ request for an investigation.
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Elecrow’s CrowPi 3 is a Raspberry Pi learning station with 41 built-in sensors and lessons in computer vision, speech recognition and chatbots. The useful catch: its larger language models connect to online services, rather than running locally on the Pi.
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AI is spreading through businesses faster than it is changing how they work, according to Fortune commentary by Ming Lu. The gap is striking: 88% of organisations reportedly use AI in at least one function, but only 6% qualify as high performers with more than 5% EBIT impact.
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Hong Kong is using AI to track rats with thermal cameras, mapping when and where they appear. The system gives officials a new surveillance tool, but its “rodent absence rate” measures what cameras catch, not whether a district is rat-free.
AWS AI Watch
AWS is developing cloud services around AI agents, including isolated code-running sandboxes with temporary permissions, Jawlah reports. The shift matters because agents need more than a model endpoint: they need somewhere to run, access to data and carefully limited permissions.
