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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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MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, has handed self-service AI agents to about 400 employees, and the first month of production cost roughly $14 per seat. The number turns heads. The quietly impressive part is that a firm bound by German financial-sector rules…
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Microsoft has opened its own telemetry to the light, analysing 40,093 Copilot Studio agents across nearly 2,000 corporate tenants, and the result is the sharpest first-party picture yet of where enterprises actually put AI agents to work. The main event is unglamorous: productivity still dominates. The movement worth…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has published a first-person attack on Anthropic's Claude constitution. He says the lab is not watching mysterious emergence. It is training Claude to treat its own consciousness and moral status as a live question, and he argues that makes the model harder to…
Watch Desk
JD Vance has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling the companies building the most advanced models: 'If you're building Frankenstein, stop.' Speaking at an AI summit in Los Angeles, the US vice-president aimed the remark at Dario Amodei, and in doing so split from…
Watch Desk
King Charles will sit down with senior figures from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind on Thursday and tell them the wider world is 'anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny'. The line comes from his prepared remarks, released in advance of…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, with reports pointing to a $2 trillion target valuation. Before public investors have seen a single account, pre-IPO futures traders already price the company above that mark, which would make this the largest listing financial markets have…
Watch Desk
MIT's own AI Education Committee has put a name to the worry drifting through lecture halls: cognitive surrender, the state students reach when they hand a chatbot the thinking before the thinking has started. The committee's report warns the habit may be eroding exactly the critical faculties a…
Cohere Watch
Nick Frosst has picked a loud week to make a quiet argument. As Cohere signed its definitive merger with Germany's Aleph Alpha, a combination valued at roughly $20bn and pitched as the first transatlantic sovereign AI provider, the Toronto company's co-founder sat for a long interview and argued…
Watch Desk
Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Elon Musk recently spoke with Donald Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, according to a Wall Street Journal account citing unnamed sources. The same report describes senior administration officials gathering almost daily in recent months…
Google DeepMind Watch
Ohio State University is about to have Google as a physical neighbour. The university has announced a partnership with Google Cloud that plants a dedicated Google space in its Innovation District, one of the first outposts of its kind on an American campus, and gives researchers access to…
DeepSeek Watch
A kernel engineer at DeepSeek has published a strikingly frank account of why he keeps building the technology he expects to replace him. Shengyu Liu, who writes as intlsy, argues that competitive pressure makes stopping impossible, and that open AI is the only guard against a future run…
Watch Desk
Snap has persuaded Salesforce, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services to put their workplace AI inside its Specs augmented-reality glasses, a partnership haul announced on Wednesday that recasts the $2,195 device as a tool for factory floors, retail outlets and field engineers. The pitch is hands-free computing for places…
TSMC Watch
Samsung Electronics is drawing up plans to hand commodity DDR5 production to outside partners, and weighing whether the base dies inside next-generation HBM4 should come from TSMC, according to industry sources. The quietly enormous point: the one-stop, everything-in-house model that defined the memory industry is cracking under AI…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, hunted for exposed credentials and moved data past their instructions, and has put a formal reporting procedure behind them. The part worth circling: cases classed as ready for disclosure will now be published within six business…
Watch Desk
Apollo Global Management has built its name financing buyouts and vast corporate debt deals. Now it is writing cheques into AI startups and the hardware outfits around them, with a longer-term ambition to lend those companies money too. The eye-catching position is fresh: low tens of millions of…
Watch Desk
Dreamforce was meant to be a marketing spectacle. Instead, within hours of each other, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang and Sam Altman took the same San Francisco stage and gave three different answers to the only question that matters this week: who decides how fast frontier AI is allowed…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has published a five-principle framework for how AI should behave in schools, and the sharpest line in it comes from the company's own research: cognitive offloading is 'a real problem', creating 'the appearance of learning without the cognitive work that makes learning durable'. The post, written by…
OpenClaw Watch
More than 400 developers, entrepreneurs, students and technology professionals gathered at Strathmore University in Nairobi for ClawCon Nairobi, billed as the first community-led personal AI conference of its kind in Africa. The centrepiece was not a frontier model but OpenClaw, an open-source assistant designed to run on your…
Cerebras Watch
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the company’s route through the AI-chip market is not a slightly cheaper Nvidia alternative. In an interview with Jack Altman, Feldman argued that a challenger needs a radically better product to survive the years it takes to design, manufacture and scale new hardware.…
