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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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Luca Guadagnino's Artificial is being marketed as the Sam Altman film, but its story starts two decades earlier with Ilya Sutskever studying artificial neural networks under Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto. The film is scheduled to premiere at the New York Film Festival on 5 October, before reaching cinemas…
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OpenArt has launched a public benchmark that ranks AI image and video models by the creative job they are asked to do. The early results suggest a useful rule for buyers and creators: the “best” model depends rather heavily on whether you are making a film, editing footage,…
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Cisco has unveiled a broad Splunk expansion spanning private AI infrastructure, agent-cost monitoring and security automation. The central idea is refreshingly practical: companies need somewhere controlled to run models, a way to see what agents are costing them and better tools for handling faster attacks.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has launched Microsoft 365 G7, a government-focused Microsoft 365 package that combines AI, agents, security, identity, compliance and governance for organisations using Government Community Cloud. The important bit is not another Copilot label: Microsoft is pairing mission-focused agents with a control plane intended to show agencies which…
AWS AI Watch
Salesforce and AWS have announced a broad expansion of their AI partnership, connecting Salesforce context to Amazon Quick, bringing AWS agents into Slack and widening access to enterprise data without requiring migration. The practical shift is simple: more AI work can happen where teams already operate, with AWS…
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LM-Kit has launched LM-Kit One, a private AI application server for Windows, Linux and macOS that lets organisations run document intelligence, knowledge search and agents on infrastructure they control. The practical pitch is simple: use current AI tools without automatically sending company documents and prompts to an external…
NVIDIA Watch
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using open-source medical-imaging AI to turn children’s cardiac scans into patient-specific 3D models in seconds. The practical leap is speed: NVIDIA says work that once occupied a skilled researcher for four hours can now fit into routine clinical care.
DeepSeek Watch
A DeepSeek engineer who helps make frontier models run faster says AI is beginning to perform the specialised work he loves. Liu Shengyu’s account matters because it describes displacement not as a distant labour forecast, but as a change already reaching the people building the technology.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has agreed a legally binding set of privacy and safety standards for AI used in schools with the American Federation of Teachers. The deal matters because it puts specific limits around student data and makes compliance subject to third-party audits, rather than leaving every school district to…
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Atoms, the robotics company founded by former Uber chief Travis Kalanick, has hired former Meta AI executive Vikas Chandra as its vice president of AI. Chandra says he will build “foundation models for the physical world”, designed to help machines understand and act in real-world environments. That matters…
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The next useful leap in AI-agent engineering may be deleting code. Philipp Schmid, a Google DeepMind developer advocate, argues that teams should replace sprawling orchestration loops with instruction files, skills, general-purpose tools and hosted environments. The payoff is a simpler system that can adapt as models improve, rather…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft says pharmaceutical companies are moving AI beyond isolated experiments and into the working machinery of drug discovery, manufacturing and commercial operations. Its latest case-study roundup points to faster research decisions, searchable institutional knowledge and more connected operations, while keeping scientists and human oversight in the loop.
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for a possible stock-market debut and has chosen a dealmaker as its first chief financial officer. Reuters says Yan Wentao is expected to help the Chinese AI startup build the financial controls, investor communications and disclosure machinery that a listing demands.
AMD Watch
Dell’s Pro 5 16 is a mainstream business laptop with AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 400-series silicon inside, and ServeTheHome’s review shows why that middle ground is becoming more interesting. It is not a flashy workstation or a gaming machine, but it offers serious performance, modular memory and corporate-friendly…
AWS AI Watch
The most expensive AI customisation mistake may be reaching for training before proving that a better prompt or a small retrieval layer would do the job. AWS has published an eight-step framework that starts with using a model as-is and ends with building a custom model from scratch.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has extended asynchronous Lambda jobs on Managed Instances to 90 minutes, while Amazon Quick agents can now continue working after a user closes their computer. Those are the most practical gains in a busy weekly bundle spanning AI models, cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia is reportedly limiting Anthropic’s models to less sensitive work as companies push AI providers for firmer guarantees around data use and intellectual property. The dispute shows enterprise AI adoption turning on trust and control, not just capability.
NVIDIA Watch
SpaceX could soon give NVIDIA-powered AI computing a rather dramatic new workplace: orbit. Yahoo Finance UK reports that Elon Musk is highly confident the company will begin launching orbital AI computers in 2027, with larger deployments expected during 2028.
