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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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Google Cloud has introduced Gemini agent, a work-focused AI assistant designed to handle knowledge work, content creation and coding from one prompt box. Its notable twist is that the agent can use both Gemini and Claude models, with Google saying it plans to add more open and private…
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Developers are using AI regularly, but most draw the line at work they cannot readily check. A new survey account suggests that, for many, trust depends less on enthusiasm than on whether they can inspect the answer.
AWS AI Watch
Hancom is working with AWS to prepare Nomadian, its AI-agent workforce platform, for the US market, with a beta planned for late December. The partnership brings product development and commercial planning together, making this more than a listing on a cloud marketplace.
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Jamie Dimon says AI will eliminate some jobs, but argues businesses and governments should phase in the transition and help affected workers. His example of automated lorries is hypothetical, but the policy choice behind it is real: who absorbs the cost when technology changes work faster than people…
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Jeff Bezos says AI-driven productivity could let some people support their families on a single income or work a three-day week. In a Fox News interview, he also argued for light regulation of AI while the technology develops, putting a prominent tech leader’s optimistic view of work and…
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A malware campaign called PoeLLM is targeting exposed AI and development servers, using compromised machines to spread and mine cryptocurrency, according to BleepingComputer. The report says the activity has been running since at least April, putting a practical security question in front of anyone running these tools: are…
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At a recent Modal conference, AI leaders made the case for software agents that work towards outcomes, while developers and company executives described the gap between AI doing much of a task and taking it off people’s hands. The question is no longer just what models can do,…
AMD Watch
AMD’s ROCm 10.1 release adds faster storage-to-GPU data paths, NUMA-aware host memory and a broader set of tools for deploying and profiling AI workloads. For teams running models on AMD GPUs, the changes target the unglamorous work of getting data to the hardware and understanding where a workload…
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The White House is set to announce more than $1 billion in industry commitments for its Genesis Mission at an AI science summit on Thursday. The plan also includes a multi-state computing hub and more than $100 million in federal funding for AI science tools, putting research capacity…
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Generative AI helped patent attorneys draft, but a three-month study found no average improvement in junior lawyers’ professional judgement. The results raise a practical question for firms: does AI help newer staff learn the work, or mainly help them produce it faster?
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Wizards of the Coast’s union is seeking to expand to cover Dungeons & Dragons staff and another team, while asking company leadership to stop pushing generative AI. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the union is seeking a robust, enforceable AI policy, with a deadline of 13 October for voluntary recognition…
Stanford HAI Watch
Stanford HAI researchers found that paralegals used an AI tool 58% more, and experimented with it 70% more, when managers framed it as a way to make work more meaningful rather than simply faster. Their study suggests that training, time to explore and measures that recognise higher-value work…
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AI leaders who fear the consequences of powerful systems may also feel compelled to build them before less cautious rivals do, journalist Kevin Roose argues. His proposed counterweight is a mix of oversight and coordination, not simply hoping the race slows itself down.
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Georgia Tech plans to launch an online master’s degree in artificial intelligence in 2027, with six concentrations spanning business, health and human-AI interaction. The programme is designed for working professionals who want to apply AI in their fields, not just study it in isolation.
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Valon has raised $150 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to expand ValonOS, its mortgage-servicing platform, and the AI agents built into it. The company says one in six outstanding US mortgages is now under contract to run on the platform, putting its claims about AI in regulated…
AWS AI Watch
Qlik says most of its Qlik Cloud accounts with agentic tools enabled are actively using them, while its Discovery Agent has surfaced more than 100,000 discoveries since launch. The case study also shows how Qlik built its AI assistant to ground answers in company data rather than asking…
AWS AI Watch
AWS describes a six-week programme in which four customer-facing professionals without engineering backgrounds built a multi-agent AI prototype, with about four hours of work each week. Its useful lesson is practical: give people time, mentors and a real problem to solve, rather than asking them to learn AI…
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Cornerstone says its multi-agent AI system cut database diagnosis from 45 minutes to 10, while also reducing redundant alerts and replacing manual operational steps with a single interaction. The system, built with Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents, offers a concrete example of AI being put to work inside…
