Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech… Read more: Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober

. After a decade building and scaling product-led startups across fintech and insurance, Prateek Jogani set out in 2025 to find his next problem to solve. AI was the unavoidable frontier, and a closer look… Read more: Are Boutique AI Firms India’s Next Big Thing?

Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content… Read more: Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard

The Hubble Space Telescope still shines in the eyes of astronomers after 36 years in orbit, but it is not as nimble as it once was. Left alone, the observatory will plunge back into the… Read more: Think you can save the Hubble Space Telescope? NASA wants to know.

Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding. The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo co-founder Adrian Aoun confirmed the report… Read more: Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The compromised package… Read more: Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data… Read more: Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers

Along with the rest of the world, we at Ars are mourning Sir Patrick Stewart—the beloved award-winning actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in… Read more: Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart

For a genuine fright this Halloween, you can turn your gaze to the southern border, where ravenous, flesh-eating maggots are festering and have taken to eating people’s pets. This week, the country’s New World Screwworm… Read more: Flesh-eating screwworms are feasting on pets; 4 dogs and cat attacked this week

Former Adaptive ML CRO and founding Postman enterprise sales leader brings experience turning developer adoption into enterprise revenue  Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum the Agentic Database Cloud, today announced the appointment of… Read more: Cockroach Labs Names Sam Jones as Chief Revenue Officer

It turns out the only thing more sycophantic than AI chatbots are the people in charge of building them. After president Donald Trump decreed that artificial intelligence should now be referred to as “Super Intelligence”… Read more: Tech Leaders Kiss the Ring and Refuse to Call It “AI” After Trump Told Them Not to

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

As AI tools and agents have continued their march across all aspects of digital life, many companies are trying to use LLMs to improve the experience of purchasing goods and services on the Internet. Thus… Read more: Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

A significant number of patients in the US lie to their doctors to get antibiotics they likely don’t need, according to two new studies. While that may not be a startling revelation, the studies drills… Read more: Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren’t even good

On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called “Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem.” This week, Schnell discovered the depths of the problem himself… Read more: Dartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sympathizes with Gen Zers entering the job market. It’s just unfortunate that the AI tools he’s responsible for ushering into the world are completely upending the nature of work and finding… Read more: Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI

Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company’s filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI… Read more: I read Anthropic’s 92-page risk factor document, so you don’t have to – video explainer

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate… Read more: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Crater counts tell us that most of the Martian surface is more than 3 billion years old, but pieces of Mars we have on Earth tell a different story. The three main classes of Martian… Read more: Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust

In the wake of fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own (AO3) announcing a weeks-long security incident outage, readers and writers are reflecting on why the site is important to the fanfiction community, and how they’re… Read more: ‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage

People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter… Read more: Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?

Businesses can manage agentic commerce with greater confidence by verifying AI agent identities, enforcing human approvals, and blocking unauthorized or high-risk activity.Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous… Read more: Shufti Announced the Launch of Know Your Agent

Sorry to anybody who believes AI models deserve rights: the Pontiff is not on your side. In a lengthy thread on X-formerly-Twitter today, Pope Leo XIV issued a scathing rebuke of calls for “AI personhood,”… Read more: Pope Leo Comes Out Swinging Against AI Personhood

Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough A sell-off of tech stocks that began earlier this month and gained steam with disappointing earnings from… Read more: Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports

Google is adding Gemini-powered autofill to Chrome using information from Gmail. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what privacy concerns to consider. The post Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What… Read more: Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What Users Should Know

Mistral releases Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model targeting cybersecurity. Here’s what IT teams should know about costs and deployment. The post Mistral Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model for Cybersecurity appeared first on TechRepublic.

A new report from the analytics firm Quilty Space confirms that, outside of China, the world faces a significant shortage of rockets over the next five years. The firm estimates that between now and 2030,… Read more: Analysts find looming launch crisis is “more severe” than anticipated

The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and steal student loans.… Read more: Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says

In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes… Read more: Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

China’s AGIBOT sets a Guinness World Record by deploying 110 humanoid robots to dance in sync, showcasing advances in robot coordination and fleet automation. The post 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets… Read more: 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets Guinness World Record

Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio costs $22,299. Explore its M5 Ultra specs, memory upgrades, pricing, and whether this high-end workstation is worth buying. The post Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Now Costs $22,299: Here’s What You Get… Read more: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Now Costs $22,299: Here’s What You Get

Researchers have amassed a trove of more than 25,000 calls to a support hotline for people during and after psychedelic trips, making it “the largest dataset of psychedelic support interactions ever assembled—exceeding the combined sample… Read more: Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing

Recent updates help product teams execute to the same standard by sharing context and skills, collaborating with stakeholders, and scoping and sizing work with more precision. Allstacks, the workspace for product teams and AI to… Read more: Allstacks Enhances Product Studio With Collaboration and Code Context

On Friday, Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, cancelled a series of nearly company-wide ‘re-interviews’ that would have forced employees to explain how they are using AI, with the clear intention that they may be… Read more: Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

CIMD support and OAuth token exchange let companies connect MCP-compatible AI apps and govern access on behalf of customers. FusionAuth, the deploy anywhere Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform built for security, control, and… Read more: FusionAuth 1.70 Enables Secure App Access for Customer AI Agents

Vendor-independent platform unifies AI discovery, security, governance, and cost management across employee AI applications and agents OmniTrust today announced the launch of OmniTrust Halo, an AI governance platform that helps organizations put AI to work… Read more: OmniTrust Announced the Launch of Halo, a Unified AI Governance Platform

Shares of US chipmaker Intel cratered on Friday, plunging almost 30 percent, the worst stock collapse in 52 years. The wipeout, analysts said, could be due to a massive slowdown in the PC market. The… Read more: Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers

Technology and urban planning | The Guardian letters page | Porridge Your account of the datacentre controversy in Cardiff (The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle, 24 October)… Read more: A question for those who hate datacentres

David Gibson says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while Charles MacKinnon notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understand Chris Stokel-Walker may… Read more: Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss customer service and Proton fallout. JASON: Since… Read more: Behind the Blog: Tech Support

The entire US stock market looked like a house of Halloween horrors on Friday, driven by rapidly sinking tech stocks tied to the swelling AI bubble. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 — home of major AI stocks… Read more: Stock Market Bloodbath Spikes Fears of AI Bubble Bursting

As potentially the largest IPO in history, Anthropic PBC is breaking new ground. Its prospectus lists 88 risk factors covering 93 pages alone. From artificial intelligence posing an existential threat to humanity to the possibility… Read more: The hidden threat in Anthropic’s prospectus: diseconomies of scale

The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI initial public offering of stock this year. Nearly 70,000 words in the filing list a… Read more: As Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout – yet

Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can see money… Read more: Beyond the books: Real-time data is driving a small-business lending surge

Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial intelligence is now giving financial software… Read more: Intuit targets the mid-market ERP gap with AI

Ahead of the deadly airstrikes and military raid that saw US troops kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and deputy to the National Assembly Cilia Flores, Donald Trump was reportedly in the throes of a weeks-long… Read more: Democrats Trying to Get Hold of Trump’s Grok Conversations

Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with… Read more: Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural

Binance has suspended all withdrawals after the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange fell victim to what appears to be the biggest heist in history. The exchange put the “estimated total impact” of the hack at about… Read more: Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist

General Motors marketed its Smart Driver system as a way for parents to monitor teen drivers or for adults to track their driving behavior. But in 2024, it emerged that GM had been sharing that… Read more: GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data

University of Kentucky administrator David Durman was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work, claiming that use of the tech violates his religious beliefs as a humanist. As Religion News Service reports, Durman… Read more: Man Granted Religious Exemption Against Using AI at Work

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Altering copyright law to allow AI companies… Read more: Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case

Welcome to Edition 9.17 of the Rocket Report! It’s been a while since an American company announced plans for a medium-lift new launch vehicle, but that’s what happened this week when a startup named Cowboy… Read more: Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire

In 2015, biomedical entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes was Silicon Valley’s golden girl, lauded as the youngest and richest self-made female billionaire thanks to the company she founded, Theranos, which was valued at $9 billion at the… Read more: Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes’ deceit

Nissan provided flights from Washington, DC, to Santa Barbara, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Rogue Hybrid. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Nissan has a new version of its best-selling Rogue… Read more: 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there’s no plug involved

Not everyone trusts their own personality. Nicoleta Ionescu/Shutterstock You finally started an online conversation with a stranger you find attractive, yet you don’t really know what to say. They seem happy to talk, but you… Read more: Why it could be a bad idea to get AI to flirt for you

My ears perked up when I heard Apple’s new foldable phones were cracking. I licked my lips when the company announced it’s releasing a touch-screen laptop. This was a company that once charged $19 for… Read more: Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era

Building an AI agent that works in a demo takes an afternoon. Proving it works on the 10,000th run, with messy inputs, flaky APIs, and a user who types “do the thing from yesterday,” takes… Read more: Your guide to AI agent evaluation: Metrics, methods, and best practices.

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon brings advanced cybersecurity capabilities to selected defenders first. Here’s who’s eligible and what comes next. The post Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon With Advanced Cybersecurity Skills — Who Gets Access First?… Read more: Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon With Advanced Cybersecurity Skills — Who Gets Access First?

A surprising discovery at UC San Diego suggests that chronic lower back pain may become deeply embedded in the brain’s sense of personal identity. Researchers found that movement-triggered pain activates a brain network associated with… Read more: Scientists discover why chronic back pain feels so personal

Scientists have discovered that three bizarre deep-sea fish that look exactly like seahorses actually belong to a separate evolutionary group, proving that nature created the same unusual body shape more than once. Nicknamed “sea muppets,”… Read more: Scientists discover mysterious seahorse lookalikes that no one has ever seen alive

Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble was caused by stellar activity rather than a giant planet. Although Jupiter-sized worlds have been ruled out in… Read more: A mysterious star system just 16 light-years away may be hiding habitable planets

Earth is warming faster than ever recorded, with scientists detecting a major acceleration in global temperatures since around 2015. A new study reveals that the warming rate has surged to approximately 0.35°C per decade, nearly… Read more: Scientists confirm global warming is accelerating faster than ever recorded

Two astronauts completed a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk to install a new solar array on the International Space Station, bringing NASA one step closer to a major power upgrade. Once the final array is installed on… Read more: Astronauts just gave the International Space Station a powerful upgrade

A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths every year. Researchers found that as many as 7 million… Read more: Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year

A surprising discovery by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope is challenging a leading explanation for how the early universe emerged from a dense fog of hydrogen roughly 13 billion years ago. Scientists once believed… Read more: Hubble reveals a stunning twist in how the universe emerged from darkness

A computer scientist has achieved a breakthrough in a nearly 25-year-old problem involving how computers calculate distances across enormous networks. The new algorithm delivers more reliable estimates for closely connected points without sacrificing speed, overcoming… Read more: A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996

Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm environments placed them in… Read more: The asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Why did crocodiles survive?

Scientists have created a miniature universe in the laboratory that could help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: What is time, and where does it come from? Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University… Read more: Physicists created a tiny universe and watched time emerge without a clock

Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones are finding that agentic AI can shorten the research cycle between a crisis and an informed response. Cloudera Inc. has built its AI strategy around deployment flexibility, and one… Read more: AI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones

Enterprise data platforms must turn AI pilots into measurable business returns while overcoming the data access, sovereignty and cost barriers that stand between experimentation and production. The conversation is shifting from what AI can do… Read more: AI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results

Enterprises racing to put AI agents into production are discovering that role-based access control, not model choice, decides whether those agents can be trusted. Rising inference costs, privacy worries and sovereignty demands are also pulling… Read more: The race to deploy AI agents finds a familiar hurdle in data access

Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro arrives Nov. 6. Explore pricing, M5 Pro and M5 Max specs, OLED features, battery life, and whether it’s worth upgrading. The post Apple Touchscreen MacBook Pro Cheat Sheet: Price, Specs, and… Read more: Apple Touchscreen MacBook Pro Cheat Sheet: Price, Specs, and More

Enterprises have embraced AI for everyday tasks, but turning autonomous agents into measurable business returns is proving far harder. The bottleneck is no longer the technology but the organizational change needed to rewire processes around… Read more: Monday.com bets on deployment experts to turn AI agents into real returns

As AI agents spread across enterprise workflows, permission management is becoming one of the most practical levers for keeping them safe. Agents act with the access people give them, so the old problem of sprawling… Read more: Brakes built for speed: Why least privilege lets monday.com’s AI teams move faster

In the future, you won’t be able to use Reddit without logging in. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the impending change in a letter (PDF) to shareholders today about Q3 performance. He said that Reddit… Read more: Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says

Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expected Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result

Enterprises are learning that no-code apps deliver the most value when the people closest to the work build them. As AI agents arrive inside work management platforms, the harder task is getting employees comfortable enough… Read more: HPE cuts executive status meetings with no-code apps built on monday.com

E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarter Amazon offered a mixed picture of its financial health on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report. The e-commerce… Read more: Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report

Wabi Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for consumers, today announced that it has raised $55 million in funding. IVP led the seed round with contributions from Amazon Alexa Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and… Read more: Wabi reels in $55M for its consumer-focused AI assistant

President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of imposing new tariffs on such robot… Read more: Trump declares robot imports a national security threat

The Pentagon inspector general’s office declined a request from US senators to investigate restrictions recently imposed on the Ukraine military’s use of SpaceX’s satellite network. Ukraine, which uses SpaceX’s Starlink service and the military version… Read more: Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine

Microsoft is beginning the rollout of a Windows 11 preview update that finally addresses a persistent power user complaint with the operating system: the right-click menu that obliterated years of muscle memory on command locations,… Read more: Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides

Erin is in her early 40s. She works part time in a demanding job and has two kids in primary school. She feels constantly exhausted, she’s often angry and feels like she can’t think like… Read more: Using ChatGPT before a medical appointment? How to get the best support for your health questions

A fiscal court meeting in Carroll County, Kentucky grew contentious when local residents started playing the sound of a data center to county officials. Spoiler: they didn’t seem to like it. As local news station… Read more: Frustrated Resident Blasts the Screeching Sound of a Data Center to a County Official During a Council Meeting, Gets Mocked

Google parent Alphabet reported its Q3 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, showing a healthy rise in revenue for the months of July to September. But the company’s stock price has taken a beating, marking one… Read more: Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads

Rather than directly converting photons into electricity, concentrated solar energy uses mirrors to turn sunlight into heat, which can then be used to drive traditional generating turbines. Up to about a decade ago, there was… Read more: Turning a solar power system into its own backup

Donald Trump apparently is so aligned with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—who has become the president’s key advisor on AI—that he ignored intelligence indicating that Huang was the target of a “Chinese spy plot,” and did… Read more: Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

Legal operations teams are finding that software built for sales pipelines can just as easily run investigations and member communications. As AI agents take on triage work, even nontechnical teams are building those workflows themselves.… Read more: Motion Picture Association runs its legal operations on a CRM built for sales

Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, might be down for as long as a month after going down for “maintenance” on Thursday. The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW),… Read more: Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for ‘Up to 4 Weeks’

Continuous close, in which a company’s books are closed every day instead of weeks after month-end, could change how accounting firms serve clients. As artificial intelligence shrinks the lag between a transaction and the advice… Read more: Continuous close could make accountants everyday business advisors

We start this week with Jason and Joseph’s article about leaked audio from a private police conference. In that audio, Flock’s CEO made all sorts of wild claims about the backlash to his company not… Read more: Podcast: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees, including Copilot and Windows staff. Here’s what the workforce changes could mean for enterprise IT teams. The post Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot appeared… Read more: Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot

Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after… Read more: Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face.

Meta’s Waddle World AI pet app brings journaling to the Philippines. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what its privacy disclosures reveal. The post Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That… Read more: Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That Journals About Your Day

Amazon’s five new Alexa devices add cameras, sleep sensing, and smart-home features. Compare prices, Alexa+ requirements, compatibility, and privacy controls. The post Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs appeared first on… Read more: Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs

Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially released in preview three… Read more: Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model

Proton plans to reassess employees’ AI skills in interviews that could affect their jobs, raising questions about AI adoption and workforce evaluations. The post Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in… Read more: Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in Balance