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ChatGPT's new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you

ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.

AI Fundamentals Intact Despite Nvidia Fallout: Weaver

Michelle Weaver, head of US thematic research at Morgan Stanley, says AI fundamentals remain strong despite recent market volatility. “On both of those fronts, yes, we’re still seeing positive signals,” Weaver says on “Bloomberg Surveillance,” citing compute demand and gains from AI adoption. (Source: Bloomberg)

AI models can answer differently when told they are being watched

Large language models (LLMs), the AI systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other similar platforms, are now widely used worldwide. While the responses provided by these models can be useful in many situations, they can also change under specific conditions.

White House AI Task Force Discussed Cyber Threats, Critical Infrastructure at Second Meeting

The White House’s task force on artificial intelligence held its second meeting on Thursday, according to an administration official, focusing on implementing an accord between major AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI, reviewing the Trump administration’s voluntary framework for testing ...

Introducing ChatGPT Wallet

Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.

Uber confirms hackers stole thousands of drivers' license information in data breach

The ride-sharing giant said driver's license information stored by AI cloud company Fireworks AI was stolen during a security incident.

Most affairs don't matter except to the people involved. Ex- Nvidia CEO Jensen's blunder will rock the world

In the aftermath of Jensen Huang's resignation, not only may the AI bubble pop, but the world economy is in some peril

Elon Musk’s AI Group Guts Grok Video Generation Team

SpaceX’s artificial intelligence group has axed most of the team behind Grok Imagine, its AI tool for video and image generation, according to people familiar with the situation. Around 60 people who worked on Grok Imagine were laid off in the past week from the SpaceX Super Intelligence group, leaving only a handful of employees to keep the product alive. The tool remains available to users, though its future is uncertain without a dedicated team working on it.

Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful

Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who don't write code. It's been an interesting couple [...]

Disney Pivots to Embrace AI From Film to Parks

While remaining protective of its valuable intellectual property, Disney is infusing AI into operations across the board.

How AI Is Helping Care Teams Get Patients the Right Care, Sooner

From pediatric research to smart hospitals, AI is helping care teams spend less time on routine tasks and more time with patients.  Health systems and startups are putting it to work across healthcare, from matching patients to clinical trials to supporting radiologists, hospital teams and patients at home. Clinicians stay at the center, reviewing AI [...]

Dan Ives on Nvidia Without Jensen Huang, Microsoft Outage

Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville Ives & Co., says that Nvidia without Jensen Huang “evens the playing field” in artificial intelligence and discusses why he thinks the next CEO will be from outside the company. Ives also addresses what he calls Microsoft’s “disaster moment” with disruptions for Outlook, Teams and the Copilot AI tool. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Autonomous drones detect cracks in concrete bridges

A research team at Ruhr University Bochum is developing an autonomous flying drone that detects cracks in concrete bridges. The drone is intended to make costly, labor-intensive bridge inspections more efficient, safer and more affordable. It is being developed by David Müller and Dr. Raphael Dyrska from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Theory, alongside Patrick Herbers from the Department of Civil Engineering and Dr. Marcel Neuhausen from the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods. Rubin, the science magazine of Ruhr University Bochum, reports on the project.

Lip-reading AI fills gaps in sentences by recognizing most certain words first

Understanding speech from lip movements alone is difficult, particularly in noisy environments. A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an AI technology that first recognizes words it can identify with high confidence and then uses the surrounding context to resolve ambiguous parts of the sentence.

What we know so far about the Microsoft outage

A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

UK Retailers Are Hiring for AI and Pulling Back on Other Roles

Some of Britain’s biggest retailers are ramping up hiring for artificial intelligence and technology roles, even as rising costs force them to pull back on recruitment for other areas including in-store staff.

Mass smuggling of Nvidia AI GPUs could be the underlying cause of Jensen Huang's departure, analysts claim

Top analyst firm SemiAnalysis says it has tracked staggering 1.5 gigawatts of banned AI accelerators flowing into China.

Mass smuggling of up to 1.5 million Nvidia AI GPUs could be the underlying cause of Jensen Huang's departure, analysts claim

Top analyst firm SemiAnalysis says it has tracked staggering 1.5 gigawatts of banned AI accelerators flowing into China.

1994 Jeep Cherokee owner hacks 32-year-old car with Claude AI to pass California smog tests

An AI enthusiast managed to get his old 1994 Jeep Cherokee to pass the California smog tests thanks to the help of AI, a little electronics wiring skill, and $15 of components.

How fat are AI trading bots’ fingers?

Companies Linked to Alice Huang Invested in DeepSeek

A network of companies tied to Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy romantically involved with Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang, recently invested in Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, The Information reported. The companies, Century Litong and its parent, Shanghai-listed Jiangsu Lettall Electronics, ...

SocGen's Kabra: Semi Trade's 'YoYo' Cyclicality Supports AI Users--Not Builders

Société Générale CIB Chief US Equity Strategist Manish Kabra tells Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Tom Mackenzie he will focus on companies using AI rather than building AI in 2027, pointing to the cyclicality of the semiconductor trade. "Semis historically are always a yo-yo index. It goes up a lot. It comes down a lot," he says on The Opening Trade. "The conviction to adopt AI is feeding into hyperscalers. It's feeding into frontier labs. And that's what backwards feeds into the AI capex cycle. I think the feedback from the S&P 500 outside the tech sector is still we want to adopt AI and not ignore it." (Source: Bloomberg)

What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage

Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".

AI agents shouldn’t have to pretend to be us

Service providers from banks to online platforms need to offer a standard channel of access on fair terms

SoftBank’s failed bet on gas turbines for AI drove $3.7bn charge

Japanese group overordered small turbines for US data centres as industry shifted to more energy-efficient models

Jensen Huang’s Icarus moment

Have AI billionaires been flying too close to the sun?

Surging British tech sector helps drive UK economy

Growing adoption of AI believed to be supporting growth, stoking optimism that there could be improvements ahead

Where is Europe’s AI boom?

Squint, and it’s showing up in the data

Europe’s AI story. With Philip Lane

How AI is already reshaping Europe's economy

Watchmakers wrestle with influence of AI on buyers

Brands are under pressure to rethink how they reach consumers and ensure that searches present their products accurately and create desirability

Microsoft Labors to Fix Long Outage of Office, Outlook, Copilot

Microsoft said it was attempting to restore service to customers of Office, Copilot, and its Outlook email service after an outage took the applications offline for more than six hours for users across the globe on Thursday. The company first said it was investigating the outages shortly before ...

The rise of 'housefishing' - when does using AI go from enhancing to misleading?

Experts warn that using AI to enhance property images can go too far and mislead prospective buyers.

Meta's Muse can now make calls on your behalf (if you have a paid subscription)

The AI agent can schedule appointments, make reservations and wait on hold for you.

Huang’s fall is an indictment of founder mode at Big Tech

The risks of giving leaders free rein when AI is at the heart of the economy, national security and just about everything else are now clear

FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.

Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses — if you pay

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.

Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.

What Jensen Huang’s Exit Means for Nvidia

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO after reports of marital infidelity including an affair with a woman the US reportedly suspects is a Chinese spy. His sudden exit leaves the AI giant with an interim CEO while throwing the broader AI market into uncertainty. (Source: Bloomberg)

Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions

Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses. It's available starting today in search, the Gemini app, all tiers of Google [...]

Cisco Raises Forecast as AI Fuels Networking Demand

Cisco Systems gave a sales forecast for the current quarter that exceeded Wall Street estimates and raised its annual outlook. Woo Jin Ho has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

A third of US AI chatters are hot at bots, hurling insults at LLMs

Anthropic sets behavior standards to protect Claude from rough treatment

AI system can reconstruct aerodynamic shapes and predict their performance

The efficiency of an aircraft wing or a wind turbine blade depends on how air flows around it. Finding an optimal shape involves testing numerous designs and can be a burdensome and time-consuming process. Now, researchers at Kyushu University have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can predict the aerodynamic performance of different shapes. The AI system may allow engineers more time to explore and compare designs more efficiently.

Cisco Raises Sales Guidance in Sign of AI-Fueled Momentum

Cisco Systems Inc. gave a sales forecast for the current quarter that exceeded Wall Street estimates and raised its annual outlook, a sign the AI boom continues to fuel demand for its networking equipment.

Exploring faster language models suited to hardware implementation using reservoir computing

Large language models have transformed natural language processing through their ability to generate and interpret humanlike text. Most modern language models rely on transformer architectures, whose self-attention mechanisms provide powerful capabilities for learning relationships within long sequences. However, training and running these models can require substantial computational resources and energy, creating challenges for their wider use in embedded systems, edge devices and other environments where computing resources are limited.

OpenAI launches security products, tells orgs they’re doomed if they don’t use them

Meanwhile, a group of nonprofits sue AI giants and cite AI-driven cyberattacks

Bill Simmons Canceled ChatGPT Partnership After Fan Backlash

OpenAI has spent an estimated $11.2 million on podcast ads in the past three months, but not all podcasters want to promote the technology.

AI improves cosmic particle scans to locate hidden objects more accurately in simulations

Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science are working with the Estonian technology company GScan to develop AI-based methods that use measurement data collected with the help of cosmic particles to locate objects more accurately. The technology is useful for assessing the condition of bridges and other large structures and identifying potential damage.

How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI

Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.

No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal last year. The incident, which sparked criticism among archeologists online, underscores a [...]

How Huang’s Resignation Could Hurt US AI

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had direct access to President Donald Trump and more influence over American AI policy than any other Silicon Valley executive. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee explains the risks to the sector without its leather-jacketed champion. (Source: Bloomberg)

Google's latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions

Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash

Gemini 4 Hydrogen isn't getting a slow, security-conscious release like Carbon and Argon.

Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

Families fight to keep Google’s “disturbing” AI off school-issued Chromebooks

Families confront Google after teen’s lawsuit labels Gemini a “suicide coach.”

Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

Families confront Google after teen’s lawsuit labels Gemini a “suicide coach.”

Why professional networking is a job search asset that AI can't replace

Canned rejection emails. Job interviews conducted by AI chatbots. Hundreds of employment applications submitted with no response.

Nvidia CEO Ouster Shakes AI Economy

Get a jump start on the US trading day on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Nvidia loses the man who built its AI empire. Jensen Huang is out after a stunning boardroom shakeup, wiping hundreds of billions from Nvidia’s value and rattling the entire AI trade. We break down what comes next for the AI industry and how it’s playing out in Washington and on Wall Street. (Source: Bloomberg)

Free Chinese AI Can Hack Companies While Frontier Developers Face Diminishing Returns

Chinese AI that anyone can download for free has become good enough to break into corporate networks, said Ariel Zeitlin, co-founder and chief technology officer of Tenzai, an Israeli startup that sells hacking software for testing corporate defenses, known as continuous penetration testing. At the same time, the most advanced AI that had an early lead in cybersecurity capabilities is getting harder and costlier to improve, said Micah Hill-Smith, CEO of AI benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis. That means Chinese models won’t be far behind and makes it unlikely that any one developer pulls far ahead of its rivals.

Scalable Conversational Assessment: Chat-Based Exams with a Two-Agent LLM Pipeline

Oral exams are compelling because (1) students can be asked to provide their reasoning for an answer and (2) their interactive nature permits follow-up questions to resolve ambiguous answers. But oral exams scale poorly. In this paper, we present scalable conversational assessment, an LLM-based system that conducts interactive text-based conversations with students to assess their ability to make and support an argument. We use a two-agent architecture to separate concerns and reduce the likelihood that answers are leaked to the student: the interviewer interacts directly with the student, but only receives guidance about the next question to ask the student; the hidden evaluator knows the goals of the whole activity, tracks the student's progress using a rubric, and guides the interviewer on when to follow-up on the current question or proceed to the next question. The system was first tested using a collection of simulated students with LLM personas of a particular ability level or adversarial tactic (e.g., answer-extractors, prompt-injectors, confident fabricators). A novel element of this evaluation was that it required the use of a fictional assessment topic to prevent personas that shouldn't have information from using knowledge present in the LLM's pre-training. The system was also deployed in a small, elective AI literacy course in both formative and summative contexts. Through manual and post-facto AI review of the transcripts we identified opportunities to improve the follow-up question generation and ensure that grading only credited ideas that the student (and not the interviewer) contributed.

AI Financing Strong Despite Nvidia: Rosenbaum

Nathaniel Rosenbaum, head of US high grade strategy at JPMorgan, says Nvidia’s turmoil is unlikely to have broader ramifications for investment-grade credit, while hyperscalers continue to find financing for the AI buildout. “At the right price there will be demand for that debt,” Rosenbaum says on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen

We are bringing Gemini 4 Hydrogen to Google Search globally to provide you with more helpful, visual, and intuitive responses.

Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open-source AI after Jensen Huang's exit

Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open-source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition.

Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang's exit

Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition.

United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks

The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.

Phota Labs uses AI to turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots

Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so it’s easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better photos.

AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds

Shoppers using AI chatbots to research products or find places to buy items could be directed to imposters and other risky websites, a new study found. The study conducted by IP protection firm Podqi and shared exclusively with The Verge prompted ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with a handful of shopping-related questions involving a selection of [...]

How AI visionary Jensen Huang was undone by his own bad decisions

Zoe Kleinman explains how the man who built Nvidia from the ground up lost everything in a matter of days.

Zoe Kleinman: How AI visionary Jensen Huang was undone by his own bad decisions

Zoe Kleinman explains how the man who built Nvidia from the ground up lost everything in a matter of days.

Five ways Jensen Huang’s ouster from Nvidia could damage the AI industry

Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.

Jensen jeopardy will disrupt the AI industry

The Nvidia boss’s departure could deepen the technological rift between Washington and Beijing

United Airlines wants you to check in, not your chatbot

AI agents face restrictions over safety checks that require a human touch

Fed’s Barr Warns AI Without Guardrails Risks Widening Inequality

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr warned the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence risks deepening inequality in the near term, and policymakers need to be ready for the possibility of serious short-term disruptions in the job market.

Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395

The first Gemini smartglasses are a collab between Google, Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.

Strauss Zelnick on GTA VI, Take-Two's Turnaround and AI | The David Rubenstein Show

Take-Two Interactive Chairman & CEO Strauss Zelnick sits down with David Rubenstein to discuss the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, set for Nov. 19. He says the Grand Theft Auto franchise “is probably the most valuable intellectual property in the entertainment business” because of its enormous global reach. Zelnick also reflects on his career in entertainment, from becoming president of 20th Century Fox to leaving the movie and television business behind to bet on the emerging video game industry. He's on this week’s episode of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations. This interview was recorded October 19 in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)

Run a Process Improvement Analysis with Google Gemini

As companies grow, they necessarily adopt more complex processes to align teams and manage increased volume. But over time, these processes can become cumbersome and unwieldy, creating hidden bottlenecks that slow organizations down and incentivize employees to devise manual workarounds. And often, no one person in the enterprise has the visibility needed to figure out where things are breaking down. A process improvement analysis can root out waste and identify solutions, but this often requires hours spent poring over dense standard operating procedures (SOPs) and unstructured stakeholder interview notes. Google Gemini can accelerate this synthesis, organizing information in a way that lets human reviewers apply their own expertise to the problem more quickly. Imagine you’re a consultant leading an operations engagement, for example, and your client says that its employee onboarding process is slowing down entire departments like HR and IT. Follow these steps using Google Gemini to help transform SOPs and meeting notes into a prioritized, executive-ready roadmap for improvement. Step 1: Break Down the Existing Process The client’s SOP and your own notes from stakeholder interviews give you plenty of information to get started. Upload your materials to Gemini and type a brief prompt: Summarize the current steps, organizational roles, and key systems involved in my client’s workflow, as outlined in the attached SOP document. Answer as a process analyst, and provide your response in the form of a numbered list. Gemini will take a lengthy client SOP and deconstruct it into a list of simple steps, helping you to more clearly see inefficiencies and potential sources of friction. For an employee onboarding process, for example, these steps might include talent acquisition and background screening, entry into the HR information system, ticket generation, hardware procurement; and Day 1 setup. Step 2: Identify the Most Pressing Problems The next step is to analyze what people inside the organization are saying. You can continue your ongoing conversation with Gemini. Try this prompt: Take a look at the attached stakeholder interviews. Examine them for frequently mentioned pain points, bottlenecks, and unnecessary manual effort. Rank the top five problems. This step will likely uncover issues that are either hidden throughout your client’s SOP document or not mentioned by it at all. For example, stakeholders might note that disconnected systems are causing background checks to stretch on for multiple days, creating a cascade of other problems like delayed ticket generation. Or, the interviews might reveal that hardware batching policies designed to save on shipping expenses are actually costing the company much more in the form of idle time for new employees. Step 3: Draft Your Analysis Now, you need to frame the problem for the client’s leadership team. First, spend some time adding your own thoughts to Gemini’s initial diagnosis. Then, go to the chat window and type: Provide the first draft of a current-state analysis for my client. Highlight the inefficiencies we have previously identified and quantify their business impact. Make sure the draft uses a professional, objective tone. Gemini will translate the SOP and stakeholder input into an executive-level summary, but your own expertise is still critical. Continue the conversation to fine-tune your deliverable for tone, format, and content. Step 4: Make Your Recommendations Along with an outline of the existing problems, your client will want a detailed plan for what to do next. Try this prompt: Create a list of the 10 most readily actionable recommendations for improving the process. Categorize these action items by the level of effort required to implement them, as well as by their potential impact. Gemini might provide low-effort/high-impact solutions like modifying certain code scripts, while also suggesting high-effort/high-impact steps like building entirely new integrations or overhauling an onboarding portal. This is the stage where your expertise is the most valuable. Instead of treating the recommendations as a final draft, consider them a menu of options, carefully examining Gemini’s suggestions and testing them against your own knowledge to ensure that they will realistically solve your client’s problems. While AI can identify logical technical solutions, it takes human instinct to read a room, identify political tensions, and anticipate where specific stakeholders are most likely to push back. By applying your own business acumen to Gemini’s analysis, you can deliver recommendations that will have a real-world impact.

Jensen Huang is gone. Will the AI industry pay the price?

Nvidia chief’s fall could unravel the web of financial dependencies that helped fuel the AI boom

Nvidia's CEO was the rock star of AI before his dramatic unravelling

Within days, Huang's status as a seemingly untouchable figure leading the global AI race has crumbled.

A New Dawn in the Cloud: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV’ Is Coming to GeForce NOW

Rally the ranks this GFN Thursday. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to GeForce NOW, allowing players to experience the battle for Kronus through cloud gaming. There’s more on the horizon, with NVIDIA DLSS 5 technology coming to War Thunder and Where Winds Meet. Meanwhile, Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen brings new tales [...]

Jensen Huang, Face of the AI Boom, Ousted by Nvidia Board as CEO

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, the preeminent face of the AI infrastructure boom, was ousted from his post after reports of two affairs, including with one woman who is reportedly suspected of spying for China.

Huang, Face of the AI Boom, Ousted by Nvidia Board as CEO

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, the preeminent face of the AI infrastructure boom, was ousted from his post after reports of two affairs, including with one woman who is suspected of spying for China.

Huang Says Agentic AI Systems Need Monitoring, Containment

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the development of agentic AI systems without containment and monitoring the biggest risk he sees to the development of the technology. He spoke with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on Oct. 14, just weeks before he revealed an extramarital affair with a woman the US reportedly suspects to be a Chinese spy. (Source: Bloomberg)

AI Transformation Bigger Than Any Company, Individual, Says BlackRock’s Pyle

Mike Pyle, deputy head of the portfolio management group at BlackRock, sees the artificial intelligence market moving in a more “two-sided” moment of winners and losers in a “much more selective market environment than a directional one.” He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

The latest FreeBSD report is here, and the AI debate is ongoing

Only a minority want to ban it. Plus plenty of updates on 16 projects

Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex

Gondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer’s output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.

UN Secretary-General Warns of ‘Perfect Storm’ of Global Risks

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres explains the “perfect storm” of threats he sees creating an “enormous risk for the global society.” He also addresses the absence of the US from the Paris Agreement and the reach of artificial intelligence across the global environment. He speaks with Jennifer Zabasajja on the sidelines of COP31 in Turkey. (Source: Bloomberg)

McKinsey’s Sternfels on Corporate Crisis Management, AI Impact

McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels discusses how companies should prepare for corporate crises, from succession planning to strong and independent governance. Speaking exclusively on “The Pulse With Francine Lacqua” amid the leadership crisis at Nvidia, Sternfels also discusses how AI is reshaping McKinsey and its workforce, what CEOs are getting wrong about adopting the technology, and vulnerabilities in global trade. (Source: Bloomberg)

Maga architects blame Big Tech and AI data centres for midterms rout

Head of Heritage Foundation admits Republicans’ embrace of Silicon Valley and the effect of Donald Trump’s Iran war cost them votes

Struggling marijuana farmers pivot to becoming AI data center sites to escape falling weed revenue

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

Struggling marijuana farms pivot to becoming AI data center sites to escape falling weed revenue

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex

With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.

Your AI agent is only as good as your endpoint data

PARTNER CONTENT: Real-time endpoint data keeps AI-driven IT operations accurate, fast and under control

Rethinking Memory For AI Inference

Processing data closer to memory could reduce power and boost performance, but software, thermal, and architectural challenges remain. The post Rethinking Memory For AI Inference appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Beyond Bandwidth: AI Inference Is Reshaping The Memory Wall

Longer contexts, higher concurrency, multimodal models, and AI agents will continue changing where memory pressure appears. The post Beyond Bandwidth: AI Inference Is Reshaping The Memory Wall appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

The Semiconductor Singularity: When AI Starts Accelerating The Silicon That Accelerates AI

Use evidence from silicon to improve the tools and decisions that create the next generation of hardware. The post The Semiconductor Singularity: When AI Starts Accelerating The Silicon That Accelerates AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Designing Edge AI SoCs At Near-Threshold: Why Foundation IP Can Help You Break Down The Power Wall

Traditional voltage scaling is no longer sufficient to deliver real-time performance within tight energy and thermal limits. The post Designing Edge AI SoCs At Near-Threshold: Why Foundation IP Can Help You Break Down The Power Wall appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

The Memory Challenge Of Physical AI

Right-size the memory hierarchy around the device's data streams, reuse patterns, latency requirements, and operating constraints. The post The Memory Challenge Of Physical AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Foundation IP For The AI Era: Why Execution Shapes SoC Cost ─ eBook

How an integrated foundation IP strategy can reduce execution risk, enable faster tape-out, and lower TCO. The post Foundation IP For The AI Era: Why Execution Shapes SoC Cost ─ eBook appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Sex, spies and salaries shake up AI chipmakers

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

Mastercard Sees Agentic AI Transforming e-Commerce

Mastercard Asia Pacific President Richard Wormald says agentic AI may create a new machine-to-machine commerce channel, with its growth depending heavily on consumer trust. He spoke on Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Supplier Hon Hai Predicts Robust Growth After Profit Beat

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. predicted strong sales growth for next year due to soaring worldwide AI spending after earning a quarterly profit that beat estimates.

The AI megatrade’s mounting portfolio concentration risk problem

There aren’t enough baskets to safely cope with this many massive eggs

Huang falls out of favour in Washington

AI kingmaker’s opponents see ‘blood in the water’ after affair with suspected Chinese spy

Supporting research on AI and children’s safety

OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.

Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI

A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.

The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

United won’t let your AI agent book your flight

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash. But United is concerned [...]

Sequoia Capital to Invest in AI Holding Co. Sequence

Sequoia Capital is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Sequence Holding, a one-year-old business that just announced a $7.7 billion insurance acquisition co-led by Michael Dell’s family office, say people familiar with the matter. This will be Sequoia’s second known investment in a new category of holding companies. These aim to buy businesses in established industries such as accounting, insurance and HOA management and then replace or complement some human work with AI. The new money raised from Sequoia is likely to allow Sequence, which has been scouting for targets, to make more acquisitions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ultrasound and AI turn off-the-shelf smartwatch into full-body tracker without cameras

For the first time, researchers can track the movement of a person's entire body with ultrasonic sound waves, using just an off-the-shelf smartwatch and a lightweight artificial intelligence model—all while ensuring privacy and efficiency.

Why the data center you dread might never even be built

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there's a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure [...]

United is restricting AI agents from booking flights

The airline believes AI poses security risks and may violate DOT and FAA rules.

ByteDance is reportedly working on its own AI agent

The Chinese company wants to compete with Meta's Muse.

Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.

Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.

Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.

Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.

OpenAI and Georgia county leaders hit with Mafia-style RICO racketeering lawsuit over $30 billion AI data center

The plaintiffs alleged that the parties committed fraud and concealment through NDAs and misleading public statements.

AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease

Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.

Faithful in Steps: Improving Generalization and Citation in RAG via Query Decomposition

Retrieval-augment generation is a prevalent strategy to mitigate hallucinations of LLMs. The attributable RAG (RAGQ) generates quotes for its answers. The quotes indicate which input contexts support the RAG to derive the answers, enhancing the answer's verifiability and trustworthiness. However, existing RAGQs exhibit significant degradation when dealing with questions that require multi-hop reasoning and multi-modal understanding, suffering from over-citation, implicit entity identification failure, and poor generalization. In this paper, we propose a novel RAGQ framework, namely QDRAG. QDRAG breaks down the input question into atomic subquestions to identify the implicit entities. Then, the reranker prunes context distractors to eliminate the downstream over-citation. To facilitate query decomposition, we propose two zero-shot approaches: QD-C and QD-R, which guide the QD MLLM to decompose the question based on context knowledge and retrieval rewards, respectively. One interesting finding is that finetuning on the QD task shows better generalizability compared to directly finetuning on the downstream RAGQ task. Experiments on four multi-modal QA benchmarks demonstrate QDRAG's efficacy in grounding answers and generating faithful citations. The framework significantly outperforms all the baselines on both in-domain and out-of-domain tests, even surpassing Gemini-Pro.

The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still...

Experience the art and legacy of Dr. Esther Mahlangu

A new online archive of Esther Mahlangu’s life and art is now on Google Arts & Culture.

ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material

Vision AI and robotics pick what’s worth recovering out of conveyor belts of used clothing, bottles and mixed recyclables, diverting thousands of tons of materials from landfills.

JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini. See what’s new in this partnership.

The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a...

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout. See how it works.

Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth

AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.

Helping caregivers use AI in everyday life

OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.

Opening the datasets behind our AI weather models

Foundational precipitation and geostationary satellite datasets to observe the planet clearly.

Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT

Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.

Closing the AI guidance gap in education

New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.

Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity

Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety

Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation

Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components.  The shift from locomotion to manipulation is taking center stage at this week’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in [...]

The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made  —By Mary Nichols, distinguished counsel at the UCLA School of Law and the former chair of the California Air Resources Board,...

Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of bringing products to market. For specialty chemicals manufacturer Lubrizol, digital transformation is all about giving researchers the tools to test ideas faster, make better-informed...

Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and autonomous vehicles. These efforts are helping bring physical AI from development into real-world production. Samsung Advances Semiconductor Engineering With [...]

Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with NVIDIA OpenShell to support secure AI agents for employee productivity and enterprise workflows. A key [...]

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

IEEE Computer Society Chapter Offers Webinars With Industry Experts

To help engineers keep up with emerging technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and sustainable infrastructure, and learn how they can be applied in practice, the IEEE Computer Society’s Central Indiana Chapter recently launched its Tech Talk Series.The live webinar series connects IEEE members, undergrad and graduate students, and engineering professionals from IEEE Region 4 with industry practitioners. The monthly sessions have covered AI governance and security, agentic systems, and related topics. The sessions featured speakers from Apple, software company Tavant, and cybersecurity concern Zscaler.Upcoming sessions and registration details are available on the IEEE Region 4 virtual events calendar.Technical discussions grounded in engineeringRather than presenting on emerging technologies only at a conceptual level, speakers discussed the design decisions behind specific tools and systems, how the systems are structured, and implementation challenges. They also shared lessons learned from using the tools in their daily work.Sessions also include technical walkthroughs and practical examples.The live format allows attendees to discuss and compare their approaches when evaluating and implementing new technologies with those used by other organizations.Extending access through a virtual formatThe organizers chose to make the series virtual so that chapter members and other attendees could participate in technical discussions with engineers from major technology companies and eliminate the need to travel.For young professionals, the sessions connect what they’ve learned in a classroom with the realities of the workplace.Technical programs such as the Tech Talk Series give professionals and students access to expertise, help create connections across career levels, and make important engineering discussions available to a broader community.Attendees learn how practitioners approach projects such as system architecture, reliability, security, governance, and product delivery. For experienced professionals, the talks offer a forum to examine new ways of designing, securing, and operating software systems, and compare technical approaches. They can ask questions relevant to systems being evaluated or deployed within their organization.Examining governed AI agentsThe most recent webinar, Feeding and Fencing AI Agents: Engineering Governed Agentic Systems on Real-Time Data, featured Gajendra Babu Thokala, a senior engineering leader at Apple in Seattle.The IEEE senior member explained how teams can move beyond adding isolated AI features to applications and instead build governed AI-agent systems that use real-time business data to complete multistep business workflows.Another recent session, Building AI Native Products: A Playbook for Agentic Systems, explored how products built around AI agents differ from traditional software. It also covered how agentic systems can help users complete multistep tasks and workflows. IEEE Senior Member Sandeep Shivam, a product and technology leader at Tavant in Dallas, led the webinar.Those two sessions illustrate the series’ purpose: helping participants understand what a technology can do and what is required to use it responsibly.Building a continuing technical programFuture sessions are being planned on areas including enterprise AI, software reliability, and responsible AI usage. In addition to speakers from technology companies, the chapter also plans to invite speakers from startups, universities, and research organizations.Upcoming sessions are expected to cover cloud platforms, enterprise integrations, and the responsible development of AI systems. Technical programs such as the Tech Talk Series give professionals and students access to expertise, help create connections across career levels, and make important engineering discussions available to a broader community.Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate to gain exposure to technical decision-making and challenges encountered in professional engineering environments.