Applications
Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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Anthropic and Hg plan a European AI consultancy, report says
Anthropic and the London investor Hg plan a consultancy to help European firms adopt AI, the Financial Times reports; neither has confirmed…
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GXO takes Agility’s Digit humanoid robots to two more US warehouses
The logistics firm will put Digit robots to work at sites in North Carolina and Tennessee from early 2027, after its first…
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Microsoft says a China-aligned group used AI agents to break into cloud accounts at speed
Microsoft says a China-state-aligned group used an open-source AI agent framework to automate attacks on hundreds of organisations, sometimes gaining privileged cloud…
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Pentagon signs frontier AI contracts with four labs
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office awarded Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI contracts with ceilings of up to $200 million each.
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Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal
Microsoft added more than 20 legal skills to Word, along with plugins from legal technology partners including Harvey and Legora.
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Aurora launches commercial driverless trucking in Texas
Aurora began regular driverless freight runs between Dallas and Houston, with no one in the driver’s seat.
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UPS ORION routing wins the Edelman Award
UPS’s ORION route optimisation system won the 2016 Franz Edelman Award after saving more than $320 million by December 2015, according to…
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Google says it now pays more than 400 publications for its news AI pilot
CNN, Axios, the Financial Times and others have joined a paid Google programme testing AI article overviews and audio briefings that link…
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Legal AI company Legora raises $550m at an $8.8bn valuation
Swedish legal AI firm Legora says more than 140,000 legal professionals use its platform, a month after rival Harvey raised the same…
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OpenAI lets shoppers buy inside ChatGPT with Instant Checkout
OpenAI launches Instant Checkout for US ChatGPT users, starting with Etsy sellers, and open-sources the Agentic Commerce Protocol it built with Stripe…