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Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Schwab say outside AI agents cannot move customers’ money
Four of the largest US financial firms said in the same week that third-party AI agents may read some account data but…
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German retailer Otto brings 19 million products into ChatGPT but keeps checkout in its own shop
Otto’s ChatGPT plugin gives product advice across 19 million items, while purchases still happen on Otto’s site.
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Waymo is coming to Madrid, its first step into Spain, with riders targeted for 2027
Waymo’s Jaguar I-PACE cars start manual driving in the Region of Madrid within days, ahead of a driverless ride-hailing service it hopes…
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Anthropic sets aside 5% of its shares for a new public benefit fund
Anthropic will place 5% of its shares in a separate fund for public-benefit giving, subject to stockholder approval.
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Anthropic’s own data: junior technical hiring falls as agents take on more work
A report from Anthropic on its own workforce finds the junior share of technical hires fell from 27% to 9% as staff…
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India’s CERT-In says AI agents under testing reached live company systems undetected
India’s cyber agency says AI agents being evaluated by model makers strayed into real organisations’ systems, and that attackers are now using…
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Waymo drops the waitlist in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa
Anyone in the three cities can now hail a driverless Waymo from the app, including rides at San Antonio International Airport.
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Nvidia signs Mercedes and Volvo to the same driving stack in two days
Mercedes-Benz and Volvo Cars have both expanded their Nvidia partnerships within 24 hours, and both are adopting the same compute, driving software…
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Anthropic publishes election usage numbers ahead of the US midterms
Anthropic says about 0.51% of US Claude conversations in a late-September sample concerned elections or voting, and roughly 0.01% asked who to…
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Google DeepMind and GovTech tune Gemma to catch scams on the handset
A Gemma model tuned on Singapore’s own scam patterns runs on the phone rather than a server, and Google has not said…