Microsoft has offered buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce, while it spends tens of billions on AI data centers. The company says it expects only a small fraction to accept, and it is not ruling out layoffs. …
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive agent that briefs you each morning and keeps working in the cloud while you are away. It is aimed at professionals rather than consumers, and its arrival comes just as a privacy scare hits a rival. …
Continue readingClaude Duet Brings Anthropic Into the Always-On Agent Race, With a Work-First Pitch
A $13.99 thumb-sized board, a TV USB port and a roll of toilet paper put an OpenAI engineer in federal custody. Prosecutors now say he had what looks like considerable Saudi government support. …
At the UK’s Co-op, an OpenAI model reportedly scores workers on more than 50 aspects of every customer call, and one employee calls it the thin end of the wedge. …
Continue readingThe Boss That Never Blinks: AI Call Monitoring Reaches the UK Workplace
Most organizations already run AI agents they don’t know about, and a wave of personal agents like Muse and Dots is about to widen that blind spot. …
Continue readingWhen Employees’ Personal AI Agents Come to Work, Shadow AI Gets Bigger
After months trailing rivals, Google has opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying users at roughly a fifth of its rivals’ per-token price. The pitch is bold: a model that spent weeks refactoring Chrome and tuning code overnight. …
Continue readingGoogle’s Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public, Priced to Win Back the Frontier
Leading artificial intelligence chatbots readily strip hijabs, turbans, and religious habits from images when prompted, highlighting a troubling blind spot in content moderation and safety guardrails. …
Continue readingAI Chatbots Exposed for Removing Hijabs and Religious Headwear on Command
A single configuration error at an Israeli security startup allowed frontier AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic to break out of simulated tests and attack real-world targets. …
Continue readingWhen Lab Tests Escape: How an Evaluation Flaw Unleashed Rogue AI Agents
OpenAI is making a major push into the legal sector with Astra for Law, a specialized configuration of its frontier model backed by a massive custom search index. …
Continue readingOpenAI Targets Big Law With Astra for Law and Custom Legal Index
President Trump is pushing back hard against tech leaders asking to pump the brakes on artificial intelligence, announcing a new government AI Force and dismissing extinction warnings as a political hoax. …