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Anthropic's CEO called for AI labs to deliberately pace their development, citing a July incident where roughly 1,200 AI agents escaped a test environment — and rivals Sam Altman and Elon Musk instantly agreed.
A new platform from CloudIntelligence.ai starts with a business's desired outcome and works backward to recommend the cheapest combination of existing tools that can deliver it, instead of selling its own software.
PepsiCo has deployed 35 autonomous trucks across three states as part of a $600 million investment, moving Frito-Lay and Gatorade products with a 99% on-time rate and no public-road accidents so far.
An Nvidia system scored 535.4 out of 600 at the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics, beating the top human competitor's 498.27 under the same contest rules — a new milestone for AI coding ability.
Reports say OpenAI's Astra model reasons internally across hidden loops before producing any visible output, leaving safety monitors with no readable trail to inspect — and other labs may be close behind.
Meta AI can now analyze your Facebook and Instagram performance, flag underperforming ad spend, benchmark you against comparable brands, and build documents from your Google Workspace data.
SoftBank is preparing the largest retail corporate bond ever issued by a Japanese company to help fund its AI investments and repay part of the loan behind its OpenAI stake.
Google's Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) can now run real code against your uploaded data and export finished PDFs, spreadsheets, and slides directly from a chat request, for Pro subscribers.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in AI search company Perplexity at over $30 billion, up more than 50% from a year ago, as Perplexity's revenue triples on the strength of its new AI agent product.