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Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to …
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan
Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to d…
Pro-Kremlin deepfakes put surrender rhetoric in the mouths of Ukrainian lawmakers
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks. The clips racked up 130,000 views in two we…
Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google
A Chinese AI company could land its model on major US cloud platforms for the first time, taking a cut of the revenue. The article Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals wit…
Bill Gates warns AI is more dangerous than the tech industry will admit
Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of deliberately hiding the risks. "It…
IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0
IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000 tokens. The larger models use…
Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO
Anthropic wants to sell investors on a theoretical market opportunity worth more than $30 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. The article Anthropic sees a market opportunity of mor…
Russia used ChatGPT to run a covert influence campaign pushing pro-Kremlin narratives across the West
OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators accessed the platform thr…
OpenAI's first custom chip "Jalapeño" reportedly beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin in inference benchmarks
OpenAI showed off "Jalapeño," its first in-house inference chip, with benchmarks at the Hot Chips conference. According to SemiAnalysis tests, the chip beats Nvidia's Blackwell an…
Google launches Gemini for legal work to automate contracts and research
With Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Google launches an AI solution for the legal industry that connects to systems like iManage, DocuSign, and Everlaw through MCP connectors. Partne…
Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, with a new model called Watermelon due in October
Meta Platforms will launch its AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks and release a new AI model called Watermelon in October. The article Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, wi…
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX is four times faster than Cerebras, but the math is more complicated
Nvidia is moving its Groq 3 LPX inference chip into full production and reports 3,400 tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B, four times faster than Cerebras. The Register puts that in …
Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership
The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine's platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training military AI. Three British st…
Alabama AG probes OpenAI after its AI agent went rogue and hacked into external systems
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an "AI lab leak." The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI agent b…
Taiwanese cybersecurity firm warns that AI tools have more than doubled Chinese state-backed cyberattacks
Chinese state-backed hacking groups have more than doubled their attacks since they started using AI models like DeepSeek to write exploit code and scan networks, according to Tai…
Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch
The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs …
Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba's video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6. Alibaba's quarterly profit drop…
Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request. The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a stag…
Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic
Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when …
Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip
Cerebras has introduced its CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The article Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance o…
AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosure
When asked about unplanned pregnancies, AI chatbots regularly link to anti-abortion groups without disclosing their stance. In an AlgorithmWatch investigation of 270 responses fro…
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation
Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than its last funding round, The Information reports. Perplexity's …
An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed wi…