
The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic
New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.

“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.

More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is “way faster” and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into AI-assisted development, also notes that the refresh was “vibe coded.” “Programming is hard,” Epic says in […]

Are legions of smart devices – fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs – conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]

Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It’s called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an “agentic, conversational voice layer” that “fully understands a seller’s menu and listens and responds in real […]

Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detection feature in Google Messages, a new “enhanced protection” setting will be rolling out in the coming weeks that taps into cloud-based […]

Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they’ve found a new, cost-effective way to make more accurate weather forecasts two to six weeks in advance – allowing farmers and emergency responders […]

OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company’s operations in Asia. The […]

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Scimplify’s annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.

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The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.

Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.

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Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.

AI lab discovered a recording device concealed behind a television in a conference room

Ignore the doomsayers, this technology has transformed the game for the better and it can do the same for education

Co-founder eyes insurers’ vast capital for loans as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider seeks to fund the data centre build-out

An initiative is needed to bring banks, regulators and companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic to the table to develop the technology

Sharpening the AI tools at its disposal could improve outcomes and potentially enable the dating app to get people to pay

In this comprehensive coding tutorial, we explore Meta’s Rebalancer assignment solver using its C++ core and Python bindings. Learn how to build datacenters, manage task placements across racks, handle constraints and goal priorities, and compare local search against the exact HiGHS solver using published benchmarks.
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Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, 1M-context agent models. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta Model API. Wonder Full, on Muse Code plans, leads DeepSWE and SWE-Marathon.
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Google has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. The sparse MoE model writes up to 1M output tokens and leads the Vals Index at 68.90%.
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Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.

AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons.

Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.

The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte. Afterward, I sat on a park bench reading a book, called up a pal to chat about her recent trip to […]

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web […]

More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company’s agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify’s catalog. (The catalog consists […]

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a “sophisticated recording device” hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department […]

Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” a feature it first launched on Instagram.

Flox’s edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.