The rise of deepfakes and how to stop them
FT AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä steps inside the world of deepfakes
FT AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä steps inside the world of deepfakes
The £100 cap on contactless card spending is lifted today — but digital wallets matter more for future growth
It’s expanding the scope of research but challenging the profession’s process of weeding out mistakes
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
An explosion in industry salaries has resulted in top talent leaving the public sector
Guest authors Bob Morse of Strattam Capital and Dario Fanucchi of Isazi, share their theory on why so many AI pilots fail, believing that the best solution to see measurable business improvements involves varying the tools until one moves the dial in a sustainable way.
The workforce holding everything together in the Middle East—cleaners, drivers and more—still seem invisible when they really shouldn’t be.
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Longtime HR and DEI pioneer Ted Childs died earlier this week, and HR leaders are remembering him for his vision and influence.
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Leadership structures are evolving as rapidly as the world around us, and businesses should be careful not to leave tomorrow’s leaders behind due to the growing middle-management gap.
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Start with the problem, not the tool. That’s the AI scaling differentiator, according to new CHRO Association research.
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Workforce agility is now an explicit priority in many organizations. Leaders want faster reskilling, faster redeployment and more responsive workforce planning as strategy evolves. Yet, HR—the function charged with enabling that agility—cannot always shift its own focus when priorities change. The result is a gap between the agility the business expects and what HR can […]
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Rising employer premiums slashed growth in workers’ paychecks, New York Fed economists say.
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The NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is Jensen Huang’s answer to the question enterprises keep asking: how do we put AI agents to work without losing control of our data and our liability? Announced at GTC 2026 in San Jose on March 16, the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is an open-source software stack designed to help enterprises and […]
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Payments rely on a simple model: a person decides to buy something, and a bank or card network processes the transaction. That model is starting to change as Visa tests how AI agents can initiate payments. New work in the banking sector suggests that, in some cases, software agents may soon take on that role. […]
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The scaling of inference-time compute has become a primary driver for Large Language Model (LLM) performance, shifting architectural focus toward inference efficiency alongside model quality. While Transformer-based architectures remain the standard, their quadratic computational complexity and linear memory requirements create significant deployment bottlenecks. A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Princeton University, Together […]
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In this tutorial, we explore how to solve differential equations and build neural differential equation models using the Diffrax library. We begin by setting up a clean computational environment and installing the required scientific computing libraries such as JAX, Diffrax, Equinox, and Optax. We then demonstrate how to solve ordinary differential equations using adaptive solvers […]
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Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools
After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.
Would you share your medical records with a personal trainer? How about a virtual one? Google, which this week announced it is giving Fitbit’s AI health coach the ability to read your medical records, is hoping the answer is yes, following rivals like Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft in betting that users are willing to trade […]
Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs. The Firefly Custom Models are available in public beta starting today, allowing creators and brands to train a model on their own assets to ensure generated images follow a consistent aesthetic for characters, illustrations, and photography. The tool aims […]
After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.
The company is currently letting users in the U.K. try out Alexa+ for free via an early access program.
Industry under threat from fraudsters uploading and repeatedly playing tracks created by AI to extract royalties
China is likely to be both the testing ground and a leader in the use of agents
UNLEASH America 2026 hosted its first-ever CHRO Summit, a half-day event offering HR leaders from organizations defining the future of work the opportunity to connect and learn in a collaborative environment. Emceed by Frank Congiu, EVP, Human Capital Strategy and Executive Partnerships at Randstad Enterprises, the Summit blended panels and roundtables to dig into the challenges and opportunities…
UNLEASH America returns to Las Vegas. The 2026 show kicked off with a series of inspiring, exclusive summits, featuring top HR leaders, analysts and academics. For the Talent and AI Summits on Day One of UNLEASH America 2026, CHROs from Grupo OLX and Cardinal Group joined thought leaders including David Green, Jess Von Bank, Jason Averbook, Gary Bolles, Madeline Laurano and David Francis to…
Here’s everything you need to know from UNLEASH America Day Two, featuring exclusive insights from Amy Edmondson, Peter Hinssen and Ethan Mollick.
Meta is reportedly planning on cutting about 20% of staff to fund AI investments. This could raise tough questions for HR and workers.
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A report from Autorek, a provider of AI solutions to the insurance industry has produced a report that describes operational drag in companies’ internal processes that not only affect overall efficiency but cause an impediment to the effective implementation of AI in insurance concerns. Insurance Operations & Financial Transformation 2026 [email wall] draws from a […]
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Mastercard has developed a large tabular model (an LTM as opposed to an LLM) that’s trained on transaction data rather than text or images to help it address security and authenticity issues in digital payments. The company has trained a foundation model on billions of card transactions, with the intention of expanding to hundreds of […]
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The Baidu Qianfan Team introduced Qianfan-OCR, a 4B-parameter end-to-end model designed to unify document parsing, layout analysis, and document understanding within a single vision-language architecture. Unlike traditional multi-stage OCR pipelines that chain separate modules for layout detection and text recognition, Qianfan-OCR performs direct image-to-Markdown conversion and supports prompt-driven tasks like table extraction and document question […]
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Autonomous LLM agents like OpenClaw are shifting the paradigm from passive assistants to proactive entities capable of executing complex, long-horizon tasks through high-privilege system access. However, a security analysis research report from Tsinghua University and Ant Group reveals that OpenClaw’s ‘kernel-plugin’ architecture—anchored by a pi-coding-agent serving as the Minimal Trusted Computing Base (TCB)—is vulnerable to […]
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OpenAI Japan announces the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint, introducing stronger age protections, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for teens using generative AI.
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from cancer, the story spread with the kind of validation Big Tech has long craved: proof that AI will revolutionize medicine and take on one of its deadliest diseases. The reality, as usual, is more complicated. The […]