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America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
The outcome of these trends has huge implications for workers, wealth and the future of America’s economy.
How to futureproof your IT team in the AI era
IT professionals and leaders need to adapt as AI disrupts traditional roles. Here’s how CIOs can lead the transformation.
Swiss AgTech scale-up Ecorobotix raises €128 million in total to scale AI-driven sustainable farming
Yverdon-les-Bains-based Ecorobotix, an innovator in AI-powered Ultra-High Precision (UHP) spraying, has announced their €90 million Series D to transform
ABB to Spin Off Robotics Division to SoftBank in $5.4 Billion Deal
ABB has agreed to sell its Robotics division to SoftBank for $5.4 billion, positioning the unit for the next phase of innovation in physical AI.
One Mass. health system is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some don’t like it
Mass General Brigham has turned to AI to address a critical shortage of primary care doctors, launching an AI app that questions patients, reviews medical records, and produces a list of...
Australian start-up completes world-first remote robotic surgery
Remedy Robotics plans trials to treat NT stroke patients from thousands of kilometres away.
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor’s largest investments.
How to use AI-written code in without intellectual property issues
If you’re going to use AI at work, you’d better be sure the code it writes doesn’t put your business at risk
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With
Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you’ve considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.
AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): A New Paradigm in LLM Inference via Runtime-Learning Accelerators
LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual...
DEEP Robotics Launches World’s First All-Weather Industrial Humanoid Robot · TechNode
China-based DEEP Robotics has unveiled the DR02, an industrial-grade humanoid robot that it says is the first in the world to achieve full-body IP66
AI Push Drives Record Job Cuts at Top India Private Employer TCS
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward artificial intelligence reshape the country’s $280 billion IT services sector.
Hollywood-AI battle heats up, as OpenAI and studios clash over copyrights and consent
OpenAI’s Sora 2 has ignited a firestorm in Hollywood, as studios, talent agencies and unions push back against the tech company’s advances.
Startup Battlefield company SpotitEarly trained dogs and AI to sniff out common cancers and will show off its tech at Disrupt
The company’s at home multi-cancer breath test kit is expected to be available to consumers in 2026.
Google to Invest USD 10 Billion in Andhra Pradesh; TCS Plans USD 6–7 Billion for AI Infrastructure
Google will invest USD 10 billion (Rs 88,730 crore) to set up its largest data centre outside the US in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Horizon Surgical Systems performs world’s first robotic-assisted cataract surgery
Horizon Surgical Systems announced the completion of the world’s first robotic-assisted cataract surgery with its Polaris micro-robotic and AI-supported platform.
The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom
Here’s everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
Creators Will Be Vital In Retraining The Workforce For AI, Report Finds
ThriveCart’s 2025 report shows creators bridging the AI skills gap as universities meet just 0.2% of demand, powering a $600B market.
The new space race is about data centers, not astronauts
AI’s rising energy hunger is pushing engineers to look toward space solutions
Microsoft secures 100,000 Nvidia GB300 chips via $33 billion deal
AI data center growth has pushed U.S. energy prices up 267%
The new token economy: Why inference is the real gold rush in AI
A $5 million AI system can earn $75 million in tokens. Inference is now the engine of AI — and Blackwell leads the charge.
Why Deloitte is betting big on AI despite a $10M refund
AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it’s rolling out Anthropic’s Claude to all 500,000 employees. On the...
What is Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chipmaker entangled in US-China trade tensions?
Tech giant Nvidia has been caught in the middle of international trade tensions as the standoff between the United States and China continues to escalate.
Apple nears deal to acquire talent and technology from computer vision startup Prompt AI
Apple is in late-stage talks with startup Prompt AI to bring on the company’s employees and its computer vision technology.
Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence
Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple...
Artificial Intelligence Models In Financial Services: Emerging Issues And Areas Of Risk
This article explores the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in the financial services industry, and discusses emerging risks and regulatory challenges. It examines how…
THE WISE, THE GOOD, THE POWERFUL
Published on October 9, 2025 5:49 PM GMT PART 1: THE UNEDEREXPLORED PROSPECTS OF BENEVOLENT SUPERINTELLIGENCES WELCOME TO THE SERIES – START HERE This trilogy explores what happens AFTER we...
Powering The AI Future
AI’s rising energy demands spur mitigation: colocated data centers, carbon-aware responses, nuclear debate, human-centered reliability.
OpenAI Calls Codex a Senior Engineer
For the first time, OpenAI publicly called an AI agent a senior engineer. The data backs up the claim : 92% adoption & 70% productivity gains.
Paper page – Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents
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Paper page – Evolution Strategies at Scale: LLM Fine-Tuning Beyond Reinforcement Learning
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Microsoft Azure Unveils World’s First NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Supercomputing Cluster for OpenAI
New state-of-the-art platform enables next-generation AI model development and deployment while furthering American leadership in AI.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2 billion in funding, boosts valuation to $8 billion
(Reuters) -Reflection AI, a startup backed by Nvidia, said on Thursday it has raised $2 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $8 billion, as investor...
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ABB Invests in LandingAI to Apply Generative AI to Robotic Vision
The investment aims to achieve a reduction in robot vision deployment time of up to 80% and targets the logistics, healthcare and food and beverage manufacturing sectors.
Gemini Enterprise: Google aims to put an AI agent on every desk
Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise, a new platform it calls “the new front door for AI in the workplace”.
In 2025 so far, 40% of VC exit value stems from AI, according to PitchBook
PitchBook data says it’s all happening in AI.