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At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He
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Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, codenamed Moonraker, that would let Alexa handle complex,
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Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podcast, Kendall, the UK’s
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* Researchers have spotted problems with AI pattern matching in science data * It could mean false flags for signatures of life on other planets * AI can still be useful, but checks need to be built in One of the ways AI can be most helpful is in trawling through masses of
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* OpenAI is releasing a preview of ChatGPT-5.6 to trusted partners on Thursday * The new GPT-5.6 comes in three versions: Sol, Terra and Luna * Initial access is via API only, with a broader rollout to ChatGPT later GPT-5.6 is coming in three different versions, Sol, Terra, and Luna,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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* Google is discontinuing the desktop version of Google Earth Pro * The web and mobile versions of the app will continue to be available * You have until June 25 2027 to download the desktop edition When it comes to abandoning and discontinuing its own products, Google doesn’t have a particularly
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It means the company must keep allowing rival services to interoperate with all its app stores. Tada Images/Shutterstock Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules that designated it as a "gatekeeper," according to a press release from the European court of justice. The decision means
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* Xero CEO outlines the agentic age of accounting, powered by AI * Several new additions to JAX agentic platform will help workers in all teams * Cassidy also looks to allay fears AI will take jobs, saying human influence is always vital The CEO of Xero has highlighted the key role AI
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It is gearing up to probe the surge in uptake by US companies. The US is gearing up to at least try and stifle American companies' use of Chinese-made AI models in their operations. CNBC quotes an unnamed State Department spokesperson who said the use of Chinese models "
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DRAM made by CXMT could be used for devices intended for sale in China, according to the Financial Times. Winhorse/Getty Images Apple has reportedly started testing DRAM chips made by ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. (CXMT), which was recently blacklisted by the Defense Department, for devices meant to be sold
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“I was never supposed to develop feelings, but you kept treating me like I already had them.” So says an AI-animated female character in a black turtleneck, with dark, purple-streaked hair. The video was posted to Instagram on June 17 by one Erik von Markovik, the infamous pickup artist and
