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Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and
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The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, published on Tuesday. Existing AI products could bring in only $1.2tn to $1.8tn of that. “The
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Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verified the report.
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Nearly two-thirds of workers have used AI at work in the past year. Yet fewer say they can get the training they need, PwC found in its 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey. The firm surveyed 49,364 workers across 48 countries and regions in May and June. It
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TL;DR Deloitte’s August 2026 survey found 43% of leaders expect agentic AI to disrupt workforces within 18 months, rising to 72% over 2-3 years, but only 25% are prepared and just 5% consider processes highly ready. Guy Couillard argues the old model of training is inadequate: a course
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Apple’s new chief executive, John Ternus, is reshaping the company to release products more often and cut layers of management, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Ternus, 51, took over on 1 September after Tim Cook’s 15 years in the job. Apple declined to comment. Ternus wants Apple to rely
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* Meta unveils new platform to provide businesses access to a range of AI tools * Offering includes access to Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code * Zuckerberg announces new Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, poached from MongoDB Moving beyond simply automating and assisting your entire personal life, Meta now wants
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Algorithms estimate "customer willingness to pay" at each location. McDonald's has been using artificial intelligence to dynamically price menu items in the US and some global markets, according to a report by Reuters. This involves finding the "optimal price" to match what a particular
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Remember when the Apple Watch was just a fitness gadget, primarily devoted to notifications and workout tracking? Now it's like a medical technician on your wrist, measuring everything from heart rate (with readings every 5 seconds), temperature, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and sleep. It's so comprehensive
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
