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In Brief 7:51 AM PDT · September 9, 2026 Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, is the latest delivery app to join the AI cart race. The company announced on Wednesday that its new “Ask Shipt” tool will help customers shop more intuitively and turn prompts into customized
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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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More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group of companies, with smaller and open-source developers largely
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TL;DR Haier’s IFA 2026 stand replaces the usual feature-list chaos with a design-first smart home environment. Aura Collection\’s light-reactive grey finish unifies ovens, hobs and hoods into one visual plane. Multi Care Laundry Studio fits four independent drums in a 598mm-deep unibody. Maestro refrigeration uses AI to
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Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Concordium Foundation today announced the appointment of Per Ansgar, Chief Executive Officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to
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For decades, enterprise software has been designed primarily to record what businesses already know: customer information, financial transactions, employee activity, inventory, sales pipelines, and operational decisions. These platforms became the systems of record that organizations relied on to maintain a consistent version of the truth. Artificial intelligence is beginning to
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The last two years rewired how software gets made. AI went from autocomplete to writing entire features, and autonomous agents now build and ship software with barely a human in the loop. Every engineering organization on the planet is asking the same question: what does this mean for how we
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Analog Devices has agreed to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.35bn in cash, with up to $200m more contingent on performance, adding a line of microcontrollers built to run neural networks inside devices rather than send data to a data centre. The deal was announced today, and it is expected
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Amazon has opened books on its first sterling bonds, a four-part deal running from three to 19 years, adding another currency to a borrowing programme that has already raised the equivalent of more than $92bn this year. The sale was reported by Reuters on Wednesday, with pricing expected the same
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The Pentagon’s most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s
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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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The adoption of AI tools by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data at 70,000 companies collected by the payments company Ramp. The latest survey shows 56% of Ramp customers paid for AI products in August, rising just 0.4% from the month before. This isn’t the
