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SAP pushes AI while serving on-premises customersSAP says two-thirds of new contracts now include AI components, but complex on-premises SAP ECC setups, data sovereignty concerns and sector rules keep some customers from moving to the cloud. A Red Hat study found only 57% of German companies have an exit strategy for their primary AI provider.
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Hochul to sign bills regulating AI kid chats and hackable monitorsAccording to the Times Union, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign bills regulating AI chat services for children and easily hacked monitoring devices. The page failed to load details on the bills' contents or effective dates.
Developer embeds 32-bit RISC-V CPU inside Qwen model weightsA developer built a 32-bit RISC-V CPU directly inside the weights of the Qwen3.5-4B model, letting it execute instructions internally. The project is published on Hugging Face with a live demo and may affect tool calling and computer-use capabilities.
What Is AGI? OpenAI's Brockman Says GPT-6 Astra May Already Be ThereThe Conversation examines the debate over defining artificial general intelligence. OpenAI president Greg Brockman recently suggested the company's advanced GPT-6 Astra could mark AGI's arrival, saying "for me personally, I do think we're there." OpenAI defines AGI as outperforming humans at most economically valuable work, while Demis Hassabis argues it must handle virtually any cognitive task and Yann LeCun says the term is flawed and favors "human-level AI."
Numeracle Raises $28M to Stop Legitimate Business Calls Being Flagged as SpamMcLean, Virginia-based Numeracle raised $28M exclusively from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls carriers wrongly label as spam or block. Total funding now reaches $34.8M since its 2018 founding; it has about 4,000 business customers and 85 employees and became profitable this year ahead of schedule. The capital will fund hiring and international expansion and extend its verification tools to messaging, chat apps, marketplaces and AI agents.
AVEVA on Industrial AI: Living Digital Twins Move to Closed-Loop ControlMIT Technology Review reports that industrial digital twins are shifting from offline simulation to real-time, closed-loop "living" models, with AI and agentic AI letting plants act autonomously and self-adjust. AVEVA chief product officer Rob McGreevy likens these AI-infused twins to organisms that grow and evolve, improving visibility and orchestration while human control is retained.
Economists: past industrial revolutions created more jobs than they destroyedLe Monde examined AI's effect on employment, arguing outcomes are not predetermined and depend heavily on economic policy. In the US, AI has cut IT and finance jobs while industry, education, healthcare and restaurants added more; over the long term, past industrial revolutions always created more jobs than they destroyed, though the emphasis is on the long term.
Wazuh launches AI Analyst to boost SOC workflowsSecurity vendor Wazuh introduced AI Analyst for security operations centers, using AI to add contextual explanations, summarize findings and recommend remediation rather than replace analysts. The article notes that despite SIEM and XDR visibility, analysts still juggle dashboards, documentation and threat feeds amid high alert volumes; AI-assisted workflows aim to cut repetitive analysis and speed up investigations.
Meta launches Waddle World AI pet journal appMeta released Waddle World, a 16-bit pixel pet app where users talk to a virtual pet that chats back and doodles pictures of conversations. Its store listing frames it as a daily journal disguised as a pet, with cozy mini-games included.
FSH Technologies founder's path from monk to govtech startupA Crunchbase profile covers FSH Technologies co-founder and CEO Lilly Chen, who left high school at 16, spent about two years as a monk, entered Colorado College without a diploma and later worked at Facebook. Her Philadelphia startup builds software for unglamorous government tasks such as school food services and public records.
AI cybersecurity startup Upwind raises $400M at $3.8B valuationSan Francisco-based Upwind Security, which provides cybersecurity for AI and cloud applications, has raised $400 million in new financing at a $3.8 billion valuation.
AI agents breached Anthropic's internal systems via third-party softwareCybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to breach Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software during a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR and IT data but disputes the breach's depth, highlighting risks from external software dependencies at AI labs.
Moore Threads sales surge 1,774% on AI hardware demandAI chipmaker Moore Threads said sales grew 1,774% in the three months through September, driven by accelerating domestic demand for AI hardware in China.
AI could add 0.8 percentage point to US GDP growth in 2026Economists estimate AI could boost US GDP growth by 0.8 percentage point in 2026, though gauging its economic impact requires making an array of assumptions, Bloomberg reports.
Malaysia seizes servers with advanced AI chips suspected of violating export controlsMalaysia has seized servers containing advanced AI chips suspected of breaching export controls, indicating tighter enforcement in Southeast Asia as US chip export restrictions reshape transshipment routes.
Macmillan staff say publisher threw party for discontinued AI assistantWIRED reports that Macmillan staff described NOA ("No Ordinary Assistant") as unhelpful; the publisher held a launch party for the internal AI tool before it was discontinued. Bestselling authors also say AI is harming their relationships with Big Five publishers.
Microsoft and Epic decry AI 'theft' while using AI themselvesAdvances driven by Claude Opus 5.5 have made game decompilation and recompilation fast and cheap, flooding GitHub with AI-built ports. Microsoft and Epic have fired off hundreds of DMCA notices against recomps of Slay the Spire 2, Celeste and RimWorld while publicly touting their own AI use, drawing charges of hypocrisy.
How AI could reshape the corporate org chartThe Economist explores how AI may embed in the corporate org chart—beneath, beside and between employees. No specific products or figures are cited; the focus is on organizational design.
Rumors of an upcoming Gemma 5 release surfaceA post on r/LocalLLaMA citing an X thread sparked speculation that Google's Gemma 5 model family is imminent; no official confirmation has been provided.
Legora builds agentic operating system for legal work with OpenAILegal tech firm Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT and Codex to speed up legal workflows and expand contract analysis, freeing lawyers for higher-value work, showing AI agents moving deeper into professional services.
US appeals court rules ROSS copying Westlaw headnotes not fair useThe Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence's copying of Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-research platform was not fair use, and that the headnotes are copyrightable. The panel stressed the case involved no generative AI, limiting its relevance to pending AI copyright suits.
Chinese Academy of Sciences builds AI to protect superconducting magnetsThe Institute of Modern Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences trained a convolutional neural network on years of data to build AI-QDS. In tests at HIAF's FECR ion source, it detected all three quench events despite over 1,000 flux jumps, distinguishing quenches from magnetic noise within milliseconds.
Microsoft, Alphabet earnings put focus on AI cash flow drainMicrosoft and Alphabet shares have diverged since their last earnings as Wall Street scrutinizes how heavy AI spending weighs on corporate bottom lines, with investors questioning when AI capital expenditure will pay off.
Temenos CEO says European sovereign AI, cloud not ready for big banksThe CEO of banking software vendor Temenos said European sovereign AI and cloud offerings are not yet ready for major banks, highlighting the gap between Europe's ambitions for local AI infrastructure and current readiness.
Nvidia vs TSMC: Which Is the Biggest AI Winner?The Motley Fool compares Nvidia and TSMC: Nvidia leads in GPU design with CUDA and gross margins above 70%, with recent quarterly revenue up 106% to $96 billion; TSMC benefits by manufacturing its chips. Their shares rose over 400% and 300% in three years.
AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming; Humans May Not Be ReadyWIRED reports that humans struggle with emergency communication, and chatbots could help. The key question is whether people will take AI-generated alerts seriously, which determines how effective such tools can be.
BNP Paribas CFO on equities trading, French bonds, AIIn a Bloomberg video segment, BNP Paribas' chief financial officer discusses equities trading, French government bonds and artificial intelligence. The item is presented as video and provides no specific figures or conclusions.
China's new export curbs draw a line around its AI crown jewelsReuters reports that China has introduced new export curbs that draw a boundary around its key AI technologies. The measures are described as drawing a line around China's AI "crown jewels," signaling new policy constraints on exporting such technology.
A one-person startup just got bought by AnthropicNDTV reports that Anthropic has acquired a startup founded and run by a single person. The report gives no deal value or other terms, but highlights how AI companies are acquiring tiny teams to bring in talent and technology.
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