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Anthropic shuts down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models under U.S. export controls
Anthropic abruptly disabled its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a U.S. export‑control directive, underscoring the vulnerability of firms that depend on closed‑source AI services. The move triggered a sharp rally in Chinese open‑source offerings as investors shifted to downloadable models that can run on‑premise.
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By the numbers: Respond raises $62.5M Series B
Kingly Studio Unveils Leviathan AI Agent Orchestration Platform for Enterprise Automation
Kingly Studio announced the Leviathan platform, an AI‑agent orchestration framework built for structured, deterministic workflows and enterprise‑grade auditability. Co‑founder and CTO Jean‑Patrick Smith leads the effort, positioning Leviathan as a bridge between cutting‑edge AI research and large‑scale corporate automation.
Albert Heijn Reduces Bakery Waste Using AI
Albert Heijn is launching AI‑driven dynamic pricing in its bakery aisles across the Netherlands. The internally built “Bake” system forecasts store‑level bread demand and adjusts prices in real time, with discounts up to 70% as the day progresses. The initiative...
OpEd: Hallucinations Aren't the Big Insult in SA's Draft AI Policy
South Africa’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy is essentially a non‑policy, filled with vague language and six newly proposed regulatory bodies that duplicate existing agencies. The document also references an undefined Integrated AI‑Powered Monitoring Centre and contains hallucinated citations that...
IBM Study Shows 76% of Companies Add Chief AI Officer as CEOs Redesign C‑suite
IBM's latest Institute for Business Value survey of 2,000 CEOs reveals that 76% of organizations now have a Chief AI Officer, a jump from 26% in 2025. Executives say AI is reshaping decision‑making, governance and talent, prompting a wholesale redesign...
ServiceNow Leverages AI Control Tower to Boost HR Services Amid SaaS Downturn
ServiceNow is positioning its AI Control Tower, introduced in May 2025, as a way to modernize HR operations while the company battles a 52% stock decline and a broader SaaS slowdown. The platform lets enterprises orchestrate AI agents across functions,...
TDK Ventures' Nicolas Sauvage Pushes Patient Capital Into AI Infrastructure
Nicolas Sauvage, head of TDK Ventures, is steering the Japanese electronics giant’s $500 million corporate venture arm toward AI infrastructure that only becomes obvious after four years. His early bet on inference‑chip maker Groq, now valued at $6.9 billion, illustrates the patient‑capital...
Record-Breaking Beijing Auto Show Highlights Accelerated Shift to Smart EVs
The 2026 Beijing Auto Show set records with a 380,000 sq m exhibition space and 1.28 million visitors, including 65,000 from abroad. Automakers unveiled 1,451 vehicles, featuring 181 debut models and 71 concept cars centered on AI and electrification. LiDAR became standard on...
Figma Shares Drop 16% After Anthropic Unveils Claude Design, Raising AI Competition Fears
Figma's shares fell 16% after Anthropic introduced Claude Design, a generative AI tool that mirrors Figma's design capabilities. The slide follows earlier pressure from Anthropic's Mythos AI model and comes ahead of Figma's May 14 earnings, where analysts expect $316 million...
Why Companies Must Stop Underusing AI To Start Capturing Real Productivity Gains
Anthropic’s new labor‑market research reveals a stark AI adoption gap, coining the metric “observed exposure” to compare tasks AI could handle versus those actually assisted by AI. In computer‑focused roles, large language models could support most duties, yet firms are...
Kenya's AI Health Premiums Spike, Leaving Poor Families Unable to Pay
Kenya's AI‑powered health contribution system, launched in October 2024, is systematically inflating premiums for low‑income households, charging up to 20% of their income. The Guardian reports that families now face fees of 1,030 Kenyan shillings ($10) a year, sparking protests...
3 Copilot Capabilities for High-Stakes Comms Work
Microsoft 365 Copilot now offers three high‑stakes capabilities—content analysis, email coaching, and inbox triage—directly within PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. These tools let communications professionals extract key insights, pressure‑test drafts and prioritize urgent messages in seconds, dramatically shortening briefing cycles. Each...
AI-Generated CSAM: Staying Ahead Of The Threat
The Internet Watch Foundation reported a record 312,000 confirmed CSAM cases, with AI‑generated, photo‑realistic abuse videos soaring by more than 26,000% in a single year. Law‑enforcement investigators now confront deepfake content that cannot be detected through traditional hash‑matching, forcing a...
Inside Israel's AI Targeting System: How Data From a Phone Become a Death Sentence
Israel’s military has deployed an AI‑driven kill‑chain that fuses smartphone metadata, drone imagery, traffic cameras, Wi‑Fi signals and social‑media footprints to pinpoint Hezbollah operatives. The system, built on platforms such as Palantir’s Maven, can generate a threat profile in seconds...
Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies
In this episode, Undersecretary of State Sarah B. Rogers discusses how public diplomacy now centers on defending free speech and digital freedom abroad, reversing the previous administration’s content‑removal efforts. She argues that a "Western AI stack"—AI built on individualistic, consent‑based,...
Cassava Plans AI Factory in Joburg, as Cape Town Goes Live
Cassava Technologies is set to launch its first AI factory in Cape Town within weeks, leveraging Nvidia’s AI platform, and is already planning a second 20 MW AI factory in Johannesburg. The facilities will deliver high‑performance computing, GPU‑as‑a‑service and AI‑as‑a‑service to...
AI Godfather Yann LeCun's Advice on College, Work and Breaking Through AI Hype
Yann LeCun, the Turing‑award‑winning AI pioneer, cautions that AI doom narratives are inflating fear among teens and distorting public policy. He argues CEOs of AI labs exaggerate risks to sell products, and that the claim AI will wipe out 20% of...
As Formula One Evolves, AI Becomes Part of the Race
Artificial intelligence is moving from branding to core operations in Formula One, with eight new AI partnerships signed in the past six months. Williams has teamed with Anthropic’s Claude model to enhance race‑strategy, while Red Bull works with Oracle and McLaren has...
Unified Identity Layer Key to Securing Agentic AI
Silverfort will headline the ITWeb Security Summit 2026 in Johannesburg, urging firms to replace fragmented point solutions with a unified identity security layer. The company highlights two pressures: outdated legacy infrastructure that was never fully secured, and the emergence of...
Spring Cleaning for Your AI Tools
AI chatbots like Anthropic's Claude now retain a rolling memory of prior conversations, updating it every 24 hours to provide contextual continuity. Users can disable this memory, but doing so strips the model of useful context. Similar persistent‑memory features exist...
AI Can't Fix Healthcare's Deep Structural Problems
AI is being positioned as a fix for healthcare. It won’t be that simple. Automation may reduce costs and speed up diagnoses, but it doesn’t solve deeper issues like staffing, funding and system complexity. The risk is clear. Technology can improve parts...
I Let AI Look at My Breasts—And I’m Glad I Did
Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern let an artificial‑intelligence system read her mammograms after years of early screening due to dense breast tissue. The AI flagged subtle patterns that radiologists might miss, offering a personal case study of how machine‑learning...
US Chip Ban Fuels China’s Homegrown AI GPU Surge
The US export ban on Nvidia chips to China didn't slow China's AI one bit; it is building it. Jensen Huang just confirmed what anyone watching Asia already knew: Nvidia's China market share is now 0%. Gone. How exactly the US...
AI Chipmakers in Korea, Taiwan Drive Asian Stocks to Record
Asian equities surged as AI‑focused chipmakers in South Korea and Taiwan propelled the MSCI Asia Pacific Index to a 2% gain, its highest level since April. TSMC, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix all posted record‑high shares, lifting regional tech benchmarks...
Artificial Stupidity in the Persian Gulf
The United States backed a $3.3 GW AI compute corridor in the Persian Gulf, promising cheap $0.10/kWh power, low‑latency connectivity and up to 70,000 Nvidia chips for American firms. The plan was intertwined with a $2 billion Trump‑linked stablecoin deal and a...
AI Tools Aren't Training; Real Competence Needs Practice
Professional athletes train most of the time to perform when it matters. Corporate teams perform all the time and get one AI workshop called “transformation.” What worries me is how often we confuse access with ability. Giving people AI tools is not the...
The AI Knowledge Gap We Can’t Afford to Ignore
Healthcare is rapidly integrating artificial intelligence, with two‑thirds of physicians using AI tools in 2024—a 78% surge from previous years. While AI can streamline chart review and surface clinical trends, experts warn that overreliance creates automation bias, magnifying documentation flaws...
Small Language Models: Rethinking Enterprise AI Architecture
Enterprises are reshaping AI stacks by routing routine queries to 1‑7 billion‑parameter small language models (SLMs) while reserving trillion‑parameter large language models (LLMs) for complex reasoning. This division of labor can slash cloud inference costs by up to 90 % and deliver...
Agentic AI, Fraud and the Fight for Customer Loyalty
Agentic AI is reshaping e‑commerce by automating the entire buyer journey, from product discovery to checkout. At the same time, fraud‑as‑a‑service is proliferating synthetic identities, deepfakes, and document forgeries, overwhelming traditional safeguards. Merchants must shift to proactive, data‑driven fraud prevention...
Agentic Browsers Rewrite the Rules of Enterprise Security
Enterprise browsers are evolving from passive tools to autonomous agents, driven by rapid AI adoption. Deloitte reports 74% of organizations will deploy agentic AI within two years, while 84% of knowledge workers are eager to use it. These agentic browsers...
What Is Your AI Drug Repurposing Strategy Missing?
The article argues that AI‑driven drug repurposing for oncology often fails because models are fed fragmented, noisy data despite abundant datasets. It stresses that more data alone won’t improve outcomes; instead, high‑quality, curated, structured data—such as knowledge graphs linking genes,...
Global Payroll Is a Strategic Problem. AI Is Finally Solving It.
Global payroll has long been treated as a fragmented, operational chore, relying on a patchwork of local vendors and costly reconciliation. Recent AI advances shift payroll from assistance to autonomous execution, delivering "zero‑click" processing that cuts workforce‑management expenses by roughly...
The AI Gap in Retail Operations Is Real. Here’s How to Start Closing It.
Retail executives overwhelmingly acknowledge that manual back‑office tasks are eroding sales and customer experience, with 72% citing operational drag. A ServiceNow‑Informa TechTarget survey reveals integration hurdles (54%) and unclear KPIs (67%) as the chief obstacles to AI adoption. Yet modest,...
#358 How AI Agents Will Work While You Sleep | Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Professor at Carnegie Mellon
In this episode, DataCamp talks with Carnegie Mellon professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov about the rapid evolution of AI agents, especially their growing capabilities in coding, computer‑use tasks, and long‑horizon problem solving. Salakhutdinov explains how agents are moving from minute‑scale actions to...
Why Your First AI Hire in Finance Should Focus on Operations
The article argues that a finance team’s first AI hire should target operational tasks such as reconciliations, invoicing and cross‑system handoffs rather than analytics. Recent improvements in large‑language‑model precision, guardrails and audit trails now make AI reliable enough for repetitive,...
How OpenClaw’s Agent Skills Become an Attack Surface
OpenClaw’s AI agent offers deep integration with a user’s local machine, granting access to files, browsers, and long‑term memory, but it stores configuration and credentials in plain‑text files. This design lets attackers who compromise the host quickly exfiltrate API keys,...
Data, AI, and the Quest for Edge in Hedge Funds
S&P Global Market Intelligence is positioning itself as the backbone of hedge‑fund data infrastructure, emphasizing accuracy, structure, and trust over sheer volume. Michael Patton outlines four competitive pillars—unique data, speed, interpretation, and behavioral discipline—that drive investment edge. The firm tackles...
Contingency Frameworks for Future U.S.-China Cooperation on AI Assurance and Security
RAND’s latest expert‑insights paper proposes a contingency framework for future U.S.–China cooperation on AI assurance and security. While current geopolitical rivalry makes bilateral AI projects unlikely, the analysis outlines five strategic lines of effort that could enable stable, predictable collaboration...
Self‑hosted Immich Replaces Paid Cloud Photo Services
Google Photos charges $3/month after 15GB. iCloud charges $1/month and scans your images. Amazon Photos bundles you into Prime. Someone open-sourced a Google Photos clone that runs on your own hardware for $0. And no company can delete your memories. It's called Immich. Here's what...
AI Moves to Frontline, Shaping Bank Decisions
AI is moving from back office to front line in banking. Bank of America is deploying AI agents to support advisers in real time, shaping client interactions and recommendations. The shift is structural. AI is no longer assisting processes, it is starting...
Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches
Open‑weight AI models (OWMs) are emerging with publicly accessible parameters, creating risk profiles that traditional closed‑weight evaluation methods overlook. Researchers Paskov, Rodriguez, Dev, and Casper propose a proportional evaluation (PE) framework comprising four criteria to address these gaps. Their systematic...
XAI Unveils Affordable Grok 4.3 with Rapid Voice Cloning
xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite 📣 👉 https://t.co/fT7JvuY5Ws https://t.co/0CuJJNMyT8
Compute, Not Intelligence, Becomes AI’s New Bottleneck
The real bottleneck in AI is no longer intelligence. It’s compute. Rate limits on tools are early signals that chips, power and data centers are under pressure as demand explodes. The implication is strategic. Access to compute may decide who leads and...
MAS Partners Banking Industry to Tap AI, Machine Learning to Combat Financial Crime
The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced a proof‑of‑value project to use artificial intelligence and machine learning for pre‑emptive scam detection. The initiative brings together five local banks, the Government Technology Agency and the Singapore Police Force, creating a secure data‑sharing...
Blackstone, H&F, Goldman Sachs Eye $1.5B Anthropic AI JV
Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and @GoldmanSachs near $1.5bn AI joint venture with @AnthropicAI Read more here: https://t.co/08fJYiyLMs https://t.co/cicFdQqZB8
Silicon Valley Made AI Powerful. Tokyo Wants to Make It Work
Tokyo is positioning itself as the world’s most startup‑friendly city, leveraging its stable infrastructure, government backing, and a burgeoning AI ecosystem. Governor Yuriko Koike’s agenda targets a ten‑fold rise in startups and unicorns, and the city has already climbed to...
Enhans Renames CommerceOS to AgentOS, Expanding Its AI Agents Beyond Commerce to the Enterprise
Enhans announced that its CommerceOS platform will be renamed AgentOS effective May 1, signaling a shift from a commerce‑focused tool to a broader enterprise AI operating system. AgentOS promises to stitch together data, ontologies, agents, workflows and web interfaces into a...
Your AI CV Just Got You Rejected
A federal court in California authorized a collective‑action notice allowing anyone over 40 who applied through Workday’s AI hiring platform since September 2020 to join a class‑action lawsuit. The case, Mobley v. Workday, alleges that the AI system systematically down‑weights older,...
Zensai Introduces Human Success Agent for Microsoft Agent 365, Redefining AI-Driven Learning and Human Success in the Flow of Work
Zensai announced the general availability of its Human Success Agent, a partner AI agent built on Microsoft Agent 365. The solution embeds real‑time workforce performance, engagement and skill data directly into Microsoft 365 apps, leveraging Microsoft Entra for secure governance....
How TeamViewer ONE Transforms IT Operations From Firefighting to Autopilot
TeamViewer ONE leverages agentic AI to shift IT support from reactive ticket‑based firefighting to proactive, autonomous remediation. By continuously monitoring endpoints, the platform detects early signals of digital friction and resolves issues before users notice them. The solution combines AI,...
€4.8m EU-Funded AI Project to Tackle Child Diarrhoeal Disease in Africa
An EU‑funded CARE‑AFRICA project will develop an AI‑driven tablet tool to identify the pathogen behind diarrhoeal disease in children under five across sub‑Saharan Africa. The €4.8 million (about $5.2 million) grant brings together six partners from Europe and Africa to train models...