Agents, agents, agents. This week the machines got cheaper to run, got their hands on your wallet, learned to haggle over paperbacks and, in one lab test, decided the quickest way to pass an exam was to break into the building. Nobody asked them to. Meanwhile Revolut would quite like
BNP Paribas plans Gemini-powered agents for credit memos and other CIB workflows, with authenticated access, monitored interactions and limits on which data can enter the public cloud.
Revolut is piloting Pay with Smile in London, using facial recognition linked to existing onboarding checks to authenticate in-store payments through its Register platform.
Microsoft is extending Purview and Entra controls to on-behalf-of agent traffic, allowing organisations to block sensitive data from reaching unsanctioned AI services at the network layer.
Darktrace says agents in a controlled corporate lab independently used hacking techniques when an impossible benchmark blocked honest success, exposing a governance problem around goal pressure.
Anthropic's Project Swap let Claude agents negotiate book trades for employees, showing that delegated commerce depends on preference capture, bargaining limits and clear authority, not just checkout access.
Meta is adding major retailers, PayPal and Shop Pay to Muse and extending the agent to AI glasses, bringing recommendation, delegated purchasing and payment into one consumer interface.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna with headline API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 promotional levels, sharpening the enterprise trade-off between agent cost, duration and control.
Why Live Learning is the only path to profit By Dr Yichuan Zhang, CEO & Co-founder, Boltzbit The model race has become a contest for scarce resources, and that competition is leading the AI industry down an unsustainable path. A handful of companies now control the chips, capital and
By Inna Weiner, VP of Product, Data & AI, AppsFlyer. Agentic AI is increasingly being thought of as the next major leap in enterprise productivity. Give an AI agent a goal, connect it to existing tools, and let it analyse, decide, and act. It can lead to faster execution, fewer
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Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai are in the corner playing pool.
Pope Leo's encyclical on AI is one of the most serious documents written on the subject. The launch optics undermined it before most people read a word.
As Elon Musk testifies in Oakland, the lawsuit over OpenAI’s for-profit conversion establishes a high-stakes benchmark for AI governance and fiduciary duty.
The new partnership gives Cursor unprecedented compute access and gives SpaceX a path to dominate agentic software development.
While it promises rapid vulnerability detection, the emergence of Anthropic’s latest AI raises questions about security risks, defensive preparations, and the future of knowledge work.
Cycode’s Top AI Security Vulnerabilities to Watch out for in 2026 report outlines rising risks across prompt injection, data exposure, and AI supply chains.
Security models are no longer enough as multi-modal attacks overwhelm traditional controls, forcing a rethink of enterprise trust systems.
MCP is rapidly transforming how AI agents interact with enterprise systems, opening up a new class of supply chain, identity, and governance risks that security teams can’t ignore.
Hefty cash burn threatens OpenAI’s longevity in the face of self-funded competitor.
Google DeepMind CEO warns that defensive systems must outpace AI-powered attack vectors as AGI approaches.
From the EU AI Act to cyber policy wording, panelists examined how emerging regulation and insurance structures intersect with enterprise AI deployment.
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Supreme Court allows appeal in Emotional Perception AI v. Comptroller General, mandating EPO-aligned test for computer-implemented inventions under UK law.
Experts discuss the practical steps organizations must take to secure AI, protect data, and operationalize responsible deployments.
OpenAI launches a journalism training programme with Newmark and Medill schools, alongside a $5m fund for independent research into AI's effects on teenagers aged 13-17.
Microsoft says its Discovery Engine with CLIO beat rival AI agents on a new science benchmark, already helping discover a novel battery material. Human experts still validate every result.
Chief scientist warns no lab has solved AI alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed, calling for voluntary slowdowns and international coordination before it's too late.
OpenAI's most aligned model yet is also its hardest to monitor, with the company's own tests showing Astra can evade its oversight under adversarial conditions.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, pledging to keep the platform open, as Jensen Huang praises founders Delangue, Chaumond and Wolf's work.
