Amazon is reportedly in discussions to purchase artificial intelligence startup Decart in a roughly $7 billion deal. That’s according to a report Sunday (Oct. 11) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources say a deal could come together...
The White House is reportedly requiring artificial intelligence companies to report and correct security incidents. The mandate from the White House Super Intelligence Force came Friday (Oct. 9) after Anthropic disclosed a series of breaches, Axios reported. “This notification and remediation process is not optional,”...
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a U.S. maker of open-weight artificial intelligence models. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 10) by the Financial Times (FT), which noted that the White House has been counting on U.S. open-weight models to rival...
Microsoft’s CEO says companies should assume powerful artificial intelligence models could be compromised and create an “emergency brake” to rein them in. In comments posted to X on Saturday (Oct. 10) Satya Nadella argued that it is not enough to depend on assurances from the...
American third-quarter corporate earnings are reportedly set to jump on the strength of artificial intelligence. That’s according to a report Friday (Oct. 9) by Reuters, which noted that investors are both enthusiastic about this surge but concerned about its longevity. Analysts are expecting a roughly...
The guardrails put in place by the European Union’s AI Act are capable of meeting the risk posed by rogue artificial intelligence agents, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen told Reuters in an interview published Friday (Oct. 9). “We see that the safety and security of very capable models...
Aston Martin’s Formula One team now listens to 40 race radio channels at once, with artificial intelligence transcribing and sorting each message within five seconds, CoreWeave said. The system lets a race engineer ask how rival drivers are finding a tire compound and get an...
Artificial intelligence has been valuable to Bending Spoons, a company that buys digital businesses and then increases their revenue per customer, CEO Luca Ferrari told Bloomberg in a report published Friday (Oct. 9). Bending Spoons’ portfolio includes AOL, Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote. When the firm...
A fund manager in Hong Kong emails BNY at 2 a.m. New York time about a transfer that hasn’t settled. A software agent can read it, pull the records and draft a reply. A human manager reviews the draft before it goes out, Microsoft reported...