Following Character.AI's bankruptcy filing this week, many of the chatbot startup's employees will be offered jobs at Disney. Former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand recently became Disney's first CTO, and Disney had agreed to buy some of the startup's assets for $20 million.
According to the Telegraph, Microsoft has withdrawn as anchor tenant of Nscale's first British data centre in Loughton, Essex, as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site has suffered a series of delays, and the paper gave no reason for Microsoft's exit.
Anthropic says the makeup of its workforce and the kind of work its staff do have shifted significantly over the past year. Employees are more senior on average and spend more of their time in meetings.
Google said more than 400 publications worldwide now take part in its News AI pilot, which pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. New partners include Axios, CNN, the Financial Times and Forbes.
A falling AI trade unsettled markets last week. CNBC's Investing Club says solid bank earnings and a rotation away from tech still offer reasons for optimism.
ServiceNow pitches AI Control Tower as a way to discover and govern any AI agent across models and clouds, track cost and value, and stop behaviour that breaks policy. SiliconANGLE sees it as one of the most visible enterprise AI bets, though the product is still being built out.