This opinion piece argues that while French high-school students blockade their schools, AI is already eliminating jobs they might hold in future. It urges them to focus on learning the technology.
This opinion piece argues that beyond models, uses, chips and record investment, another AI revolution is already under way.
AI promises productivity gains, but this piece looks at what happens when adopting it creates extra work. It also warns that useful activities can be neglected in the process.
This opinion piece argues that in companies embracing agentic AI, every employee becomes the manager of a team of agents. Firms that hold back, it says, may face competitors with no employees at all.
This opinion piece argues that AI can let entrepreneurs grow their business without opening up their capital to investors.
The MCP protocol lets AI reach into business management software directly. That raises a question for vendors: what role remains for them if users no longer need to open their interface?
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva likened AI's effect on the global labour market to a slow-moving tsunami, with young job seekers most exposed. A World Bank jobs council is calling for employment support measures of the kind used in crises.
TSMC is expected to report record third-quarter profit on Thursday, driven largely by demand for AI chips. Investors are also looking for details on a possible expansion of the Taiwanese foundry in Texas.
Nvidia is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI or increase its investment, according to the Financial Times. A deal could come within weeks, though the talks could still collapse.
In an episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, the hosts discuss what moratoriums on data center construction could mean. They also ask whether the AI industry is struggling to communicate, including whether dropping non-disclosure agreements could win over opponents.
In the US, personal AI agents comb through bank statements for forgotten or duplicate subscriptions and then talk directly to customer service to lower bills. Insurers and telecom operators that profited from customer inertia now face a tireless counterpart.
Job postings for software developers are rebounding, led by senior and AI-focused roles. This comes even as AI automates more coding and entry-level hiring weakens.
Between doom-laden warnings and promises of huge productivity gains, it is hard to separate fact from fiction on AI and jobs. Presse-citron takes stock of the situation in France.
Data from a16z points to a Jevons paradox: token prices keep falling while H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or rise, as cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand levels off, the whole chain from chipmakers to cloud providers would be hit.
Satya Nadella now says 'super intelligence' instead of artificial intelligence, in line with President Trump's preferred term. In a blog post he frames AI models as insider security threats, which The Decoder reads as a swipe at OpenAI and Anthropic driven by Microsoft's fear of falling behind.
ChatGPT Pro usage limits will be halved at the end of the month as a new $500 tier arrives. Meanwhile, an independent analysis has measured how generous rival Claude's subscriptions are.
Retailers are adopting AI tools to streamline operations. Experts warn that gathering more detailed consumer data raises the risk of personalized pricing.
As AI takes on more routine work, professional services firms are shifting their value toward human judgment and trusted outcomes. They are redesigning how they structure projects, manage knowledge and measure success.
Apple has disclosed a deal to hire the team of Huxe, a personalized podcast startup, and license its technology. TechCrunch asks whether Apple is looking at AI-generated podcasts.
In its latest Top 100 AI list, Andreessen Horowitz tracks actual US consumer spending for the first time. Nearly half of US consumers use AI but only 4.5% pay for a subscription, and the top 1% of payers spend about $900 a month, mostly on professional tools.
AI adoption is pushing the legal profession to rethink the billable hour. It is also changing how lawyers build expertise.
As companies move beyond experiments, running AI agents across existing data, applications and infrastructure raises questions of access, oversight and control. These issues will shape IBM's TechXchange 2026 conference in Atlanta on Oct. 26–29.
TypeSafe, maker of the Jev AI model, is valued at $7.5 billion only weeks after launch. The company claims Jev runs much faster and uses far fewer tokens than large language models.
Flock Safety, which makes AI-powered surveillance cameras and licence-plate readers, plans to cut about 18% of its staff, roughly 270 people, according to sources. The company faces growing opposition from communities and lawmakers over privacy.
Workers at three major publishing houses told WIRED that language models are being used for publicity, cover art, back-cover copy and emails. Some executives are pushing junior staff to champion the technology.
McKinsey is using a knowledge graph to give enterprise AI applications context, linking company data with the business relationships behind decisions.
Olivia Moore of venture firm a16z sees a large opportunity in consumer AI. She says it depends on finding revenue beyond subscriptions and API fees.
A drop in visits to news sites in September has heightened publishers’ concerns about the rise of AI, particularly Google’s AI Overviews in search.
AI is now involved in every step of holiday planning, from inspiration to booking, and hotels, agencies and destinations are trying to adapt. Le Monde notes the questions it raises about errors, standardization, jobs and environmental cost.
Wall Street firms are bringing AI data center investments to public markets. Political, liquidity and project risks are growing at the same time.
The WTO has raised its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade growth to 3.9%, driven by AI-related goods. These goods make up 14.8% of trade but 47% of its growth in value in the first half, with Asia dominating and Europe’s export share small.
Making commercials has long served as a training ground for British directors such as Ridley Scott. Automated production is now cutting costs and, with them, opportunities for newcomers to learn on the job.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.
AI shopping agents such as Muse create challenges for retailers like Amazon, Costco and TJX. CNBC says they also bring some unexpected advantages.
SiliconANGLE's weekly column says it is too early to call an AI bubble, given the money still flowing into AI companies. It notes OpenAI told investors its revenue was $18 billion below the figure previously cited, alongside a busy week of model releases and a Trump crackdown on tech green cards.
Startup Instinct launched its AI agent in August with an invite-only approach and almost no marketing, and it quickly drew praise for its text-message interface. The Verge asks whether it can withstand competition from Muse.
An analysis by The Media Leader of ACPM data shows the websites of 40 French news brands lost 22.9% of their visits in a year. The drop follows the rollout of Google’s AI summaries, although no direct link has been established.
AI labs are hiring people with political experience as frontier technology is increasingly treated as a national security matter. OpenAI and Anthropic have both recruited former Trump administration officials.
Harmattan AI has unveiled IRIFI, an autonomous strike drone it says can fly 2,000 km without GPS. Morocco has signed a letter of intent.
Mistral's chief executive claims a technological leap that makes the French startup more competitive with large US labs. He also plays down apocalyptic fears about AI.
Montreal has become a hub for AI, and some students and new graduates hope to benefit. Others fear their skills will quickly become outdated.
Paris taxi firm G7 will keep its own data centers but turn to the S3NS public cloud for computing power and big data processing. The SecNumCloud-certified platform will host its new AI tools.
A study by KPMG and Numeum finds that AI productivity gains are undermining time-based billing at IT services firms. They are also changing the profiles these companies hire.
Firmus, a data centre company backed by Nvidia, has called off its stock market listing. It cited recent market volatility, as worries grow over AI valuations.
AI assistants are pulling customer relationships away from retailers' own channels. To stay relevant, loyalty programs will need to be interoperable, instant and secure.
Automating interviews and analysis is lowering the cost of producing consumer studies and opening talks on their price, frequency and the role of consulting. Gains will depend on participant recruitment, how much human work is kept and how results are actually used.
Anthropic had offered startups up to $1,000 in API credits and a free year of subscription after a simple form check. Three days later it pulled back, saying it had been overwhelmed by demand.
Vendors are pitching AI as the answer to aging legacy IT systems. A former IBM executive questions whether that promise really stands up economically.
German search engine Ecosia is ending its use of Mistral's AI services after being disappointed by the French company's models. It now intends to favor open-weight models, including Chinese ones, a setback for Europe's best-known AI startup.
Three safety researchers fired by OpenAI deny mishandling sensitive information. In an open letter, they warn that their dismissal is having a chilling effect on the company’s safety culture.