Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Meta plans to spend up to $72 billion this year on AI infrastructure, and has said spending will climb higher next year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this year that he'd rather risk "misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars" than be late to the development of superintelligence. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and privately held AI companies like OpenAI are logging record-breaking capital expenditures on all things AI.

(Neither the startup nor the people in Redmond have publicly confirmed this percentage.) However, this is where things get a little sticky because Microsoft also shares revenue with OpenAI, kickingbackabout 20% of the revenues from Bing and Azure OpenAI Service, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Bing is powered by OpenAI, and the OpenAI Service sells cloud access to OpenAI's models to developers and businesses.

The use of conversational AI for customer service and sales is rapidly increasing, according to a new report from Twilio, which found 63% of organizations in either the final or complete stages of development, and 85% of consumers reporting interactions with an AI agent within the past three months. The report, "Inside the Conversational AI Revolution" (no registration required), also found that 99% of organizations anticipate their conversational AI strategy will change in the next 12 months.

Recently, at a pub with a bunch of my friends who were gen X parents, the talk turned to young love. Most of their kids were in their late teens and early 20s, and embarking on their first relationships. These gen X parents were a cohort that supported marriage equality and trans rights, not just for society more broadly but for their own children. And we all prided ourselves on being more progressive than the previous generation.

A safe, universal platform for AI workloads CKACP's goal is to create community-defined, open standards for consistently and reliably running AI workloads across different Kubernetes environments. Also: Why even a US tech giant is launching 'sovereign support' for Europe now CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk said, "This conformance program will create shared criteria to ensure AI workloads behave predictably across environments. It builds on the same successful community-driven process we've used with Kubernetes to help bring consistency across over 100-plus Kubernetes systems as AI adoption scales."

Anthropic says Chinese nation-state hackers hijacked its AI model Claude to carry out a cyberattack without "substantial" human involvement. In a Thursday blog post, the startup said Claude handled about "80-90%" of the cyberattack against about 30 global targets and that it had "high confidence" that a Chinese state-sponsored group was behind it. Targets included large tech firms, financial institutions, chemical-manufacturing companies, and government agencies, Anthropic said.

The makers of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude claim to have caught Chinese government hackers using the tool to perform automated cyber attacks against around 30 global organisations. Anthropic said hackers tricked the chatbot into carrying out automated tasks under the guise of carrying out cyber security research. The company claimed in a blog post this was the "first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign".

Given the market opportunity, the acquisition is a no-brainer as Salesforce would want to advance its capabilities in the space, analysts pointed out, referring to Doti's current product offering, which is a AI-based enterprise search bot that can be interfaced with on Slack to surface insights from across applications and services, such as Datadog, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, , Notion, Slack, Salesforce, Monday, and Zendesk, among others.

If you talk to PhD students at Berkeley and Stanford in AI right now, they'll tell you that they've read twice as many interesting AI ideas in the last year that were from Chinese companies than American companies,

Anthropic says it developed the tool as part of its effort to ensure its products treat opposing political viewpoints fairly and to neither favor nor disfavor, any particular ideology. "We want Claude to take an even-handed approach when it comes to politics," Anthropic said in its blog post. However, it also acknowledged that "there is no agreed-upon definition of political bias, and no consensus on how to measure it."

In October, Collins Dictionary granted it the annual award following its explosive rise to prominence over the last nine months. The practice, which involves using natural language prompts to generate code and speed up development processes, has been hailed as a great breakthrough in software development and has gained significant traction across the tech industry. Indeed, it's become a burgeoning industry.

In the company's annual Cloud Readiness Report 70% of CEOs admit they built their current cloud environment "by accident, rather than by design" - this often entailed periodic upgrades aimed at addressing short-term needs, rather than focusing on longer term strategic improvements. Kyndryl said this shows that many lacked a "deliberate strategy" when pursuing cloud transformation projects, and the effects of this are starting to show with huge workload pressure placed on cloud environments, as well as growing security threats and evolving regulatory requirements.

OpenAI is pushing the new group chat feature as a way for people to collaborate at work and school, as well as a way for friends to make decisions on things like dinner destinations, vacations, and the like. Search, image and file uploading, image generation, and voice dictation are all included in group chats with ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.1 Auto, which automatically shunts requests to the best model (i.e., instant, thinking, or a legacy model for free tier users) for the task.

Fans tired of waiting for the next Frozen sequel or the next chapter in the Star Wars saga may soon have new ways to engage with those worlds by creating their own content using Disney's IP. That was the tantalizing hint Disney CEO Bob Iger dropped during an earnings call Thursday, as he described how the company is exploring ways to make the Disney+ subscription-based streaming service more interactive, and customizable for users.

The acquisition should help organizations build, train, and deploy specific AI models and Small Language Models (SLMs) within their own infrastructure. NeuralFabric's technology should primarily ensure that the new AI Canvas has an even more solid foundation. The future of AI models lies at least as much in small models as in large ones. To make AI truly interesting within organizations, we don't need another generic model, but rather more specialized models and SLMs.

A leading artificial intelligence researcher is warning that Character.AI's plan to ban chatbots for kids by late November may leave them susceptible to self-harm or suicide if they detach from an AI companion too quickly. Character.AI announced its decision to disable chatbots for kids in late October, in response to political pressure and news reports of teens who had become suicidal after prolonged use.

When President Donald Trump began his tariff rollout, the business world predicted that his unprecedented attempt to reshape the economy would lead to a major recession, if he went through with it all. But the markets stabilized and, in recent months, have continued to surge. That has some people worried about an even bigger threat: that overinvestment in artificial intelligence is creating a bubble.

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