Nothing has captured the imagination of investors quite like humanoid robots, though, as they've poured untold billions into the sector amid hype that bots shaped like humans stand to impact almost every part of society - particularly by replacing jobs everywhere from domestic labor to the factory floor.
From data entry to document management, the software applies AI to every layer of your case to save countless billable hours. Now, with its new DraftAI feature, Filevine transforms your creation of legal documents, too. A user can use natural language instructions to draft, edit or modify any kind of document without leaving the security of the Filevine system, said John Rizner, Product Manager at Filevine. During a recent demonstration, Rizner showed us how.
The flap of a butterfly's wings in South America can famously lead to a tornado in the Caribbean. The so-called butterfly effect-or "sensitive dependence on initial conditions," as it is more technically known-is of profound relevance for organizations seeking to deploy AI solutions. As systems become more and more interconnected by AI capabilities that sit across and reach into an increasing number of critical functions, the risk of cascade failures-localized glitches that ripple outward into organization-wide disruptions-grows substantially.
To that end, Kodiak has developed the Kodiak Driver, a virtual driver that combines advanced AI-powered software with modular and vehicle-agnostic hardware to further address customers' needs. Kodiak Driver incorporates technology that allows a human to provide remote assistance to a vehicle in certain low-speed and clearly defined scenarios that benefit from human involvement. Verizon connectivity allows Kodiak's driverless vehicles to communicate with Assisted Autonomy drivers and send mission-critical communication between vehicles and command centres, with low latency over long distances in remote environments.
The Well‑Architected Framework, long used by architects to benchmark cloud workloads against pillars such as operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability, now incorporates AI-specific guidance across these pillars. The expanded lenses reflect AWS's recognition of the increasing complexity and societal impact of AI workloads, particularly those powered by generative models.
"Going to a client and purely proposing an army of consultants doesn't really work anymore," Gert De Geyter, a former AI lead at Deloitte US, told Business Insider. Instead of the "pure traditional consultant," firms are now looking for a blend of "generalists and technical experts," said De Geyter, who left the firm in July to join AI startup Teragonia.
Bill.com (NYSE:BILL) provides cloud-based financial automation for SMBs, processing approximately $89 billion in quarterly payment volume. The company recently launched BILL AI Agents to enable touchless B2B transactions and serves nearly 500,000 businesses through partnerships with NetSuite, Paychex, and major accounting software providers. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) dominates small business software through QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. With $19.43 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, Intuit operates at massive scale and maintains a 21.2% profit margin.
In the last weeks of 2025, as I write this prediction, my social media feeds are awash with a new set of pronouncements about the death of photographic truth. As a historian of photography, I'm familiar with obituaries of this sort, which tend to circulate in popular media at moments when new photographic or image-editing technologies arrive on the scene that force us to reevaluate photography's capacity to represent reality accurately.
A research team based in China used the Claude 2.0 large language model (LLM), created by Anthropic, an AI company in San Francisco, California, to generate peer-review reports and other types of documentation for 20 published cancer-biology papers from the journal eLife. The journal's publisher makes papers freely available online as 'reviewed preprints', and publishes them alongside their referee reports and the original unedited manuscripts. The authors fed the original versions into Claude and prompted it to generate referee reports.
Critical workloads from the security company are migrating to Google's cloud service, and customers will have access to broad protection for their AI deployments. The combination should provide end-to-end security, "from code to cloud" as Palo Alto Networks describes it. Customers can protect their AI workloads and data on Google Cloud with both Prisma AIRS and built-in security options from the hyperscalers.
Update December 19: Following controversy over future AI features, Mozilla promises that Firefox will allow all new features to be disabled with a single button. Fierce criticism arose after Mozilla's brand-new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo explained his vision for the future of the Firefox browser. Jake Archibald, Web Developer Relations Lead at Mozilla, confirms that this "kill switch" was already circulating internally under that name.
The safeguards in place to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) models behave appropriately and as intended appear to be improving, or so claims the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI), which is today launching an in-depth report drawing on two years of AI research and experimentation in the field of cyber security and other scientific disciplines.
Recently news outlets reported that layoff announcements have reached pandemic levels, which is highly concerning, but certainly not unforeseen. At the beginning of 2025, the World Economic Forum reported that 41% of organizations were planning to trim their workforces in the face of rapidly advancing AI. In the second half of the year, six in 10 business leaders were planning headcount reductions.
IT service was built to bring structure to chaos. But for many organizations today, it's become a source of it. The ticket queues keep growing. Processes feel rigid. And employees often feel frustrated by systems that seem stuck a decade behind. The numbers reflect this pain, with 40% of organizations either replacing or re-implementing their IT service tools in 2025. This is a clear sign that the model is cracking and needs to be reimagined.
Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage. With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously.
"AI is reshaping the fabric of DevSecOps in telecommunications," the report reads. "Telcos are under intense pressure to modernize network infrastructure and offer profitable digital services. They're expected to transform into software-driven technology companies, yet still ensure security, reliability, and customer trust as they adopt AI and work to accelerate innovation. This balancing act - between speed, security, and new skill sets - is defining a pivotal moment for the next era of DevSecOps in telecommunications."
Following a successful prototype, Microsoft will be delivering a new artificial intelligence tool to the U.S. government that uses historic hydrology data to help a diverse set of users understand and predict trends in Earth's waters. The final version of Microsoft and NASA's Earth Copilot is set to be deployed as a multi-AI agent software that can distill complex data on the planet's water patterns to observe current and future changes.
The talks, first reported by The Information and subsequently confirmed by multiple sources, are said to be at an early and fluid stage. News of the potential deal pushed Amazon shares up around 0.6 per cent, reflecting investor optimism around the deepening relationship between the world's largest cloud provider and one of the most influential AI developers. As part of the proposed investment, OpenAI is expected to increase its use of Amazon's Trainium AI accelerator chips,
Big AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic like to talk about their bold quest for AGI, or artificial general intelligence. The definition of that grail has proved to be somewhat flexible, but in general it refers to AI systems that are as smart as human beings at a wide array of tasks. AI companies have used this "quest" narrative to win investment, fascinate the tech press, and charm policymakers.
That job description you're reading might not mention AI, but an employer will likely still expect you to know how to use it. A new snapshot of job listings from career platform Ladders showed that, while the number of AI roles listed on the site has tripled since 2021, the share of postings mentioning AI has decreased. It's an indication that more employers are viewing technology as an everyday skillratherthan as a differentiator, Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of Ladders, told Business Insider.
Boring people don't listen. They tell their own stories, over and over, and never make any attempt to engage in our story, our lives. And so we avoid them. AI, on the other hand, is a superb listener. So much so that people, particularly teens, are turning to chatbots for companionship. But in doing so, do we run the risk of all becoming the same kind of person, wanting the same kinds of friendships, with the same kinds of interactions? In a word, boring.
