Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft has unveiled its largest ever UK investment, committing £22 billion over the next four years to build Britain's biggest artificial intelligence supercomputer and expand its data centre network. The announcement, timed to coincide with President Trump's state visit, dwarfs other Big Tech pledges and forms the centrepiece of £31 billion in new US-led tech investment. Half of Microsoft's spend will go towards capital expansion, while the other half will bolster its UK operations, which already employ 6,000 people.

Headless browsers - the behind-the-scenes software that lets machines surf the web like people - were once the domain of quality-assurance testers and SEO agencies. But new AI-powered browsers launched this last year - like Perplexity's Comet and Browser Company of New York's Dia - are bringing new meaning to the term. These players are using headless browsers to power AI agents that need to click, scroll and interact with websites as a human would, to retrieve information.

Google is testing placing AI-generated search result snippet summaries. Under each Google search result, there is a thing bar, followed by the Gemini logo and then a short AI-generated summary of the page. This test was spotted by Landon Moore who shared screenshots with me on X - he wrote that his team found this "new test showing AI-generated summary of what the page includes under results."

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Waymo just got approved to roll out their autonomous vehicles in phases at San Francisco International Airport. "We got Waymo's driving all over the city right now. We are the city of the future. It has to happen here, and it will," said San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. Waymo mapped the airport which is in San Mateo County, in the spring - a process that took 30 days. Mayor Lurie said safety will be the focus.

Artificial intelligence is about to enable the most dramatic shift of the century: the transition from human labour to AI labour. In the coming years, businesses won't just use AI as a tool - they'll employ AI as real colleagues, handling critical workflows end-to-end. That shift is inevitable. The real question is: whose employees will we be hiring? If Europe doesn't catch up with the US and China and build its own AI employees,

We've all lost count of the times we've received an email, policy, or memo from a lawyer so "well written" that nobody understands it. It's frustrating, and you want to write back: "Great legal summary - I have no idea what it means." Unfortunately, that's often how legal communications are received by business colleagues and stakeholders: overly complicated, needlessly formal, and disconnected from everyday business needs - not human.

The rise of ChatGPT and Perplexity is already starting to chip away at Google's search dominance. Through agentic AI and conversational search, these new browsers promise more personalization and a redefined search experience. Whether they'll truly pull users away from traditional search is still unclear - but brands can't wait to protect visibility. From what we know, both Perplexity's and OpenAI's browsers will focus on personalization, context-aware answers, and agentic AI to deliver more intuitive search experiences.

We want to have an AI capability on every desktop - 3 million desktops - in six or nine months,

Anyone who has used bots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude knows they can lean a little ... well, suck-uppy. They're " sychophants." They tell you what you want to hear. Even OpenAI's Sam Altman acknowledged the issue with the latest iteration of ChatGPT, which supposedly was tuned to be less of a yes man. Now, a study by university researchers is using one of the key barometers of knowing-if-you're-a-jerk: Reddit's " Am I the Asshole" page - where people post stories good and bad,

Pega Smart Investigate Agentic Automation promises banks faster and cheaper handling of payment exceptions. These are cases in which payment is not or cannot be made. The updated version primarily adds extra generative AI capabilities to the existing offering. This should lead to better automated handling of cases requiring investigation. Many banks still rely on manual processes to handle cases where payment has not been made. This is despite the growing complexity of the market.

Employees will soon have access to a single integrated platform where enterprise knowledge, data, and actions come together. The new capabilities include searching across all of an organization's key data sources, including Workday's own data cloud, as well as Google Drive, SharePoint, and Office365. AI agents can act proactively by anticipating needs, summarizing insights, and providing support for projects. In addition, these agents are enabled to create presentations, documents, dashboards, and even entire learning courses based on existing company data.

"For an education institution, we see AI as a material that can be shaped,"

But rarely does the process go smoothly enough for prime time. The jury's still out on whether experienced programmers actually benefit from using AI coding assistants, and the tech's shortcomings are even more obvious when it's being relied on by untrained amateurs who openly embrace the whole shtick of working off mainly "vibes." Nothing illustrates that last point better than the fact that some veteran programmers are apparently now making a killing by fixing these AI-hallucinated disasters, which interviewed a few of these canny opportunists.

Two former Google DeepMind researchers who worked on the company's Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein structure prediction AI as well as its AlphaEvolve code generation system have launched a new company, with the mission of democratizing access to advanced algorithms. The company, which is called Hiverge, emerged from stealth today with $5 million in seed funding, led by Flying Fish Ventures with participation from Ahren Innovation Capital and Alpha Intelligence Capital.

This system can be used to integrate and manage Workday agents as well as third-party agents. Workday is taking this opportunity forward to become a system of record for all workers - be they digital or human.

By the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count. Or so it felt. This was the early 1970s, the waning years of the Cultural Revolution, and his father ran a village supply store in rural China. There was little to do beyond till the fields and study Mao Zedong at home, and so the shop became a refuge where people could rest, recharge and share tales.

MongoDB today unveiled an application modernization platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to analyze and convert legacy applications into code that can be used to deploy a modern application on its document database. Shilpa Kolhar, senior vice president of product and engineering for MongoDB, said the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP) will make it possible to refactor code in a way that is compatible with the open source Java Spring framework, which in turn could then be deployed on MongoDB.

MCP gives IDEs and agents a standard way to talk to tools and data. As the docs put it, "Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications," which captures the goal of uniform connectors with minimal client glue. The registry sits above that protocol, publishing a machine-readable catalog of servers that clients can query and install. "We're launching...the MCP Registry-an open catalog and API for publicly available MCP servers," the maintainers wrote in the preview announcement.

But Google's PR and leadership has maintained a bizarre counter-narrative that AIOs generate equal revenue to and more traffic than traditional search. The company has long asserted - using these exact words - that AIOs "send traffic to a greater diversity of sites." In fact, that line was just repeated by a Google spokesperson to TechCrunch , which covered the Penske suit.