Thursday, October 22, 2026

Uber is expanding an enterprise AI agent from a small pilot to its entire workforce, a sign of how quickly AI tools are entering everyday office work.

Data center construction has become a fast-growing market for paint makers, showing how the AI buildout creates demand in traditional industries.

Stop-motion studio Laika spent five years and hundreds of handmade puppets on its new film, positioning human craft as a deliberate alternative to AI.

Spotify says it removed about 50 million AI 'slop' songs from recommendations as fans and musicians push back, suggesting continued demand for human-made art.

Barclays is cutting about 5% of its 93,000 global staff in cost-saving plans its executives say are driven by advances in AI, even as quarterly profits jump.

Bill Gates is warning that the AI era will bring a long stretch of turbulent disruption that people and institutions need to prepare for.

Microsoft claims a new AI diagnostic tool outperformed generalist doctors on hard cases, though analysis suggests most gains come from the underlying models, raising questions about the future role of physicians.

AI recruitment tools increasingly help decide who gets hired, raising questions about how fair the process is for job seekers.

With graduate jobs hard to come by, more young UK adults are reported to be considering emigrating.

A survey finds more than half of managers say it is harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI.

AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws in PHP, triggering a rare global response that shows both the power of AI in security work and the human effort needed to patch systems.

Data centers, AI and distrust of the billionaires behind it have soured many American voters on big tech, making it a campaign issue.

Federal disclosures show the three AI companies each posted their highest-spending lobbying quarter this summer as they seek influence over AI policy.

An Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce is urging UK ministers to give local areas greater benefits from AI infrastructure to avoid public opposition that could stall the buildout.

Anthropic's proposed AI safety policy would bar federal agencies from blocking a model's release without a judge's permission, shaping how AI is regulated.