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Prince William and Catherine's surprise visit to Kevin Sinfield's charity run - Published The Prince and Princess of Wales made a surprise visit to support rugby league star Sir Kevin Sinfield, on the third day of his endurance challenge to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease (

“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon is pitching his vision for the Western world's future — and it hinges on Europe rebooting its sluggish economy and strengthening its defense capabilities. "I believe the U.S. should offer Europe a major inducement: If it executes meaningful economi

The year 2026 is shaping up to be the worst for domestic equities in more than a decade, as a combination of weak global and domestic factors has added persistent downward pressure on Dalal Street, pushing the market into double-digit losses. Bulls had hoped that this year could

Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers. According to US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Apple has no evidence to suppo

The FBI and Dutch law enforcement say they have arrested a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which the agencies say are responsible for hacks on over 140 organizations around the world. The hackers also claimed responsibility for a breach of the FBI’s own systems earlier

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Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that it is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable o

At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to oper

Anthropic’s pitch to investors: We’re losing gobs of money, we might kill everyone, buy our stock anyway. Reuters’ peek at the company’s IPO prospectus includes warnings not far off from Semafor’s imaginary list of risk factors, and it details the company’s plans to spend hundred

The News OpenAI on Tuesday launched a personalized agent tool, called dots — a new competitor to Meta’s popular Muse system. Dots “can do nearly anything,” OpenAI said, and integrates into applications like Slack and Microsoft Teams. People will soon be able to text with their do

Liz’s view Lloyd Blankfein, contemplating his exit from Goldman Sachs, liked to say that when things are bad, you can’t leave, and when things are good, you don’t want to. Blankfein was finally having fun, after a decade as CEO, when he started laying the groundwork for his exit

OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s DevDay on Tuesday, is one of several

OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can “do nearly anything” across connected apps in the background while learning your pre

At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company showed off GPT-6.1 Sol, a mere week after it launched GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says the new model delivers nearly the same level of intelligence as GPT-6 Astra for agentic coding, computer use, and professional work, at one-fifth the stan

OpenAI isn’t only coming after productivity software with ChatGPT’s new Pages, Slides, and Space features — the AI lab is now targeting any application that could work better when integrated with ChatGPT. At the company’s DevDay presentation on Tuesday, the AI company said it is

AWS Compute Blog Implementing customer managed keys for AWS Lambda durable functions with Terraform If you run regulated workloads, you must control how persisted data is encrypted and who can access it. You need to manage encryption key rotation schedules, restrict decryption to

On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” Protesters gather at OpenAI’s D

Accelerating agentic RL and evaluation research velocity with 45x faster GKE Agent Sandbox Tinsley Shi Product Manager Tomer Glottmann Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, fron

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol. It is live now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. On FrontierCode 1.1, our proprietary benchmark that grades models on real-world engineering tasks based on quality and mergeability, GPT-6.1 Sol scores 60.4%, in line with GPT-6 Sol (60.7%) and GPT-5.6 So

Eiffel Tower chief to quit after female staff replaced by men during religious visit - Published The chief executive of the company that runs the Eiffel Tower will step down after a backlash over female staff being replaced by male colleagues during a visit by a Hindu religious g

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the White House is launching America.gov, an AI chatbot intended to help people find government services and other information. Google confirmed that it is a partner on this launch and that its AI model, Gemini, is involved. U.S. C

The Trump administration's new chatbot aimed at helping Americans navigate official government websites is powered by artificial intelligence from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said Tuesday. "We have great partners behind the scenes,"

The Trump administration's new chatbot aimed at helping Americans navigate official government websites is powered by artificial intelligence from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said Tuesday. "We have great partners behind the scenes,"

No one wants to be disintermediated. It happened to Yelp and Tripadvisor with Google. It happened to everybody, with Apple. As a general rule, marketplaces want to own the customer relationship and payments, but whoever has the customers may get other ideas. When the power dynami

Figma invests in the UK with expanded London office With our new London office, we’re getting closer to our customers and community. Share Figma invests in the UK with expanded London office Today, Figma announced an expanded office in London. This deepens Figma’s investment in o

The 30-year yield rose above 5.61%, reaching its highest level since 2002 and moving further into territory common before the low-interest-rate era that followed the global financial crisis and pandemic. Elevated energy prices added to inflationary pressure, while heavy corporate

Faisal Islam: Triple lock move is significant, but it's a gamble - Published It was a significant announcement from Prime Minister Andy Burnham on his plans for the triple lock after the general election. It will reverberate well beyond the hall. For months, I have heard suggesti

Artificial Intelligence Prompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick determines how accurately and reliably the platform’s AI-powered features respond to your natural-language requests. Whether you’re building custom agents, authoring automa

Artificial Intelligence Prompt engineering by Quick component: Patterns and pitfalls In Part 1 of this series, we covered the foundational principles of prompt engineering in Amazon Quick: specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework for complex reque

Oura delayed its $2 billion IPO citing market “uncertainty,” a term usually reserved for pandemics, wars, and tariff shocks, not when the Nasdaq is hitting record highs. Indications that the smart ring’s shares were likely to price at the low end of the $40-to-$44 range delayed t

Former Trump antitrust enforcer Gail Slater has held discussions about returning to the private practice of antitrust law, people familiar with the matter tell us, advising companies trying to get mergers past an unpredictable administration. The author of America First Antitrust

Auto stocks to buy: Increased inventory push ahead of the festive season is likely to boost volumes for two wheeler and four wheeler vehicles. As the upcoming festivals like Diwali, Dussehra, Navratri, etc often coincides with higher vehicle sales, Motilal Oswal remains bullish o

The U.S. is still dealing with the impact of Covid 19-related stimulus spending from former President Joe Biden's first year in office, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Tuesday as he defended the Trump administration's handling of the economy. "That's really

Artificial Intelligence Building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore You’re a director of contracting, responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands, of vendor contracts. Each one is packed with critical data: contract values, e

AWS Compute Blog Simplify AMI discovery with Amazon EC2 and SSM Parameter Store If you manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) infrastructure at scale, you have likely encountered the following situation. You release an infrastructure change with the correct Region, the

Five takeaways from Andy Burnham's Labour conference speech - Published Andy Burnham has delivered his first speech to the Labour conference as party leader and prime minister. Here is what stood out. 1. Relaxed vibes, serious content It was no surprise to see Andy Burnham tieles

Laptop chips have gotten very powerful in recent years, with increasing CPU core counts, more powerful iGPUs, and higher DRAM bandwidth to feed that compute. All of that creates pressure on the chip’s system level architecture, which must deliver high bandwidth, service an increa

Saracens face fines over 'wine consultant' Venter's media no-shows - Published Saracens are set to receive a series of fines from Prem Rugby due to director of rugby Brendan Venter's failure to fulfil media commitments. It is understood the club have already been handed a £5,000

Dutch police arrest suspected member of group that claimed FBI hack - Published Dutch police have arrested a suspected member of the ShinyHunters cyber-crime group that claimed to have stolen sensitive information on all FBI bureau staff - around 38,000 people. After the alleged