Anthropic has launched Cowork, a file and task management AI agent built for non-programmers. The company reportedly built it in about a week and a half using its own Claude Code product. This move signals a major push into autonomous AI tools, but raises big questions about security and the future
In an interview, Demis Hassabis said parts of the AI industry, like multi-billion dollar seed rounds for startups with no product, look unsustainable. He remains confident in Google’s position, highlighting Gemini’s growth and a focus on multimodal AI for real-world assistants.
A new blueprint reveals the massive gap between AI hype and reality in banking. While adoption jumped to 58%, progress is stalling because of fragmented data and poor governance. Here’s what needs to change.
According to a Dark Reading analysis, 2025 was a wake-up call that cyber risk is a decision problem, not just a technical one. Major incidents at Change Healthcare, Ascension, and the global CrowdStrike outage showed that when systems become unreliable, human judgment falters.
Major software stocks have plunged at least 30% since early 2023, rocked by the rise of AI coding tools. The investor narrative has shifted from seeing AI as a tailwind to asking if it’s an existential threat to traditional software business models.
Microsoft is launching a suite of “agentic AI” solutions aimed at automating retail operations. The tools include Copilot Checkout for in-chat sales and agents for merchandising and store management. This marks a clear push beyond generative AI into systems that perform complex tasks.
The AI giants are pivoting to health care, with OpenAI rolling out HIPAA-compliant tools for hospitals and a consumer health chatbot. But the life-or-death stakes introduce massive new risks and regulatory hurdles that didn’t exist for coding assistants.
New Zealand’s labor pool is expanding at its fastest pace since late 2023. A surge in foreign workers is driving the change as the economy shows signs of shaking off its recession.
In a major move for AI infrastructure, power firm Babcock & Wilcox is teaming up with Siemens Energy to supply steam turbine generators. The goal is to deliver a whopping 1 gigawatt of power for an Applied Digital AI data center by the end of 2028. It’s a sign of how traditional energy giants are pi
Zhipu AI, a leading Chinese challenger to OpenAI, has gone public in Hong Kong, making its chairman a billionaire overnight. The listing, however, was less explosive than some hoped, revealing the complex pressures facing China’s AI ambitions.
