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PolicyDisney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
FundingStartup Funding News Today, October 19, 2026: Tenstorrent, Nouscom, Even Healthcare, Vessla & More
Global startup funding picked up momentum on Monday, October 19, 2026, as major investments in artificial intelligence,…
PolicyJB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been…
IndustryAACSB Deans Survey Finds AI and Finances Are Top of Mind
Global 2026-27 Deans Survey of 558 leaders identifies artificial intelligence as the clearest professional development challenge…
Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staff
Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without…
ResearchA hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings…
PolicyMicrosoft Adds Guardian Agents to Project Perception for AI Insider Risk
Microsoft on October 19, 2026, announced new security capabilities in Project Perception and Microsoft 365 E7 that treat…
ProductsMotive Technologies revs up new AI Agents to automate fleet management
Motive Technologies Inc. is pushing the needle for fleet management automation with the launch of a new artificial intelligence…
IndustrySecuring the agentic insider
In the last few months, concerns have arisen about AI safety as a growing number of incidents were publicly disclosed. These…
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’
The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listingAnthropic has said it…
MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with about 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. API pricing…
Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new public benefit fund that could address AI job disruption
The Claude maker said that establishing the fund as an LLC will provide greater flexibility in how the money is used.
Investors are buying on Monday despite fear the AI trade nightmare scenario is far from over
Here are the key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
IndustryDemocrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge
Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they’ll need to decide how to approach one of the…
Advancing coding in low‑resource programming languages
Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering,…
US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds
Exclusive: Using test accounts acting as 13-year-olds, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate…
PolicyEdge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action
This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban…
FundingMitsotakis: Greece’s “Daedalus” Supercomputer Marks a €58.9 Million Leap into the AI Era
Greece unveils a major national supercomputing infrastructure in Lavrio, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attending the…
ResearchAI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded…
ResearchYokohama Rubber and dotData begin joint development of a manufacturing AI agent
okohama Rubber Co. and dotData Inc. are jointly developing an artificial intelligence agent designed to help engineers generate…
ProductsPax8 launches 8os to let IT partners govern AI agents and 8bot as a managed AI co-worker
Small business software marketplace Pax8 Inc. today launched 8os, an operating system that lets its information technology…
IndustryWhy AI fearmongering distracts from the real human oversight debate
Artificial intelligence is just a tool, not a doomsday threat. An industry veteran explains why AI fearmongering ignores its…
PolicyDisney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege…
IndustryISB programme explores AI’s growing role in the future of digital finance
The Executive Programme in Fintech and AI at ISB is crafted to equip finance professionals with cutting-edge skills in financial…
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