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ServiceNow adds AI agent controls and employee automation tools
ServiceNow Inc. today announced new controls for governing artificial intelligence agents alongside updates to its EmployeeWorks information portal (pictured) that let employees build specialized...
The code confidence gap nobody’s talking about
AI has changed the economics of software creation: A task that once took hours to implement can now start with an agent producing an initial solution in minutes. As agents take on broader...
Agentic AI doesn’t have a model problem. It has a retrieval problem.
On BrowseComp-Plus, GPT-4.1 answered 93.49% of the questions correctly when it was given the supporting documents directly. When an agent used the same model but relied on BM25 to search for evidence...
Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff
Last year, Amazon bought Bee , a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee...
Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize...
Presentation: What 25 Trillion Tokens Reveal About How Developers Actually Adopt AI Agents
Brendan O'Leary discusses how real-world AI adoption depends on building trust rather than chasing model benchmarks. Drawing from 40 trillion tokens of usage data, he explains the four rungs of the...
Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked
Eiliko. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge There's a new digital pet in town - a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your...
TSMC Hits Record Profit for Sixth Straight Quarter on AI Chip Demand
TSMC reported a record third-quarter profit Thursday, beating analyst estimates as global demand for AI chips continued to surge. The Taiwanese chipmaker posted net income of NT$763.1 billion,...
Russian IT Group Seeks 15 Billion Rubles for AI Chip to Rival Nvidia by 2030
A working group called "AI Support Measures" - made up of IT company representatives, industry association experts, and federal and regional government officials - has backed a request for state or...
GhostAction Credential Theft Hits 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Sweeps 30,000 Repositories
The credential-stealing campaign tracked as GhostAction escalated sharply in October 2026, reaching more than 30,000 repositories tied to 3,000 users and organizations, according to GitGuardian....
RIAA Flags Anna’s Archive and AI Voice Cloner to U.S. Government
Every year, the U.S. Trade Representative ( USTR ) invites rightsholders and other stakeholders to suggest foreign sites and services for its list of “notorious markets.” The annual review doesn’t...
Ricursive Intelligence pitches AI-designed chips as answer to compute crunch
Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini say AI that designs chips could ease the coming compute crisis. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday, the pair described a...
Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging harm to children
Eight US states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, accusing the company of harming children, misleading parents and violating users' rights, according to court documents....
Eight States Sue OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Harms Children
Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday, claiming ChatGPT is an unsafe product that has harmed children and misled parents. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona,...
CedarDB Pitches One Database for Transactions and Analytics as AI Agents Raise the Stakes
Databases have typically been split into two camps: analytical systems for spotting trends and answering business questions, and operational systems for day-to-day records like orders and payments....
Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Ahead of IPO, Anthropic reveals its revenue grew 45% sequentially to $16.8B in Q3
Anthropic PBC pulled in $16.8 billion in revenue during the third quarter, according to a report today by the Financial Times — and also achieved profitability on an adjusted basis for the first...
LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 15, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs : 64-day certificates...
Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.
Linux creator and longtime lead maintainer Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that developers have struggled with for more than two years. On...