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Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It […]
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Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a tool that speeds up its vision model on devices. Liquid AI, spun […]
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Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by Coatue, at a $4.8bn valuation. The company now pitches itself as […]
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Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 September, and no financial details were disclosed. The combined company will make Madrid its global centre for sustainability, data and AI work. It has more than […]
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Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, […]
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Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he said. Sheth spoke on Thursday at HumanX in Amsterdam with Business Insider senior […]
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AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data center projects, he said. The idea that labs can voluntarily do their own thing is “not going to work,” he said. Clegg is Meta’s former president of global affairs and now a general partner at Hiro […]
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“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,” Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Booking.com built AI orchestrations and other tools it now wishes it […]
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Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project Suncatcher. A prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Google built the satellite with Planet, the Earth-imaging company. The mission will measure how the chips […]
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Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said. Amazon was then starting to invest heavily in agents. Sivasubramanian spoke on Wednesday at HumanX in Amsterdam. Citing analysts, he said 17% of organizations have successfully deployed AI agents and […]
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