You’re likely familiar with some version of this narrative: companies adopt AI, performance gains eventually plateau, and leaders are left wondering about the ROI from their investments. Experts disagree on how to remedy this gap between adoption and results. Some call for better governance, others for better deployment. Or my personal favorite, better enablement. Each […]

New Harris Poll research on behalf of World finds that 81% of singles would be more likely to use a dating app if every profile were confirmed as a real person. As millions of singles celebrate Singles Day on November 11, the biggest question in online dating is no longer “are we compatible?” but “are […]

London-based chip designer Fractile has raised $720 million in a Series C round, betting that memory bandwidth, rather than raw computing power, is the main constraint holding back AI performance. The funding values the four-year-old company at $7 billion, according to the Financial Times, which cited people familiar with the deal. Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, […]

ElevenLabs will help businesses fine-tune AI models on data from their own customer conversations, and opened early access to ElevenAI, an app that takes meeting notes. It also launched a partner programme and marketplace, and expanded its deal with Nvidia. ElevenLabs will help businesses fine-tune AI models on data from their own customer conversations, the […]

Microsoft will switch on Anthropic’s Claude models by default for UK Copilot customers from 9 December, The Register reported. Anthropic processes that data in the US. Richard Speed wrote for The Register that UK organisations with no setting chosen by then will have Claude enabled. Administrators can still turn it off. Leaving the setting untouched […]

IBM’s next quantum chip, Nighthawk r3, is designed to run 10,000 operations on 520 qubits. IBM plans to link two of them into a 1,040-qubit system in 2027. Customers report speedups of up to 19x on the current Nighthawk chip. IBM plans to build a quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits in 2027 by […]

German defence company Helsing has launched Clarity, a direct challenge to Palantir. The AI platform helps armed forces turn drone, satellite and sensor data into targets. Helsing says it builds the software in Europe, under European control. Clarity pulls in sensor feeds, open sources, written reports and the systems a unit already runs. It finds […]

Google Labs has launched Tabletop, an experiment that builds custom tools such as trip itineraries, dinner polls and expense splitters from a prompt. Groups share one space and edit it together in real time. It is open to US adults via a waitlist. Google has launched Tabletop, an experiment from its Google Labs team that […]

AWS has released UAEF, a free open-source tool that tests AI agents on 36 measures, from tool use to safety. It works across several agent frameworks and flags when a new prompt or model makes an agent worse. Amazon Web Services has released a free tool that tests whether changes to an AI agent made […]

StitchStudio has raised $8M led by Voyager Capital to expand its AI agents for insurance carriers and brokers. The agents handle tasks such as quote comparison and billing checks inside existing systems, and every action can be audited. StitchStudio, an Oregon startup that builds AI agents for insurers, has raised $8M in a round led […]