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Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and Triggers Scam Concerns

Payments company Block has introduced an artificial intelligence model trained solely using human conversation. Dessa, as the model is known, learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening, Block said in its announcement Friday (

OpenAI Training AI in Systems Shut Off From Web Access

OpenAI says it has adopted new security protocols for training its artificial intelligence models. That means placing the models in a closed system without access to the internet, the AI startup announced Friday (Oct. 23). “Working closely

Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork for Enterprise Users

Anthropic says it has unified Claude chat and Cowork for its enterprise customers. The new offering combines chat and Cowork on web, desktop and mobile, meaning users don’t have to choose between the two services before starting, Anthropic

Japan Forms AI Cyber Unit as PHP Flaws Disrupt Transport and Banks

SoftBank halted disaster warnings while carriers, lenders and rail operators took digital services offline following global vulnerabilities in core web code.

Cross-border E-commerce Weekly: AliExpress and Tmall Join Forces; Walmart Opens AI Agent Shopping; eBay Announces Another Round of Global Layoffs

Striding AI Unveils Two Retail Robots Reaching 99% Autonomy

Singapore startup plans commercial launch in 2027 to automate overnight convenience shifts.

Thailand AI Token Usage Jumps 30-Fold as Retail Deployments Expand

Only 12.4 per cent of Thailand’s working-age population regularly uses AI, compared with 60 per cent in Singapore.

Customers Bank Uses AI to Close Commercial Loans in 7 Days

Commercial loans can take weeks to close, and Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank put its typical wait at 30 to 60 days. A pilot of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered process closed select commercial loans in seven days, the bank said i

Shoppers Would Send AI Agents to Marketplaces Over Brand Sites

Artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agents could make it easier for consumers to compare products and complete purchases, but they may not change where shoppers spend their money. Even when an autonomous AI assistant can purchase the same

Walmart unveils AI agent shopping controls, spending limits

Walmart wants its shoppers to stay in control as artificial intelligence (AI) agents take on a bigger role across ecommerce. The retailer is rolling out new tools designed to let customers oversee AI agent purchases, streamline how agents s

SpaceX Enlists 130 Tech Leaders to Help Businesses Deploy Grok AI

SpaceX has launched a partner program that offers training, tools and support to companies that build products, solutions and services with the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok, according to a Thursday (Oct. 22) press rele

Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide

Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI trains models on the outcome of a whole multi-step task rather than labeled steps. This hands-on guide walks the full pipeline using Wordle: deploying the agent and reward on A

Anthropic and Hg Form Company to Embed AI Engineers in European Enterprises

Anthropic and London-based private equity firm Hg have agreed to create an independent company that will embed consultants and engineers into European businesses and help those firms deploy artificial intelligence (AI), The Financial Times

LSEG Pays $3.5 Billion to Feed Wall Street’s AI

Artificial intelligence is reducing the time and cost of financial research, but the data behind that research is becoming more valuable. Two investments announced Thursday (Oct. 22) illustrate the shift. London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK

Updating a SageMaker AI endpoint that has Application Auto Scaling registered makes AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK deployments fail. This post shows how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct with CloudFormation custom resources that deregis

Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps

Amazon Quick Sight layer maps now support Point and LineString geometry from the same GeoJSON workflow, so you can plot store locations and the routes between them. This post covers the dataset and GeoJSON structure layer maps require, when

Amex Plans Job Cuts, Sets AI Rules as Gen Z Spending Jumps 35%

American Express is cutting management layers and expanding artificial intelligence across customer service and commerce, with rules governing how outside agents reach customers’ accounts and benefits. According to a Friday (Oct. 23) third-

How Bayer Crop Science built an agentic decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with AWS Unified Operations

Bayer Crop Science built the Agentic Decision Engine (ADE), a multi-agent platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets breeders, analysts, and researchers ask natural language questions about their analytics platform. This post covers the

LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape

How to identify content gaps for AI visibility

Learning how to identify content gaps for AI visibility starts with a question that traditional content gap analysis doesn’t always answer: where could a brand contribute something useful to an AI-generated answer, but isn’t being mentioned

Which AI prompts should you track? A practical guide

For most teams, the answer to “which prompts should I track?” is this: track a representative sample of branded, unbranded, and competitor prompts across buyer stages, personas, and priority markets. Don’t fall into the trap of tracking eve

8 LLM visibility tools to track your brand across answer engines

Large language model (LLM) visibility tools track brand mentions, citations, and share of voice across answer engines. According to Digitaloft, 80% of users rely on zero-click results at least 40% of the time, meaning they often get what th