Samsung is making aggressive moves to position itself for the AI era with a major executive reshuffle. The company promoted 161 employees to executive positions, focusing heavily on AI and semiconductor talent. This represents a significant generational shift as Samsung leans into younger leaders wi
Google just added AI image detection to its Gemini app, but there’s a huge catch. It only reliably identifies images made by Google’s own AI tools. For everything else, the results are wildly inconsistent across different chatbots.
Ubisoft has unveiled “Teammates,” an AI system that lets players command NPCs using natural voice conversations. The technology enables complex squad tactics and real-time assistance without pausing gameplay. Testing with 300 players began in October, though no public release date is set.
Bloomberg’s AI team has developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy on the challenging Spider 2.0 benchmark. The system balances speed and accuracy using a multi-agent approach inspired by software testing practices.
PayPal has integrated direct checkout capabilities into Perplexity’s AI chatbot, allowing purchases from major retailers without leaving the chat. The system uses PayPal’s existing payment protection infrastructure. But with AI still prone to errors, is this really the future of shopping?
Warner Music Group has settled its copyright lawsuit against AI music startup Suno and entered into a partnership that includes selling concert platform Songkick. The deal gives WMG artists control over AI usage and will lead to licensed AI music models launching next year. This follows last week’s
GPU-as-a-service providers are caught between commoditization and competing with their biggest customers. CoreWeave’s Q2 results show explosive growth but also massive losses and heavy customer concentration. The path forward requires careful strategic navigation.
Anthropic has dramatically reduced pricing for its flagship Claude Opus 4.5 model by 67%, bringing input tokens to $5 per million and output tokens to $25 per million. The move comes amid rapid-fire releases from competitors Google and OpenAI, reshaping the enterprise AI landscape.
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser offers a sobering take on AI in game development. He says current AI lacks the nuance for complex creative challenges and that transformative claims are often exaggerated for investors.
Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels sees AI-powered personalized learning becoming accessible to everyone by 2026. He also argues that CTOs make “horrible managers” and should focus on technology strategy rather than people management. The predictions come amid growing AI investment and workforce transformat
