Browsing: AI & Automation

Asian stock markets mostly rose on Monday morning, boosted by global demand for artificial intelligence technology and positive signals from trade talks over the weekend between Chinese and US officials.

Investors choosing between Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) and ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) face a classic dilemma: do you buy the architect of mobile computing or the gatekeeper of advanced chip manufacturing?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described warnings that AI could lead to humanity’s extinction by the next decade as “doomsday narratives”.

A former OpenAI contributor says the next automation breakthrough may not speak back at all, but quietly choose the right action.

Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau urged employers to explain automation and retraining plans and be frank about possible retrenchments or slower hiring.

CDO Magazine’s Boston Executive Boardroom Dinner brought enterprise leaders together to discuss workflow automation, trust and transparency, and keeping agentic AI aligned with changing business priorities.

Mistral AI dropped Shieldstral 1.0 on August 4, 2026, and it changed a basic assumption behind most AI guardrails: that you have to bake a fixed list of harm categories into a model before you can ship it. Shieldstral instead takes your safety policy as plain English text at inference time, scores the input or…

Three coding-focused AI models are splitting the leaderboards this month, and none of them agree on who’s actually winning. Claude Fable 5.1 tops Anthropic’s own coding-specialist line. GPT-5.6 Sol leads the independent SWE-bench Verified harness at 96.2%. And GLM-5.3, released by Z.ai on August 14, 2026, just posted the biggest single-version jump of the year…

On Saturday, Sept. 19, President Trump opened a poll on X and on his own platform, Truth Social, calling for a name change to “Artificial Intelligence.”

Just a few years ago, large language models, or LLMs, seemed above all to be extraordinary tools for working with text: writing, summarizing, translating, and answering questions. Then they learned to understand and generate images, sounds, and video. They gained the ability to tackle increasingly complex problems through forms of reasoning, to use external tools,…