Browsing: AI & Automation

Caterpillar stock has delivered a very strong 332.0% total return over the past 5 years, yet current checks suggest the shares now look closer to fairly valued than clearly cheap, with only a limited margin between the market price and one widely used intrinsic value estimate. At the same time, traditional earnings multiples still screen…

In its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), China has placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its industrial strategy, but with apparently clashing goals. China wants technological self-reliance and substantial safeguards around its domestic market, but also freely adaptable AI models1, international diffusion of Chinese AI models and greater cooperation in global AI governance2.

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Finofo, the Calgary-built company helping Canadian finance teams modernize accounts payable, today announced the launch of expense management and purchasing on its AI-native platform, expanding from AP automation to every way money leaves the business. Vendor invoices, corporate card expenses, employee claims, purchase orders, approvals, payments, and…

A graphic designer has said he is losing business due to smaller firms choosing to generate their own content using artificial intelligence (AI).

North Carolina reported millions of dollars in losses in 2025 at the hands of artificial intelligence, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation has now begun distinguishing cases that are “AI related” in its annual internet crimes reporting. 

A friend of mine works in compliance at a mid-sized bank. Last quarter, she got pulled into an incident that I keep thinking about, though not for the reasons she does.

On August 12, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B. This is the first time a Qwen-Max-class model has been made available as open weights. With 2.4 trillion total parameters (95 billion activated per token), a hybrid linear-plus-full-attention architecture, and native context up to 262K tokens (extensible to 1M), Qwen3.8 targets the most demanding agentic and…

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 1: Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (R) speaks with Anthropic President Daniela Amodei during the Snowflake Summit 26 at Moscone Center on June 1, 2026 in San Francisco, California. The Snowflake Summit is an annual conference focusing on data and artificial intelligence. (Photo by Minh Connors/

As agentic AI becomes more common in the workplace, many companies have started giving agents personas, assigning the agents human characteristics like names, gender, race and so on.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 03: The Microsoft logo is seen at an Experience Center on Fifth Avenue on April 03, 2024 in New York City. A Cyber Safety Review Board, created in 2021 by executive order and led by Homeland Security, released a report that detailed lapses by Microsoft that led to a…