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Artificial intelligence is creating new demands for pharmaceutical research, increasing pressure on all kinds of resources needed to develop and test potential treatments – including animal test subjects.

Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep-pockets of the IT world, as customers. But as any company that sells to enterprises will tell you, it’s not easy to win such contracts.

The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had a reputation for being ahead of the curve. At the time, Microsoft was heavily pushing touchscreen computing in an attempt to innovate and embrace new possibilities when interfacing with machines; Jobs dug his heels in and refused to take Apple down that same path.

Last month, advertising company Infillion acquired location-data platform Foursquare, a once popular social network, at an undisclosed value. Now, in a new blog post, Foursquare co-founder and former CEO Dennis Crowley said that investors didn’t see any returns from the sale.

Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns about MCP (model context protocol), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools, the company is expanding its support for the open

The future of AI lies squarely in the physical realm, according to many industry figures such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Much of the evolution of AI in recent years has, as expected, been in aid of building machines that can learn quicker, think faster, and interact with the physical world in a more compelling…

Many AI developers and frontier labs are openly pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI), which scientists describe as human-like intelligence in which a model can reason like humans and learn new capabilities outside its training data. But does that mean that they’re all on the right path?

LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 16: A placard reading ‘Pause AI the risk is too high’ is seen on the ground on Whitehall near Downing Street on September 16, 2026 in London, England. PAUSE AI are asking the government to listen to the people and consider the dangers of AI. They say there are real-life harms…

The computing industry owes a lot to the guiding vision of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, whose prediction about the pace of advancement in the computing industry has been a fixture for more than 50 years. But how much room does this rule have left to run?