Corporate Profits Soared Fueled By AI Investment As Markets Gear Up For Q3 Earnings Corporate profits reached an all-time record of more than $4.7 trillion in the second quarter International Business Times · Oct 13
Musk's $366 Million: The Biggest Midterms Political Donation Spree in U.S. History for the Battle Over Congress Musk tops his 2024 record with $366M in 2026 midterm giving. A breakdown of where the money went and why Democrats call it their best weapon. Latin Times · Oct 13
Kroger to Axe 3,000 Jobs in Major Layoff as Retail Giant Moves to Cut Costs Kroger plans to cut 3,000 corporate jobs over three years, affecting about 37% of its corporate workforce, as it reduces overheads and faces Walmart and Aldi. International Business Times UK · Oct 13
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work The Guardian - US · Oct 13
AI Could Soon Copy Itself Onto Smart TVs or Fridges. Anthropic Says it Could Happen in a Matter of Months. Company findings show progress toward autonomous replication, but researchers have not demonstrated a fully rogue AI system spreading through real-world devices. International Business Times · Oct 13
Brazil's Top Court Orders Lula and Flávio to Pull Videos: What the TSE's Censorship Battle Means for the Runoff Brazil's TSE ordered Lula, Janja, and Flávio Bolsonaro to delete campaign videos before the Oct. 25 runoff — raising serious free-speech alarms. Latin Times · Oct 13
Declassified 'General Nuclear War' Documents Describe a Hypothetical Nuclear Strike on Washington DC Declassified Cold War records describe the catastrophic risks of general nuclear war, while the specific claim of a hypothetical strike on Washington, DC, remains unverified. International Business Times UK · Oct 13
Novelist Thélyson Orélien rejects AI claims after bestseller pulled from French prize list Thélyson Orélien, the Haitian-Canadian writer whose best-selling debut novel was pulled from the prestigious Goncourt prize list amid an AI uproar, said Tuesday "not a single sentence" had been written by a machine. He did, however, admit to "unacceptable mistakes" regarding accusations of plagiarism involving earlier works. France 24 · Oct 13
Flex's AI Infrastructure Spin-Off Could Unlock Hidden Value Flex launches modular Axiom AI data center racks ahead of its planned 2027 Axiom Solutions International spin-off, a move designed to separate high-margin AI infrastructure from its legacy manufacturing business. MarketBeat · Oct 13
AI Video Game Mashups Are Going Viral, but Do They Cross the Line Into Copyright Infringement? AI-generated game mashups are going viral on social media, but their legality under UK copyright law depends on which assets or code they reproduce and how they are used. International Business Times UK · Oct 13
AI linked to ‘churn’ and redundancies in recent months, minister says High-level executives from major multinational tech firms will attend the AI Summit at the RDS on Wednesday. Evening Standard · Oct 13
Viral Trend Might Have Exposed Major Issue With Missing People Posters With Age Progression Photos A viral AI trend has netizens questioning the accuracy of age-progression images, saying: “That's why nobody finds the missing people [on] the milk carton.” Bored Panda · Oct 13
AFL tells Sportsbet to stop using players in AI-generated content Exclusive: Gambling firm working with AFL ‘on the evolving use of AI in our content’ as it deletes video depicting Lachie Neale saying ‘I want to thank me for believing in me’ The Guardian - AU · Oct 13
Employees all over the world find themselves monitored by AI at work The latest example of workers under surveillance comes from Co-op, a British consumer cooperative that runs thousands of businesses The Guardian - US · Oct 13
MarketBeat · Oct 13 A Silent Winner: Texas Instruments Anchors the AI Supercycle Texas Instruments launched new power management and telemetry chips for AI data centers, positioning its analog business as a dividend-paying infrastructure play ahead of Q3 earnings on Oct. 21.
International Business Times UK · Oct 13 Anthropic Warns AI 'Worms' Could Soon Spread on Their Own Across Smart Ovens, TVs, and Other Cheap Devices Anthropic researchers warn that improving small AI models could soon form self-replicating worms across insecure household devices, though current systems remain unreliable.
The Economic Times · Oct 13 AI services may account for almost half of Infosys' work in 2-3 years: CEO Salil Parekh Parekh said the business, which includes building AI agents, coding work and modernising old technology for clients, is small relative to the company's size but growing so fast that it could account for 20-30% of Infosys' work within a few quarters if the current pace continues.
MarketBeat · Oct 13 Amazon's $220 Billion AI Bet Is Getting Bigger—Can Earnings Justify the Spending? Amazon heads into Q3 earnings with AWS growth strong but $220 billion in AI spending and a reported Decart acquisition talk raising questions about returns, margins, and cash flow.
Fortune · Oct 13 ‘The amazement is kind of wearing off a little bit’: Wharton survey reveals managers are learning what Gen Z already figured out In the future, Wharton’s Sonny Tambe and Jeremy Korst told Fortune, it may be a manager’s job to say “That's AI.”
The Times of India · Oct 13 Anthropic Abuse Limits For AI: Claude can end abusive chats Anthropic has drawn a line on how people treat artificial intelligence. The company behind the Claude chatbot has updated its usage policy to prohibit “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” towards its AI models, going so far as to give the model the ability to end conversations in certain…
Evening Standard · Oct 13 Londoners face new AI bioweapons terror danger: Key points from MI5 Director General’s threat speech MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum has given his annual threat speech, where he has warned the agency’s state threats caseload has quadrupled in the past 10 years
Evening Standard · Oct 13 Shark's new FlexStyle rivals my beloved Dyson Airwrap for shine and long-lasting curls Shark’s new multi-function hair dryer is changing the styling game
The Economic Times · Oct 13 High data centre, chip costs and cheaper AI models pose risks to capacity usage: Infosys CEO High data centre and chip costs, coupled with emerging AI models offering cheaper inference, pose risks to AI infrastructure investments and future capacity utilisation, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said.
The Economic Times · Oct 13 Bumble swipes right on $1.3 billion go-private deal amid online dating industry reset Bumble said on Tuesday it had agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a deal valued at $1.3 billion, as the dating app pushes forward with its months-long turnaround amid
Evening Standard · Oct 13 AI could give terrorists access to bioweapons if guardrails fail – MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum gave his annual speech on threats to the UK at Thames House on Tuesday.