UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annu…

Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030
Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030

Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away…

DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale
DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires ev…

OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

“We’re going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities,” Sam Yam wrote on X. The Patreon co-founder started the company 13 years ago…

OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI
OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI

“Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,” OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lea…

Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe
Thinking Machines signs $65m-a-year inference deal with Crusoe

“Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML infrastructure lead at…

Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio
Google’s new Gemini TTS models can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio

“Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,” Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash…

Alibaba claims new Qwen Image 2.1 AI model beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with minuscule 7B parameter model

Alibaba Group’s AI division has released Qwen 2.1 Image, an ultra-lightweight image generation model with just 7B parameters, able to run on local hardware like the RTX 3090.

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship

“Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New Yor…

Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick
Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick

“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesda…