“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cu…
AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Hu…
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
“Connecting a real-life home to an AI agent allows that agent to control devices on your behalf,” Google warns in its developer documentation. “Depending on your agent, connecting it to Home MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behaviour.” Th…
Huawei’s mimics Nvidia’s approach to AI factories, unveils details about next-generation Ascend NPUs, Kunpeng CPUs, scale-up and scale-out connectivity solutions.
“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, o…
“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens…
“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Ta…
A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirit’s to sell. Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive. …
Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industry stokes them for publicity and to shape regulation. The EU AI Act alread…