81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …

China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%
China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%

Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thu…

Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf
Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf

“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,” Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Book…

Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat
Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat

Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agent…

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…

Activision will make the next Halo game as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs
Activision will make the next Halo game as Xbox cuts 268 more jobs

First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. Matt Booty put that in an email to Xbox staff on Tuesday morning. Microsoft published the memo in full on Xbox Wire …

Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses
Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses

Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the dev…

Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027
Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027

“Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,” Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of ne…

Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It …

US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 5…