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UN Secretary-General Warns of ‘Perfect Storm’ of Global Risks

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres explains the “perfect storm” of threats he sees creating an “enormous risk for the global society.” He also addresses the absence of the US from the Paris Agreement and the reach of artificial intelligence across the global environment. He speaks with Jennifer Zabasajja on the sidelines of COP31 in Turkey. (Source: Bloomberg)

McKinsey’s Sternfels on Corporate Crisis Management, AI Impact

McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels discusses how companies should prepare for corporate crises, from succession planning to strong and independent governance. Speaking exclusively on “The Pulse With Francine Lacqua” amid the leadership crisis at Nvidia, Sternfels also discusses how AI is reshaping McKinsey and its workforce, what CEOs are getting wrong about adopting the technology, and vulnerabilities in global trade. (Source: Bloomberg)

Maga architects blame Big Tech and AI data centres for midterms rout

Head of Heritage Foundation admits Republicans’ embrace of Silicon Valley and the effect of Donald Trump’s Iran war cost them votes

Struggling marijuana farmers pivot to becoming AI data center sites to escape falling weed revenue

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex

With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.

Your AI agent is only as good as your endpoint data

PARTNER CONTENT: Real-time endpoint data keeps AI-driven IT operations accurate, fast and under control

Rethinking Memory For AI Inference

Processing data closer to memory could reduce power and boost performance, but software, thermal, and architectural challenges remain. The post Rethinking Memory For AI Inference appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Beyond Bandwidth: AI Inference Is Reshaping The Memory Wall

Longer contexts, higher concurrency, multimodal models, and AI agents will continue changing where memory pressure appears. The post Beyond Bandwidth: AI Inference Is Reshaping The Memory Wall appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

The Semiconductor Singularity: When AI Starts Accelerating The Silicon That Accelerates AI

Use evidence from silicon to improve the tools and decisions that create the next generation of hardware. The post The Semiconductor Singularity: When AI Starts Accelerating The Silicon That Accelerates AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Designing Edge AI SoCs At Near-Threshold: Why Foundation IP Can Help You Break Down The Power Wall

Traditional voltage scaling is no longer sufficient to deliver real-time performance within tight energy and thermal limits. The post Designing Edge AI SoCs At Near-Threshold: Why Foundation IP Can Help You Break Down The Power Wall appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

The Memory Challenge Of Physical AI

Right-size the memory hierarchy around the device's data streams, reuse patterns, latency requirements, and operating constraints. The post The Memory Challenge Of Physical AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Foundation IP For The AI Era: Why Execution Shapes SoC Cost ─ eBook

How an integrated foundation IP strategy can reduce execution risk, enable faster tape-out, and lower TCO. The post Foundation IP For The AI Era: Why Execution Shapes SoC Cost ─ eBook appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Sex, spies and salaries shake up AI chipmakers

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

Mastercard Sees Agentic AI Transforming e-Commerce

Mastercard Asia Pacific President Richard Wormald says agentic AI may create a new machine-to-machine commerce channel, with its growth depending heavily on consumer trust. He spoke on Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Supplier Hon Hai Predicts Robust Growth After Profit Beat

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. predicted strong sales growth for next year due to soaring worldwide AI spending after earning a quarterly profit that beat estimates.

The AI megatrade’s mounting portfolio concentration risk problem

There aren’t enough baskets to safely cope with this many massive eggs

Huang falls out of favour in Washington

AI kingmaker’s opponents see ‘blood in the water’ after affair with suspected Chinese spy

Supporting research on AI and children’s safety

OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.

Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI

A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.

The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

United won’t let your AI agent book your flight

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash. But United is concerned [...]

Sequoia Capital to Invest in AI Holding Co. Sequence

Sequoia Capital is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Sequence Holding, a one-year-old business that just announced a $7.7 billion insurance acquisition co-led by Michael Dell’s family office, say people familiar with the matter. This will be Sequoia’s second known investment in a new category of holding companies. These aim to buy businesses in established industries such as accounting, insurance and HOA management and then replace or complement some human work with AI. The new money raised from Sequoia is likely to allow Sequence, which has been scouting for targets, to make more acquisitions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ultrasound and AI turn off-the-shelf smartwatch into full-body tracker without cameras

For the first time, researchers can track the movement of a person's entire body with ultrasonic sound waves, using just an off-the-shelf smartwatch and a lightweight artificial intelligence model—all while ensuring privacy and efficiency.

Why the data center you dread might never even be built

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there's a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure [...]

United is restricting AI agents from booking flights

The airline believes AI poses security risks and may violate DOT and FAA rules.

ByteDance is reportedly working on its own AI agent

The Chinese company wants to compete with Meta's Muse.

Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.

Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.

Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.

Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.

OpenAI and Georgia county leaders hit with Mafia-style RICO racketeering lawsuit over $30 billion AI data center

The plaintiffs alleged that the parties committed fraud and concealment through NDAs and misleading public statements.

AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease

Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.

The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still...

Experience the art and legacy of Dr. Esther Mahlangu

A new online archive of Esther Mahlangu’s life and art is now on Google Arts & Culture.

ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material

Vision AI and robotics pick what’s worth recovering out of conveyor belts of used clothing, bottles and mixed recyclables, diverting thousands of tons of materials from landfills.

JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini. See what’s new in this partnership.

The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a...

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout. See how it works.

Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth

AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.

Helping caregivers use AI in everyday life

OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.

Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT

Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.

Closing the AI guidance gap in education

New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.

Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity

Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety

Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation

Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components.  The shift from locomotion to manipulation is taking center stage at this week’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in [...]

The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made  —By Mary Nichols, distinguished counsel at the UCLA School of Law and the former chair of the California Air Resources Board,...

Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of bringing products to market. For specialty chemicals manufacturer Lubrizol, digital transformation is all about giving researchers the tools to test ideas faster, make better-informed...

Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and autonomous vehicles. These efforts are helping bring physical AI from development into real-world production. Samsung Advances Semiconductor Engineering With [...]

Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with NVIDIA OpenShell to support secure AI agents for employee productivity and enterprise workflows. A key [...]

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

IEEE Computer Society Chapter Offers Webinars With Industry Experts

To help engineers keep up with emerging technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and sustainable infrastructure, and learn how they can be applied in practice, the IEEE Computer Society’s Central Indiana Chapter recently launched its Tech Talk Series.The live webinar series connects IEEE members, undergrad and graduate students, and engineering professionals from IEEE Region 4 with industry practitioners. The monthly sessions have covered AI governance and security, agentic systems, and related topics. The sessions featured speakers from Apple, software company Tavant, and cybersecurity concern Zscaler.Upcoming sessions and registration details are available on the IEEE Region 4 virtual events calendar.Technical discussions grounded in engineeringRather than presenting on emerging technologies only at a conceptual level, speakers discussed the design decisions behind specific tools and systems, how the systems are structured, and implementation challenges. They also shared lessons learned from using the tools in their daily work.Sessions also include technical walkthroughs and practical examples.The live format allows attendees to discuss and compare their approaches when evaluating and implementing new technologies with those used by other organizations.Extending access through a virtual formatThe organizers chose to make the series virtual so that chapter members and other attendees could participate in technical discussions with engineers from major technology companies and eliminate the need to travel.For young professionals, the sessions connect what they’ve learned in a classroom with the realities of the workplace.Technical programs such as the Tech Talk Series give professionals and students access to expertise, help create connections across career levels, and make important engineering discussions available to a broader community.Attendees learn how practitioners approach projects such as system architecture, reliability, security, governance, and product delivery. For experienced professionals, the talks offer a forum to examine new ways of designing, securing, and operating software systems, and compare technical approaches. They can ask questions relevant to systems being evaluated or deployed within their organization.Examining governed AI agentsThe most recent webinar, Feeding and Fencing AI Agents: Engineering Governed Agentic Systems on Real-Time Data, featured Gajendra Babu Thokala, a senior engineering leader at Apple in Seattle.The IEEE senior member explained how teams can move beyond adding isolated AI features to applications and instead build governed AI-agent systems that use real-time business data to complete multistep business workflows.Another recent session, Building AI Native Products: A Playbook for Agentic Systems, explored how products built around AI agents differ from traditional software. It also covered how agentic systems can help users complete multistep tasks and workflows. IEEE Senior Member Sandeep Shivam, a product and technology leader at Tavant in Dallas, led the webinar.Those two sessions illustrate the series’ purpose: helping participants understand what a technology can do and what is required to use it responsibly.Building a continuing technical programFuture sessions are being planned on areas including enterprise AI, software reliability, and responsible AI usage. In addition to speakers from technology companies, the chapter also plans to invite speakers from startups, universities, and research organizations.Upcoming sessions are expected to cover cloud platforms, enterprise integrations, and the responsible development of AI systems. Technical programs such as the Tech Talk Series give professionals and students access to expertise, help create connections across career levels, and make important engineering discussions available to a broader community.Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate to gain exposure to technical decision-making and challenges encountered in professional engineering environments.

The latest AI news we announced in October 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from October 2026