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How Google Cloud is Bringing Agentic AI Capabilities to HSBC

Google Cloud deploys Gemini AI platform across HSBC operations in multi-year partnership targeting 200 use cases within two years

The path to a frontier AI job, according to a top Google DeepMind engineer

Google DeepMind distinguished engineer Vladimir Feinberg has some blunt advice for those seeking a job at a top AI lab — "work like a dog."

Exclusive: Reddit expands "community intelligence" ad strategy

AI may give recommendations. Reddit wants to provide validation.

Robots will replace 700,000 delivery workers ‘sooner or later’, warns JD.com boss

China’s rapid adoption of technology threatens millions of gig-economy jobs, policymakers fear

Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas

Private equity groups swiftly recreate software products to gauge their competitive advantages

Introducing /goal

Use /goal for long-running autonomous task execution in Grok Build.

I Asked an AI to Audit My Own Career

I had a quarter of OKRs and no clue whether I was hitting them. Enter Codex.

SZA says musicians who support AI are “disgusting.”

“I hope u have the life u deserve,” is just vicious.

What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.

GLM-5.2, a new open-source Chinese AI model for long-form coding tasks, is turning heads among Silicon Valley's AI elite.

China is having another AI moment

America’s lead over China in artificial intelligence may be at its smallest in over a year. When China disrupted the ai race in January 2025 with the release of DeepSeek r1, it erased $1trn from America’s capital markets. Nvidia, a chip firm, briefly shed 17% of its value; the Nasdaq sank by 3.1% in a day. American investors were troubled not only because Chinese ai was good, but because it was being given away free. The uproar soon faded. Since then, market valuations everywhere have hinged ever more on the promise that ai will be both revolutionary and profitable.

Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds

Kapwing found 59% of TikTok videos shown to new accounts are AI slop, three times YouTube’s rate, with kids’ content the worst-hit category.

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.