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Why NVIDIA is Backing Britain’s AI Safety With US$250m Push

NVIDIA commits US$250m in compute to boost UK agentic AI safety, bridging frontier lab research with real-world deployments across critical public sectors

Opella and Candex: Simplifying Spend, Maintaining Control

Candex’s Jeremy Lappin and Opella’s Lyvio Frimat discuss how their partnership simplifies procurement by streamlining tail spend management

Lyvio Frimat: Excellence Today for Procurement of Tomorrow

Opella’s Lyvio Frimat explains how radical digital and cultural transformation is equipping his procurement team to adapt to a rapidly shifting world

Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’

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Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees, or 6% of workforce

Netflix will lay off roughly 6% of its workforce, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.

Social Security Administration Announces 3.6% Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2027

With a 3.6% COLA for 2027, Social Security retirement benefit checks will go up by $75 per month, on average, the agency said.

LucidPoint Brings Combat Fighter Tactics to Cloud Spend Rule

Mike Fontaine, President and CEO of LucidPoint, will lead an NYC event offering FinOps tactics to stop cloud cash burn

Nothing smart glasses rumor claims two different versions are on the way, including an audio-only model.

In a post spotted by Android Authority, leaker Roland Quandt says the audio-only version of Nothing’s rumored glasses won’t have cameras, similar to Meta’s new audio-only Ray-Bans. Quandt adds that Nothing’s glasses will also have “auto tinting photocromic lenses,” and says there will be a camera-equipped version with ChatGPT and translation features.

AI agents are on a shopping spree: Total payments on Base blockchain eclipse 138 million, Chainalysis finds

The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out Internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom. That’s according to a new report by the blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, which found developers are increasingly giving AI agents their own budgets to buy the computing power, live web data, and code tools they need to complete tasks.

Fragment raises $12 million to help keep AI agents from going rogue with company money

Keeping the books straight is a business headache. As companies turn to AI to automate routine financial tasks, they face a new worry: whether they can trust bots with company money. Fragment, a New York-based startup, is developing software designed to reduce costly accounting errors.

Consumer prices rose 3.7% annually in September as gas prices skyrocket

The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.6% in September on a monthly basis and 3.6% from a year ago, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

JPMorgan Chase is keeping AI agents out.

During an earnings call on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made it clear how he feels about AI agents: “We’re not going to allow just any… outside agent to come in inside the company, because it’s just too risky for clients and for JPMorgan.”