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UC Berkeley historian Trevor Jackson traces capitalism’s 300-year evolution in a 101-second video, arguing its rise was neither inevitable nor intentional.
Databricks outlines a four-layer mobile security framework to protect corporate data on personal devices without compromising user privacy or device control.
Comedian and filmmaker W. Kamau Bell discussed AI’s influence on creativity and communication during a UC Berkeley symposium, warning against unchecked automation and corporate control of technology.
Google Cloud introduces native BM25 ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL 17+, enabling hybrid search without separate full-text backends.
Google’s AI and Infrastructure team has integrated AI-driven vulnerability scanning into its software development workflow to detect and fix security flaws in real time across hundreds of millions of lines of code.
ASUS and partners at AI Tech 2026 Seoul outlined how evolving AI workloads demand integrated infrastructure beyond raw compute, emphasizing power, cooling, connectivity, and automation as interconnected priorities.
OpenAI released the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint to guide safer AI use for young people, outlining six pillars including safeguards and parental controls.
ASUS unveiled the Ascent QN10, the first AI mini PC with an 80 TOPS NPU, powered by Snapdragon X2 Elite, targeting creators and enterprises with compact yet powerful on-device AI processing.
Zapier evaluates eight AI sales assistant tools for 2026, focusing on standalone AI features, sales process support, and integration capabilities to streamline outreach and automation.
A new report evaluates six conversational AI platforms for customer service, focusing on their ability to handle unscripted queries and resolve tickets without human escalation.
Zapier evaluates seven HR software options for small businesses, emphasizing ease of use, payroll, benefits, and integrations to streamline administrative tasks.
A Zapier editor selects nine marketing automation platforms for 2026 based on tested capabilities, integrations, pricing, and ease of use to streamline multi-channel campaigns.
Snowflake partners with Schwarz Digits’ STACKIT to offer EU data sovereignty via German-hosted cloud integration for regulated industries.
Google Labs unveils CC, an AI agent designed to assist families with scheduling, task tracking, and household coordination by integrating shared information from multiple accounts.
Databricks outlines five essential criteria for selecting databases to support AI agents in production, addressing memory, scaling, retrieval, consistency, and unified access.
Databricks introduces Omnigent to unify fragmented agent workflows, replacing three separate tool rebuilds with a single definition while integrating Nimble’s specialized web search to improve accuracy and reduce costs.
Pine59 migrated to Google Cloud’s Managed Airflow (Gen 3) with Airflow 3 to optimize data pipelines handling millions of daily data points, improving speed, reliability, and developer workflows.
A solo-founder startup reduced query latency 47-fold and automated operations by consolidating global tender data on AlloyDB with MCP, eliminating separate databases and dedicated staff.
Google Data Cloud expands AI inference, batch job resilience, and streaming APIs while introducing synthetic data tools and managed Iceberg tables.
Capital-markets firms are modernizing trade workflows by integrating AI with governed data across research, trading, risk, operations, and compliance to move beyond pilot projects and improve real-time decision-making.
NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW adds four new titles this week, including the free-to-play creature-catching game Aniimo, a path-tracing update for 007 First Light, and two additional cloud-ready releases.
A new roundup identifies top employee onboarding software for 2026, focusing on ease of use, automation, personalization, and culture-building features to improve new hire transitions.
GitHub rewrote its Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript to over 800,000 lines of Rust, improving performance and enabling broader embedding across products while reducing overhead.
OpenAI introduced a framework to systematically report model misalignment, publishing six recent cases of unexpected model behavior to improve transparency and collective safety research.
Orange transformed FinOps from a reporting task into a shared responsibility by combining community engagement with AI agents, enabling broader adoption and faster ROI across engineering teams.
OpenAI and AARP’s OATS launch free workshops to teach older adults practical AI skills, including scam detection and trip planning, with in-person sessions nationwide.
Google introduces AI-powered tools to help retailers boost holiday sales through improved product discovery, YouTube ad engagement, and streamlined checkout processes.
OpenAI introduces AI-powered advertising tools including Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT, simplified ad creation, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify to streamline campaign management.
Mistral AI and Mozilla integrate open-source AI into Firefox Smart Window, prioritizing privacy and local language support for users in France, North America, and later Europe.
OpenAI introduces analytics in the ChatGPT Admin Console to help business leaders measure AI’s real impact on workflows, costs, and outcomes across teams using ChatGPT Work and Codex.