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4 October 2026 · 5 stories
American customer-management software giant Salesforce has signed a deal to acquire Listen Labs, a startup whose AI agents talk to millions of people to survey their needs, frustrations, and habits. Listen Labs has already interviewed more than 50 million participants and works...
Apple has just announced that it will tighten the Full Disk Access setting on its Mac computers, which lets an app read all your files, mails, messages and browsing history. The change: you will have to take an explicit action, and Apple names AI agents specifically as the...
Chinese giant Tencent has signed a five-year deal with Oracle to rent around 100,000 high-end AI chips, hosted in data centres in Southeast Asia, for a total of about $7 billion with a 30% upfront payment. It is the largest overseas lease of this kind Tencent has ever signed....
Meta has open-sourced, under the Apache 2.0 licence, the Muse Gadgets project, which lets you connect your Muse personal assistant to objects you build yourself: a small box with a Raspberry Pi or ESP32 board, an e-ink screen, an HDMI stick for your TV. The code is on GitHub,...
InclusionAI, the AI division of Chinese giant Ant Group (behind Alipay), has released Ling-3.1-flash, a model with 560 billion total parameters of which 25 billion are used per question, able to retain 262,000 words of context. The model claims scores of 65.4 on the SWE-Pro...