Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds
Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company’s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, accordin…

NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone

NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls …

Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web
Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web

Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudfla…

AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them
AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them

The tools built to measure how dangerous AI can be have stopped working. Frontier models outpace the benchmarks meant to gauge their hacking skills, Axios reports. That leaves regulators and security teams half-blind to what these systems can really do…

OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business
OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business

OpenAI wants the work that once belonged to consultants. Its deployment arm has agreed to buy Northslope, an applied-AI firm, the company told Axios in an exclusive on Wednesday. It did not disclose terms, and the deal still needs regulatory clearance….

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO
RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Mid…

Y Combinator-backed German startup Finto raises $3.4M, says chose Munich over the Valley

A German startup building AI agents for accounting today said it had deliberately chosen to be based in Munich over the Valley after going through Y Combinator in San Francisco and raising a £3.4m see…

‘Slopfix’ software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

A software house known as ‘Slopfix’ has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work.

China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI
China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI

The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic’s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has told companies to drop Anthropic’s Claude Code. Its M…

Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents
Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents

Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network built for the age of AI coding agents. The pitch is to spread code hosting across regions rather than lea…