AI minister shuns ChatGPT for ministerial business

As an enthusiastic proponent of AI, one might expect the UK’s AI minister to be a keen user of ChatGPT or other popular AI chatbots in the course of his ministerial duties- perhaps to make his days mo…

Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI
Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI

A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael T…

Companies bought the AI. Now they need people to use it
Companies bought the AI. Now they need people to use it

Louise Ballard, co-founder and CEO of Atheni AI, has a mission — to ensure that when it comes to AI, nobody gets left behind. “As AI becomes embedded across every profession, we don’t want to create a…

Building trust in AI health intelligence: why privacy, transparency, and human oversight matter
Building trust in AI health intelligence: why privacy, transparency, and human oversight matter

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and clinical decision support to remote monitoring and wellness technologies, organizations are exploring how AI can help process information …

OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself
OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself

Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI’s employees now use Codex, the company’s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, according to a paper the company published on Wednesday titled “The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex.” The paper de…

Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job
Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interact with email, with AI agents increasingly handling t…

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer base and revenue have grown roughly 75 percent since Ja…

Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand
Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand

Unconventional AI, the startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first AI model, an image generation system called Un-0 that runs on a completely new kind of computing architecture. The model produces results comparable…

Epic boss Tim Sweeney blasts Steam for putting AI tags on games — says move is ‘irresponsible of Valve’

The Epic executive said in an interview after unveiling Unreal Engine 6 that AI tools help make developers far more productive. Putting the AI tag on games discourage their use, especially as titles with this label gets fewer reviews and tend to have more negative reviews, as well.