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Omar Hamdi says AI will test whether PR firms can really scale

City A.M. reported on 6 October that the share of UK firms spending on public relations and management consultants fell to 4.2% in September, even as overall business spe

Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes 15-second AI videos for less

Google’s first Wyoming data centre will run on gas with carbon capture

SoundCloud lets ElevenMusic users publish AI-made songs directly

SoundCloud is opening a direct publishing route for music made with the ElevenMusic app, the AI music generation platform from Ele

Zipline raises $1.5bn at $21.5bn valuation as Walmart adds 300 drone sites

Zipline has raised $1.5bn at a $21.5bn valuation, the drone delivery company announced on Thursday. Paradigm, WCM Investment Manag

Insurer Guardian hands 1 million dental calls a year to Sierra’s AI agents

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Cyber found 81 new Firefox flaws and is rated ‘Critical’

Ex-Apple and Uber self-driving veteran’s Humble Robotics raises $51M

Shield AI buys radar maker Echodyne for $5.3B at a $28.8B valuation

Visa tested 22 AI models as shoppers, and they failed 42.8% of the time

Sony’s $60 MDR-3R headphones bring back the original Walkman look

Amazon drops Grubhub and puts Uber Eats inside its own app

Anthropic open-sources FlashProve to prove which AI model wrote an answer

OpenAI hires Uber president Jill Hazelbaker to lead its communications

Isomorphic Labs in talks to raise $5bn at a $50bn valuation, Bloomberg reports

Claude Code’s product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic to join OpenAI

Revolut completes its $115bn share sale as it cuts AI coding bills by 90%

Claude’s share of UK AI subscription spending quadruples in seven months

Numica raises $21M to buy accounting firms from retiring US owners

US voters rejected AI data centres in 40 of 41 ballot measures

Roberta Metsola warns MEPs that AI cannot replace debate in EU lawmaking

Memrise founders raise $3.3M for Mindmax, an AI tutor for exams

Microsoft reportedly rejects option to expand Nscale’s Texas AI deal