AI may boost global trade value by nearly 40%: WTO

techxplore - Artificial intelligence could boost the value of global trade by almost 40% by 2040 thanks to cost reductions and productivity gains, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday.

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Amazon Expands Seller Assistant With Agentic AI to Become Always-On Partner

PYMNTS / pymnts - A year after introducing Project Amelia as a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to answer seller questions, Amazon has upgraded the tool with agentic AI that can reason, plan and take actions with a seller’s approval. The company said in a …

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New ChatGPT Safety Features Coming Soon: Parental Controls And AI Age Prediction

bgr - ChatGPT will soon introduce its parental control features and AI age prediction algorithm to regulate how teens interact with the AI chatbot.

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After selling out in Japan, Casio’s $429 Moflin AI pet launches in US and UK

Wayne Williams / betanews - Moflin, an AI-powered robotic pet priced at $429, has officially launched in the US and UK after selling out in Japan. The palm-sized pet is designed to provide companionship through evolving emotional interaction driven by AI. Unlike real pets, it doesn’…

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Workday to buy AI company Sana for $1.1bn

Laura Varley / siliconrepublic - The acquisition will enable the organisation to extend its AI capabilities.Read more: Workday to buy AI company Sana for $1.1bn

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China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D

tomshardware - Beijing is reportedly telling its biggest tech companies to buy local instead of purchasing Nvidia's latest China-specific AI chips.

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Anthropic draws a line between spies and cops

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Anthropic builds classified AI models for intelligence agencies while blocking FBI and ICE from domestic surveillance use. The contradiction has sparked White House tensions and raises questions about ethical lines in government AI.

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Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

Richard Speed / theregister - Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town Microsoft appears to have trumped Google's UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the country.…

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Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Iain Thomson / theregister - Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes …

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Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Gig economy platform Fiverr is laying off 250 employees as it pivots to being an "AI-first company," CEO Micha Kaufman shared in an essay on X. The move affects around 30 percent of the company's staff, The Register writes, and it's not uncommon among tec…

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Gemini overtakes ChatGPT on App Store, as its Nano Banana AI model drives downloads up 45%

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Though the month is only half over, Gemini's app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August.

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Humanoid robot startup Figure raises $1B+ at $39B valuation

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Figure AI Inc. today announced that it raised a funding round worth more than $1 billion from a group of prominent investors. Parkway Venture Capital led the Series C deal. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Inc., …

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Major studios sue Chinese AI startup MiniMax over alleged generative tech misuse

In a high-stakes legal showdown, Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery have joined forces to file a lawsuit against Chinese AI startup MiniMax. The studios accuse the company of infringing on their intellectual property through unlicensed use of generative AI, marking a bold stand against what they see as rampant misappropriation in the creative tech arena.

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Workday to acquire Sana for $1.1 billion

Cate Lawrence / tech - Workday, the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sana, a Stockholm AI company building the next generation of enterprise k...

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OpenAI's new GPT-5 Codex model takes on Claude Code

Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - OpenAI is rolling out the GPT-5 Codex model to all Codex instances, including Terminal, IDE extension, and Codex Web (codex.chatgpt.com). [...]

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5-Codex AI Coding Model with Dynamic Thinking

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI launches GPT-5-Codex, a new AI model powering its Codex coding assistant with dynamic thinking for complex, agentic software engineering tasks.The post OpenAI Launches GPT-5-Codex AI Coding Model with Dynamic Thinking appeared first on WinBuzzer.

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Nvidia Becomes its Own Customer with $6.3 Billion Deal to Buy Unsold CoreWeave AI Cloud Capacity

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Nvidia has signed a $6.3 billion deal to purchase CoreWeave's unsold AI compute capacity, providing a critical financial backstop for the cloud provider's massive expansion.The post Nvidia Becomes its Own Customer with $6.3 Billion Deal to Buy Unsold Core…

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