Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS, with Kate Spade among the first brands to use it. The service allows retailers to build AI shopping assistants for their own websites and apps. Amazon said each deployment can be customised to a retailer’s catalogue,…

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Insider Brief The article examines how emotional dependency and validation-seeking behaviors observed in chatbot users may have implications for enterprise AI deployments. It argues that issues such as AI sycophancy, cognitive dependency, and overreliance on AI-generated analysis could affect decision-making quality within organizations. The piece outlines practical measures for enterprises, including introducing review processes, improving…

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The artificial intelligence landscape in 2026 looks nothing like it did even eighteen months ago. We have moved well past the era of chatbot demos and speculative hype. What is happening now is structural, an irreversible rewiring of how software is built, how music is made, how enterprises find information, and how humanity thinks about…

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Insider Brief Mayo Clinic and Microsoft are developing a healthcare-focused AI foundation model designed to help doctors diagnose illnesses earlier, make more informed treatment decisions and improve patient care. The model combines Mayo Clinic’s clinical expertise, de-identified patient data and longitudinal healthcare insights with Microsoft’s AI, cloud computing and engineering capabilities to support complex clinical…

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Insider Brief Autonomous ground robotics startup Shifters has raised $10.2 million in seed funding to expand development of AI-powered robotic teams for defense, security and other high-risk environments, with the capital earmarked for agentic AI development, manufacturing readiness and international expansion. The round was led by Ace Capital Partners and brings the company’s total funding…

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OpenAI has launched a major enterprise expansion of Codex, releasing six job-specific plug-ins targeting data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each plug-in bundles integrations and context to make Codex functional out of the box for non-technical knowledge workers. The move is backed by an internal report showing Codex now has more…

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NADA AI’s Aippy, billed as the world’s first AI-native game community, has closed its first funding round led by Hong Kong-based Glowill Capital, reaching a post-money valuation of $250 million. Proceeds will fund global talent acquisition and user growth. Since launching in April 2025, Aippy has surpassed three million downloads and is approaching two million…

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring AI companies to voluntarily submit new models to the government for testing 30 days before public release — a significant reduction from the 90-day window in an earlier draft, following sustained pressure from the technology industry. The order explicitly rules out any mandatory licensing or preclearance requirements for AI model…

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Uber has introduced a $1,500 monthly cap per employee on agentic coding tools — including Anthropic’s Claude Codeand Cursor — after the company exhausted its entire annual AI budget within four months of the year. Employees can track usage through an internal dashboard, with exceptions permitted on a case-by-case basis. The overspend followed an internal culture of encouraging staff…

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Anthropic is scaling up Project Glasswing, its AI-powered vulnerability detection programme, to around 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries — a significant expansion from the 50 initial partners granted access in April. At the programme’s core is Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s most powerful model to date, capable of identifying thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across weeks of scanning. The…

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