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Talkdesk launches proactive AI agents for retail and banking
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (21+ words) Talkdesk launches proactive AI agents for retail and financial services, automating outbound engagement including cart recovery, loan pre-qualification, and collections....
Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (23+ words) Google has announced Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator powered by Nano Banana 2, with precision-editing controls and Slides/Drive integration....
CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist
1+ week, 2+ day ago (259+ words) Commonwealth Bank of Australia has appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams, a UNSW AI researcher and AAAI Fellow, as its first Chief AI Scientist....
Ar Xiv introduces one-year ban for researchers who submit papers with unchecked AI-generated content
1+ week, 3+ day ago (463+ words) The preprint platform will penalise authors whose papers contain hallucinated references or leftover LLM instructions. A Lancet study found fabricated citations in biomedical papers rose twelvefold since 2023....
How Lodestellar Is Using AI to Improve EPD Quality in Construction
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1131+ words) Lodestellar is helping manufacturers improve Environmental Product Declaration quality through AI-powered reviews, supporting faster compliance and more transparent construction data....
Byte Dance's Anew Labs presents first AI-designed therapy as Tik Tok parent enters drug discovery race
3+ week, 4+ day ago (159+ words) Byte Dance's drug unit showed an AI-designed IL-17 inhibitor at a Boston conference. The molecule targets interactions pharma called undruggable. Only trials will tell....
The next Renaissance: Why creativity is the currency of the AI age
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1409+ words) We stand at one of history's most exhilarating crossroads. Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of work, business, and human potential at breathtaking speed. The very capabilities that make us most human, our creativity, our imagination, our ability to dream…...
South Africa withdraws national AI policy after at least 6 of 67 academic citations found to be AI-generated hallucinations
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (783+ words) South Africa pulled its draft AI policy after News24 found fake citations in real journals. Minister Malatsi called it an "unacceptable lapse." The policy meant to govern AI was undermined by it....
How Denis Brovarnyy is closing the AI Skills gap with real-world training
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (545+ words) When he lost his job, he didn't immediately look for the next one. He sat with a question most people skip: "Is there a better use of what I know?" The answer became AIT Technology School, and a decade-long project…...
Roblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (888+ words) In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3 D model generation, mesh generation, and self-correcting loops that test and refine outputs. The update…...