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Pearson’s Workera deal targets a big workplace problem: No time to AI upskill
Pearson has agreed to acquire Workera to help businesses assess employees’ AI skills and target training where it’s needed most.
ZDNet3 min readHershey CEO Kirk Tanner on GLP-1s, AI, and keeping an iconic brand relevant
The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. So he explains exactly what he’s doing to make sure that never happens.
Fast Company — Technology7 min readRogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.
Fast Company — Technology4 min readOpenAI reveals a slew of launches at its annual conference after shelving a new model over safety concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a “remarkably capable, always-on” artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday, a day after the company halted the rollout of a more advanced model over safety concerns.At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman made a slew of product…
Fast Company — Technology2 min readAnthropic, Google, and Meta CEOs pledge to ‘self police’ AI development, says Trump
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting at the White House aimed at addressing Americans’ fears about the technology.“I think I’m…
Fast Company — Technology5 min readThis is what women leaders can teach us about using AI well
There’s a gender gap in generative AI use. According to research published by Harvard Business School, women adopt artificial intelligence at lower rates than men. Many have interpreted that statistic as hesitation. But what if adoption rates are the wrong measure?
Fast Company AI5 min readGenerative AI is over, in case that wasn’t clear
Man, I’ve been waiting to write this one for a while. Generative AI is over. Wait, what? No, not really. I like to get histrionic when I spit out these little proclamations that will be more concrete anywhere from three to nine months from now.
Fast Company — Technology5 min readTrump’s AI Force could make AI’s risks worse. Here’s what to do instead
Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.
Fast Company — Technology5 min readTrump’s new AI chatbot is surprisingly good. But it doesn’t fix government
If there are two things Donald Trump loves more than anything in life, it’s participating in elaborate signing ceremonies and artificial intelligence—sorry, superintelligence. And on September 29, the U.S.
Fast Company AI5 min readHealthcare built for you: AI and the personalization of medicine
To celebrate AI right now almost feels dangerous, because of the widespread and increasingly intense backlash against it. I myself have written about the dangers of AI, not least in these pages, so I understand the anti-AI sentiment.
Fast Company — Technology9 min readGoogle unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday.
The Next Web AI2 min readTokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case
A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported.
The Next Web AI2 min readGoogle is paying 100 publishers for AI answers, The Information reports
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday.
The Next Web AI2 min read300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday.
The Next Web AI4 min readSpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The Next Web AI1 min readReddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed reader.
The Next Web AI2 min readMeta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta’s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday.
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