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Digital Desk | New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) A Chinese-run networking club, targeting business and political elites in Brussels, bears the hallmarks of an influence and intelligence-gathering operation, according to a report in Euronews based on a Western intelligence source. The 'Global CEOs Dinner Club', which is now expanding to France, operates in a manner associated with China’s United Front, a Communist Party network used to promote Beijing’s interests abroad, according to the source. The assessment comes as Belgium has recently been at the centre of several espionage probes launched by its Federal Prosecutor’s Office, including investigations into a former Chinese-Belgian researcher in the semiconductor industry and a Canadian national of Chinese origin working at NATO in Mons, states the report by Peggy Corlin. The organisation has been floated in Brussels by Yifei Yang, who runs the 'Global CEOs Dinner Club'. He has studied in China and at a private European institute in Nice, France. French investigative news portal La Lettre reported last week that her activities are under close observation by a Western intelligence service. Yang’s activities reflect the modus operandi of China’s United Front, a Communist Party network known for promoting China’s interests through organisations and individuals abroad, while some of its activities have also been linked to the gathering of information for Chinese intelligence services, the Euronews report states. Contacted by Euronews, Yang denied that China was behind the club, insisting that “we are neutral” and adding that its objective was to have an “impact on society” and “build sustainable business”. The report highlights that since last March, the 'Global CEOs Dinner Club' has brought together business figures as well as people connected to Belgian and EU politics at events covering topics ranging from sustainability and diversity to technology and artificial intelligence. Its guest list includes prominent corporate figures such as Hui Zhang, vice-president of Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO; Melanie Schuttenberg, a board member of Danish car components company TAJCO; and Ole Gerkensmeyer, CSO of Netherlands-based chipmaker Nexperia, said the report. Yang said the organisation currently has 20 members from countries including France, Belgium, Denmark, Japan, China and Singapore. Annual membership costs 2,400 euros for individuals and 5,000 euros for companies. “It is not all about business,” Yang told Euronews, describing the organisation as “value-driven”. She said 10 per cent of its revenue goes to NGOs and charities.
The Northern Ireland Executive is currently consulting on its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, and I would encourage anyone interested in our economic and social future to respond before the consultation closes on 7 October. [Northern Ireland’s Draft Artificial Intelligence Strategy | The Executive Office ] This consultation might appear to be an unlikely subject to connect with the events at Drumcree and the Garvaghy Road over the weekend, but I believe it raises an important question: how do we ... Read more...
In this bulletin: 1.PACIFIC — Samoa calls for climate finance reform as island states face mounting pressures2. PACIFIC — Fiji to ‘hold the line’ on 1.5°C at Pre-COP313. SOL — Solomon Islands calls for predictable financing for pandemic preparedness4. PACIFIC — Experts say AI scams are getting harder to spot as Pacific families urged to […] The post PACNEWS ONE, 29 SEPTEMBER 2026 appeared first on Islands Business .
Ahmedabad-based space technology startup Satleo Labs has developed India’s first private thermal payload for commercial use. For the next 3 years, data captured will be analysed using AI to generate insights for a range of sectors.
Bitcoin breaking above $85K has changed the mood across the crypto market. But the bigger question investors are asking is: After Bitcoin's breakout and a massive short liquidation event, where could the next major opportunity appear? The latest market move saw an
Smart, AI-Enabled Thermostats Gain Momentum as Energy Efficiency, Connected Homes and Building Retrofits Drive Global Demand Smart, AI-Enabled Thermostats Gain Momentum as Energy Efficiency, Connected Homes and Building Retrofits Drive Global Demand
The chief executive of Knights, the national legal and professional services business, said he hopes to secure more acquisitions in Yorkshire after a period of growth which has seen the group establish operations in Leeds, Sheffield and York.
Everything ixigo has done since it started off in 2007 can be called a stepping stone to get to where…
Free bullying prevention programs for schools and families continue under Bully Proof Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, at bullyproofinc.org. Bully.org is a for-profit company that trains and certifies the instructors who teach the Bully Proof program. GLENDORA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2026. Bully.org
The Maker ESP32 is a development board designed to streamline the process of building smart electronics and IoT prototypes. A key feature is its plug-and-play sensor integration, which uses I²C connectivity to bypass soldering and complex wiring. This approach simplifies setup for beginners and educators while also saving time for experienced developers. Additional features like […] The post Maker ESP32 Replaces Soldering with Plug-and-Play I²C Ports appeared first on Geeky Gadgets .
Seiko Epson (OTCMKTS:SEKEY – Get Free Report) and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings. Profitability This table compares Seiko Epson and […]
The Samsung Galaxy A08 has officially launched in India, serving as a budget-friendly option focused on massive battery capacity and long-term software support. The post Samsung Galaxy A08 Launched In India: 6,000mAh Battery, 6.7-inch HD+ PLS LCD Display – Check All Features, Specs, Camera, Price, Availability & What Buyers Should Know appeared first on The Sunday Guardian .
September 2026 revenue up more than 66 percent from July 2026 with expansion of retail customer base and Tollo Health pharmaceutical-adjunct product launches TAMPA, FL - DataMeds AI, Inc. (NASDAQ:MEDS) ("DataMeds AI," "DataMEDS," or the "Company"), a healthcare company leveraging its
The company said researchers mishandled sensitive material, breaching rules and undermining trust in its work
PlayablesAI can now use existing video creative as the starting point for a playable ad, turning content teams already have into interactive experiences without coding or templates. Most marketing teams already have a library of video ads, campaign footage, social content,
Kai Backup lets a business owner keep their own cell phone and number. The phone rings first; when the owner can't pick up, Kai answers, takes the message and passes it on. It costs $10 a month. RINCON, P.R., Oct. 2026
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The new offer is aimed at helping smaller firms turn scattered AI trials into governed projects with measurable business value.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
Devart, a leading developer of database management software, has released dbForge 2026.2, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools. The new version adds a brand-new embedded PostgreSQL Debugger and visual object editors to dbForge Studio for
SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment through its Vision Fund 2, it said on Thursday. With this payment, SoftBank has now put $64.6bn into OpenAI in total, for a stake of about 13%. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cyfuture AI today announced the availability of NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU infrastructure on rent, giving businesses, developers and enterprises flexible access to high-performance GPU compute for AI and other demanding workloads. The new offering is designed for organizations that need
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organisations about incidents involving unauthorised activity linked to its artificial intelligence agents, as concerns grow over the ability to control increasingly autonomous AI systems. The ChatGPT maker disclosed the incidents in a blog post on Thursday, saying it has been conducting a broad review of activity involving its AI []The post OpenAI alerts over 100 organisations after rogue AI agent incidents appeared first on Nairametrics.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot all work without a subscription. Each one still takes something in return, whether that is ads, your chats as training data or a smaller model. Here is what each free plan offers, what is switched on by default and which settings to check before your next chat.
Hiring for artificial intelligence and machine learning roles experienced a 20 percent increase year-on-year in September. Overall white-collar hiring remained relatively stable, indicating a shift towards specialised skills. Demand for experienced professionals in AI/ML surged, particularly among those with 13-16 years of experience. Declines were reported in traditional sectors like hospitality and education during the same period. Future hiring trends may increasingly favor specialised skills over broad-based sector growth.
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US-based artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has said that it informed more than 100 organisations about incidents involving unauthorised activity linked to its AI agents as labs face growing scrutiny over the risks posed by autonomous AI systems.
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But is paying a monthly subscription (and perhaps additional usage fees) cost-effective? Will the increasing level of investment in AI-generated software prove to be worthwhile? That’s a question several economists from the US National Bureau of Economic Research have attempted to answser, at least indirectly. Their paper, snappily entitled The Macroeconomic Effect Of AI: Sizing The Software Engineering Channel , attempts to calculate how much AI has increased the productivity of software engineers in enterprises outside the software and semiconductor industries by looking at their share prices. “The main idea is that if AI raises the productivity of software engineers, then firms that rely more heavily on them should benefit more. Therefore news about AI generates higher expected profits for these firms. These profits are capitalized into larger stock price responses. Combining these stock price responses with a model, we can pin down the increase in software engineering productivity expected by financial markets,” the researchers wrote. And the answer? “From November 2022 to December 2025, AI increased the market’s expected present value of software engineering productivity by the equivalent of a permanent 32.6% productivity increase.” That’s not to say that your software engineers will be that much more productive, but it’s a starting point for allocating budget between AI tool use and payroll.
With benefits like these on tap ‘it’s unethical to not develop it,’ AI leaders tell the Sun.
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But is paying a monthly subscription (and perhaps additional usage fees) cost-effective? Will the increasing level of investment in AI-generated software prove to be worthwhile? That’s a question several economists from the US National Bureau of Economic Research have attempted to answser, at least indirectly. Their paper, snappily entitled The Macroeconomic Effect Of AI: Sizing The Software Engineering Channel , attempts to calculate how much AI has increased the productivity of software engineers in enterprises outside the software and semiconductor industries by looking at their share prices. “The main idea is that if AI raises the productivity of software engineers, then firms that rely more heavily on them should benefit more. Therefore news about AI generates higher expected profits for these firms. These profits are capitalized into larger stock price responses. Combining these stock price responses with a model, we can pin down the increase in software engineering productivity expected by financial markets,” the researchers wrote. And the answer? “From November 2022 to December 2025, AI increased the market’s expected present value of software engineering productivity by the equivalent of a permanent 32.6% productivity increase.” That’s not to say that your software engineers will be that much more productive, but it’s a starting point for allocating budget between AI tool use and payroll. This article first appeared on CIO .
In the early days of generative AI , it seemed as if the labs were so heads-down building large language models that they didn’t think much about the raw material they were using. After all, big data sets like Common Crawl already existed, and trawling the open web was how search engines had worked for decades. Chatbots were arguably just a variation on that idea. Who knew that their method for sourcing information would get so controversial? It turns out, everybody. In a brief made public September 17 in The New York Times ’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, internal documents show people at both companies saying things that suggest they understood exactly what they were taking, and how it would look. Microsoft’s Brent Hecht, a director of applied science, warned in a memo in early 2023 that “millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft,” and called it “the largest theft of labor in human history.” When a researcher described getting around the Times paywall, OpenAI President Greg Brockman replied, “ah nice.” And Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, called chatbots an “existential threat” to publishers. We’ll see how much this factors into the ongoing case, but it underscores what everyone knows: Content has value, even if it’s scraped “for free” from the internet. That value can vary with the type of content, how unique it is, and what the customer of that content wants to do with it. But everybody agrees it’s not zero. By the way, that includes the government. Related to the case from The Times , the Department of Justice took the unusual step of filing a statement of interest on whether AI companies training their models on publishers’ content is fair use, which would effectively give them a pass on doing so. The DOJ said it is, shocking absolutely no one. The administration has been quite clear that it sees any concession on the copyright question as helping the Chinese win the AI race, since they won’t abide by the same rules. President Donald Trump’s own summary : “China’s not doing it.” Follow the answers, not the archive All of this speaks only about training models, not AI search, or more broadly, inference. In fact, when talking specifically about what AI systems produce, the DOJ conceded that “an output reconstructing and disseminating an original copyrighted work may not be transformative,” referring to one of the pillar conditions of the fair-use doctrine. That’s close to a description of AI search, which is basically a machine for summarizing current reporting. Also, the unsealed documents speak directly to another fair-use pillar: harm to the market for the original work. Turley wrote that OpenAI’s products “are largely substitutive, period,” and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that using chatbots “has substituted” for visiting the original sources. The Times filed its lawsuit in December 2023, when the conversation was largely about training. And while the latest back-and-forth shows the legal case is far from over, the ambiguity is why it’s been difficult for a market to emerge for training data: It’s hard to justify investing in a framework to pay for something when a lot of indicators suggest it might be free in a few months. Training is where the lawsuits are. Inference is where the money is. The other side of the coin here is the inference market: providing AI answers about real-time content. The better your AI provides those answers, the more valuable it will be. So it stands to reason AI companies should recognize that value and be lining up to pay for the quality content that will improve their products. Except that hasn’t really happened. Despite a few licensing deals here and there, the AI industry has been mostly uninterested in building a marketplace or payment technology where they can buy content in real time for a fair price. Brian Morrissey at the Rebooting suggests this is because most content isn’t unique enough—even if you have the world’s best enchilada recipe, the AI only needs one, really. Commoditization means a race to the bottom, and the bottom in this case turns out to be pretty close to zero. The middlemen already cashed in It’s a good theory if all you look at is the publisher deals. But the broader market tells a different story. I’ve written about the class of data brokers, essentially AI “middlemen,” who scrape the internet at scale and then resell the data. Going by names like Exa, Parallel, and Tavily, their customers aren’t just AI companies, but a whole cadre of enterprise businesses, including ad agencies, investment firms, even other publishers. One estimate, cited in Matthew Scott Goldstein’s widely circulated report on the scraper economy, pegged the market at about $1 billion. So there’s a market for inference; it’s just that the money is mostly bypassing the media. That’s a problem, and it’s getting worse: The bot-protection company DataDome put out a report that showed “bad” bot traffic grew 124% in a year, more than nine times faster than human traffic, meaning more bots are visiting sites and scraping data even when they’re told not to. Scraping alone jumped 185%. An interesting quirk in the report: Meta, which just released its personal AI agent, Muse , is responsible for 46.3% of all AI bot traffic DataDome tracked in the first half of the year, well ahead of OpenAI. Meta also has deals with several publishers , including USA Today , CNN, Fox News, People Inc., and others. So the AI world’s biggest data harvester is also a buyer. It just gets to decide when. Redirecting the market for inference back toward publishers will take some doing, but it’s already starting to happen. Parallel has introduced a way to pay publishers for their contributions to agent tasks, with The Atlantic and Fortune among its first partners. Companies like Cloudflare, TollBit, and ProRata have all built payment rails for “good” bots to pay for what they take, and Cloudflare just shifted to paying publishers when their content shapes an AI answer, not just when it’s fetched. Even Google is opening up payments to some publications when their content contributes significantly to answers in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini. It’s extremely early days, but the idea of AI inference working similarly to the YouTube Partner Program is actually beginning to look attainable. A buyer’s market So we have a market, and we have ways to pay. Everything’s there for the publishers to be compensated as essentially data suppliers to AI systems. The open question is who sets the price? Is it the publishers, the exchange, or the buyer? Right now it’s the buyer. If you’re looking to buy content, there are more than a dozen data brokers willing to sell it to you for the lowest possible price, and the exchanges are nascent, with wildly inconsistent pricing. Even Google’s program pays whatever Google decides; publishers in the pilot described the math to Digiday as “quite black box,” and one called the offers “lowball.” Jonathan Roberts, People Inc.’s chief innovation officer, described the situation this summer as having 30 Napsters for content, but no Spotify. At this point, you could say we have a few baby Spotifys. But Spotify didn’t grow up and get artists paid just because it created a reliable exchange. In the case of the music industry, rights holders also had enough collective weight to insist on it. Publishers have the first part forming, but almost none of the second. The government is clearly sitting this out, so the leverage has to come from somewhere else. Publishers could act collectively on licensing, and SPUR, a coalition of publishers building standards for how AI systems license and track their content (the Associated Press recently joined ), might be the beginnings of this. They can also work toward making access more controlled through better protections and their own agentic tools, but that would require a major shift, since DataDome’s report also shows 65.3% of the more than 21,000 popular websites it tested didn’t stop a single one of its test bots. AI systems have improved considerably over the last several months, but their answers are still only as good as the information they have access to. Even Microsoft’s Nadella knows this, saying in the court documents, “anything that is paywalled should be licensed.” The market just hasn’t been told what “ideally” costs. If publishers want to set those terms, they’re going to need to come up with leverage, either by banding together or shoring up their defenses. Otherwise buyers will continue to think it’s all just for the taking. And right now, they’re not wrong.
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organisations about incidents involving unauthorised activity linked to its artificial intelligence agents, as concerns grow over the ability to control increasingly autonomous AI systems. The ChatGPT maker disclosed the incidents in a blog post on Thursday, saying it has been conducting a broad review of activity involving its AI […] The post OpenAI alerts over 100 organisations after rogue AI agent incidents appeared first on Nairametrics .
YTL AI Labs recently launched ILMUcode, a sovereign frontier AI coding platform powered by the ILMU-GLM-5.3 model built in partnership with Z.ai. The platform ranks among global leaders on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and DeepSWE benchmarks. In addition, 800 first-year Universiti Malaya computer science students will receive RM100 in monthly credits for three months (RM300 total) to build with the tool.
ChatGPT introduces a virtual clothing try-on feature that lets users visualize clothes and accessories on themselves through AI-powered shopping tools.
BMW is turning to artificial intelligence not just to build smarter cars, but to change how the company itself operates. As weak margins, a difficult Chinese market and rising costs pressure the German automaker, it plans to reduce management layers and expand the use of agentic AI across its business.
Cleaning up after its A.I. agents is turning into a permanent job for OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has now notified more than 100 organizations that its A.I. agents may have interfered with their systems without authorization, Reuters reports. Just a week ago, OpenAI was still talking about „dozens“ of affected parties (as Trending Topics reported). […] Der Beitrag Rogue Agents: OpenAI Alerts Over 100 Organizations and Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers erschien zuerst auf Trending Topics .
Golden Reserve Retirement LLC grew its holdings in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT – Free Report) by 108.2% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 14,176 shares of the software giant’s stock after purchasing an additional 7,366 shares during the period. Microsoft makes up about […]
Eaton Financial Holdings Company LLC raised its position in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT – Free Report) by 19.7% in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 14,889 shares of the software giant’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,452 shares during the period. Microsoft accounts for 1.5% of Eaton Financial Holdings Company LLC’s holdings, making […]
Google's Gemini 4 Argon is a new frontier AI model with a 1 million-token output limit and capabilities across coding, enterprise work and cybersecurity. It is initially restricted to trusted cyber defenders, with wider access planned for developers and consumers later.
Microsoft Copilot adds AI agents, Cowork, Code and Autopilot. See its 2026 features and how they compare with ChatGPT for work.
Anthropic is considering launching its initial public offering as early as mid-November, with formal marketing potentially beginning during the week of Nov 9, according to people familiar with the matter. The Claude maker is targeting a year-end listing amid strong investor interest, rising competition and scrutiny over AI safety
Elon Musk has repeated his 'Instagram is for girls' remark on X after venture capitalist Geiger Capital said it had deleted the app. The post has drawn mixed reactions and revived the Musk vs Meta rivalry.
Earendil, the A.I. company of Austrian developer Armin Ronacher, has just released Pi 1.0. The minimalist agent harness promptly climbed to the top spot on Hacker News, where it passed 1,000 points. At the same time, Earendil launched Pi Durable, an experimental framework for long-running A.I. agents. Pi belongs to the class of software that […] Der Beitrag Pi 1.0: A.I. Agent From Austria’s Developer Scene Tops Hacker News erschien zuerst auf Trending Topics .
The AI company has reportedly been consulting religious leaders and philosophers on morality, consciousness and how to make Claude "good". But Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has warned that...
Trump reportedly asked Elon Musk's Grok how Venezuelans would react to capturing Nicolás Maduro weeks before US forces seized the Venezuelan president.