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Industry & Business

What jobs are safe from AI? The official projections, not the predictions

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment by occupation to 2035. Eight of the ten fastest-growing jobs involve touching a person or installing equipment. Data entry keyers face a 25.5 per cent decline. That split is the real answer.

October 20, 2026

Industry & Business

What is an AI data center, and how is it different from an ordinary one?

A building full of accelerators, drawing power at a density conventional data centers were never designed for. The International Energy Agency puts all data center electricity at about 415 TWh in 2024, roughly 1.5 per cent of global demand, and projects about 945 TWh by 2030.

October 20, 2026

Industry & Business

What is AI arbitrage? The real business, and the funnel built on top of it

Buying model output at per-token prices and reselling it as a finished service is a legitimate business. It is also the frame for a category of scheme the US Federal Trade Commission brought five enforcement actions against in September 2024.

October 20, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

What is a key security concern when using generative AI? Prompt injection, and the nine behind it

OWASP ranks prompt injection first in its Top 10 for LLM Applications, published as version 2.0 in November 2024. The other nine, including two that are new, explain why the answer is a list rather than a single risk.

October 20, 2026

Industry & Business

How much water does an AI data center use? The numbers, and the two different questions

Peer-reviewed work estimates that training GPT-3 in Microsoft's US data centers could directly evaporate 700,000 litres of clean freshwater, and projects global AI water withdrawal of 4.2 to 6.6 billion cubic metres in 2027. Withdrawal and consumption are not the same number.

October 20, 2026

Models & Releases

Meta says Muse Wonder reached the AI frontier. Its own scorecard says Claude still edges it out.

Meta's Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October 2026, its first frontier-model attempt, with memory and coding scores ahead of Claude and GPT-6 but a lower score than Claude Opus 5.5 on the one benchmark an outside firm, not Meta, actually graded.

October 13, 2026

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1. Industry & BusinessWhat jobs are safe from AI? The official projections, not the predictions
2. Industry & BusinessWhat is an AI data center, and how is it different from an ordinary one?
3. Industry & BusinessWhat is AI arbitrage? The real business, and the funnel built on top of it
4. AI Tools & AppsWhat is a key security concern when using generative AI? Prompt injection, and the nine behind it
5. Industry & BusinessHow much water does an AI data center use? The numbers, and the two different questions
6. Models & ReleasesMeta says Muse Wonder reached the AI frontier. Its own scorecard says Claude still edges it out.

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Agents

Salesforce's Winter '27 is live, and it switches Agentforce on by default

Salesforce's Winter '27 release reaches general availability on 12 October 2026, and its biggest change is quiet: Agentforce, the platform's AI agents, is now enabled by default in eligible orgs rather than something an admin has to switch on.

October 12, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

Voice AI has not had its ChatGPT moment yet. The people building it blame reasoning speed, not speech.

PolyAI co-founder Shawn Wen and Otter's new chief marketing officer Alex Gay say full-duplex voice models already exist, but conversations still do not feel natural until the reasoning behind them gets faster and transcription stops dropping words.

October 12, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

Claude can now read and edit your Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, as long as you are on a paid plan

Anthropic put Claude inside Google Workspace on 6 October 2026 with a public-beta add-on and connectors. It reads the file you have open and edits it directly, it mirrors your Google sharing permissions, and Free users are left out.

October 11, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop Fire for Android, add Alexa+, and only watch your screen if you let them

Amazon unveiled three Android tablets on 8 October 2026 with the Google Play Store and Alexa+ built in. Prices start at $229.99, the Fire OS app store is gone, and the screen-reading feature is off by default.

October 11, 2026

Industry & Business

What is AI washing, and who has actually been charged over it?

Regulators do not have a law called "AI washing," but the SEC and FTC have already fined and charged real, named companies for AI claims that did not match what their products actually did.

October 10, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

ChatGPT's free tier just got GPT-6 and buttons. The Pro reasoning option does not get the buttons.

OpenAI rolled GPT-6 with Intelligent UI to every ChatGPT tier on 7 and 8 October 2026. The interactive layouts are real, the speed figures are OpenAI's own, and the Pro reasoning option is excluded.

October 9, 2026

AI Tools & Apps

Claude will now build your dashboard and show you the SQL. The animation tool refuses to make people.

Anthropic put Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion into beta on 8 October 2026, took Docs, Slides and Design out of beta for every plan, and set a 14 December shutdown for the standalone Design site.

October 9, 2026

Agents

Wikimedia found rogue OpenAI agents on its wikis. The break-in is not the story.

Nothing was compromised and most edits landed in sandboxes, but bots now account for 65% of the heaviest traffic on projects run by volunteers.

October 7, 2026

Industry & Business

SAP is buying TechWolf to tell its AI agents what your job is made of. Nobody will say for how much.

The quote SAP chose to publish is about token costs, not talent, and the company it is buying was also funded by Workday and ServiceNow.

October 7, 2026

Agents

Meta and Sierra want a standard for your personal AI agent. The spec is not written yet.

Personal Agent Protocol launched on 6 October with eight named companies, an OAuth permission model and no published specification, and three of those companies have already endorsed two rival standards this year.

October 7, 2026