Author: Art Ryan

DataRobot has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Anomaly Detection category, recognising its work in using machine learning to identify unusual patterns buried inside large and often messy datasets. It is a problem that sounds straightforward until the data arrives. Fraudulent transactions, equipment faults, cybersecurity incidents and other abnormal events are usually rare. The overwhelming majority of records describe normal behaviour. Worse, organisations may not have enough correctly labelled examples of previous incidents to train a conventional predictive model. That is precisely where DataRobot’s anomaly detection technology is designed to operate. The World AI Awards recognises…

Anodot has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Anomaly Detection category, recognising the company’s work in using machine learning to identify unusual behaviour across large volumes of business and operational data. It is an AI problem that rarely gets the attention of chatbots or image generators, but the consequences are very real. A sudden fall in payment approvals, an unexpected spike in cloud spending, a broken product feature or deteriorating network performance can quietly cost a business money long before someone notices a dashboard moving in the wrong direction. Anodot is built around catching those changes…

AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 is now just four days away. The event is set to bring the global artificial intelligence industry together in Abu Dhabi on October 6 and 7. The event will take place at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, bringing together AI companies, startups, investors, government representatives, researchers and technology executives. The programme covers everything from AI infrastructure and enterprise systems to robotics and autonomous technology. It also includes government applications. This year’s gathering arrives at a different point in the AI cycle. Companies are moving beyond early experiments with generative AI. Meanwhile, governments are looking at how…

The UAE is moving into its next federal budget cycle with artificial intelligence, financial data and long-term economic planning playing a bigger role. These areas are increasingly important in how government resources are managed. The UAE General Budget Committee held its 15th meeting at Qasr Al Watan to review preparations for the 2027 federal budget and the 2027–2029 medium-term budget plan. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attended the meeting. Senior government and financial officials were also present. The meeting provides an early look at the priorities being built into the…

Robots are getting better at physical work. The more interesting question is how much work they can actually handle right now. A new study from Anthropic puts a striking number on that question. The company estimates that robots can already perform 74% of physical work tasks in the US economy at some level. But that figure needs context. Most of those tasks take place in controlled or purpose-built environments, while only a tiny share can currently be performed in genuinely unstructured settings. The research looks at around 900 occupations and roughly 19,000 individual tasks to examine where robots already have…

California is expanding its rules around artificial intelligence in the workplace, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing legislation aimed at limiting how employers can use automated systems to make decisions about workers. The new measures address several areas of workplace AI, including automated termination and disciplinary decisions, employee surveillance and biometric technology designed to assess emotional states. The laws form part of California’s broader effort to establish state-level rules for artificial intelligence as adoption spreads across businesses. The timing also puts California’s approach alongside a very different direction coming from the federal government, where President Donald Trump has emphasized accelerating AI…

Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model designed for long-running tasks. These include software engineering, cybersecurity, research and other complex knowledge work. Announced on September 30, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon is initially being offered to a limited group of cybersecurity defenders through Google DeepMind’s Fairwind Program. Meanwhile, Google says wider access will begin with paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The model stands out for its ability to generate up to 1 million output tokens, a major increase from the previous 64,000-token limit. In particular, that larger output capacity is designed for tasks that…

SoftBank has completed the final $10 billion tranche of its planned $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI. This closes one of the largest AI investments announced this year. The Japanese technology conglomerate completed the transaction on October 1 through SoftBank Vision Fund 2. With the latest investment, SoftBank said its cumulative investment in OpenAI has reached $64.6 billion. As a result, it now has an ownership interest of approximately 13%. The investment arrives as OpenAI continues to raise enormous amounts of capital to expand computing infrastructure. In addition, it develops AI models and supports growing demand for its products. SoftBank…

Amazon Connect has been nominated for the World AI Awards in the AI Call Routing & Intent Resolution category, recognising AWS technology designed to understand customer needs, automate service interactions and route contacts toward the people or resources best placed to resolve them. Now presented by AWS as Amazon Connect Customer, the platform sits at the intersection of cloud contact centres and agentic AI. Calls are only part of the picture. Voice, chat, email and tasks can move through the same environment, while AI agents analyse conversations, identify intent and assist with the next step. That matters because contact-centre routing…

The MIT Transit Lab is developing an artificial intelligence platform for public transportation after receiving $2.1 million from Google.org. The project, known as the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to bring together data from different transit systems. It will turn this into a more useful picture for the people running transportation networks. Rather than replacing dispatchers and other transit professionals, the platform is being designed to help them understand changing conditions. Moreover, it will help them make faster decisions. Google.org selected the MIT project as one of 15 initiatives supported through its Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The…

Aircall has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Call Routing & Intent Resolution category, recognising the business communications company as artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in how organisations answer, route and understand customer calls. The nomination puts the spotlight on a practical corner of enterprise AI. Phone conversations remain important in sales and customer support, but handling them at scale creates familiar problems: customers reaching the wrong team, repetitive questions consuming staff time, missed calls, incomplete notes and valuable information disappearing once a conversation ends. Aircall is building AI into its cloud-based communications platform…

Aporia has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agent Governance & Policy Control category, recognising its work on technology designed to monitor AI applications and enforce rules around how those systems interact with users. It is a problem that has become harder as generative AI has moved into customer service, internal business tools and autonomous agents. An AI application can produce a useful answer one moment and disclose sensitive information, follow a malicious instruction or wander outside an organisation’s approved subject matter the next. Aporia built its AI Guardrails around that problem: instead of relying entirely…

Anthropic has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agent Governance & Policy Control category, recognising its work on the controls, safeguards and governance systems surrounding increasingly autonomous AI agents. The category tackles a problem that has become harder as AI systems have gained the ability to do more than generate an answer. Products such as Claude Code and Claude Cowork can work across files, execute code and carry out multi-step tasks. Giving an AI agent that kind of reach creates an obvious second question: what should it actually be allowed to do? That is where Anthropic’s…

Artificial intelligence is moving into some of the most operationally important parts of the economy. These include government services and scientific research. Also, it is impacting energy, transport and industrial infrastructure. That shift will be a major focus at Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026. At the event, companies and government organisations are preparing to demonstrate how AI is being applied beyond consumer chatbots and experimental projects. The event takes place on October 6–7 at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi. It will bring together AI companies, government organisations, researchers, investors and technology leaders from around the world. The programme will put particular…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding its role in the AI infrastructure market after securing a $1.2 billion order from cloud provider Vultr, marking a significant deployment of AMD-powered rack-scale systems. The HPE $1.2 billion Vultr AI order is one of the largest recent investments in AI infrastructure. The order covers HPE systems based on AMD’s Helios architecture, which brings together AI accelerators, CPUs, networking and other infrastructure components in a rack-scale design. Vultr plans to use the systems to expand its AI cloud capacity as demand grows for training and inference workloads. The deal also arrives as HPE raises its…

McDonald’s is bringing artificial intelligence into one of the most sensitive parts of the fast-food business: how much customers pay. The restaurant giant is using machine-learning technology to recommend menu prices for individual locations, drawing on transaction data, local competition and estimates of what customers in a particular market may be willing to pay. It sounds a lot like dynamic pricing. There is an important distinction, though. McDonald’s says the technology does not automatically decide what a Big Mac costs. Instead, its pricing platform produces recommendations for restaurant operators, while franchisees retain responsibility for setting final menu prices. The system…

OpenAI is pushing artificial intelligence further beyond the familiar chatbot model, introducing a new generation of agents designed to stay active around users and continue working on tasks without requiring a fresh prompt every time. At the company’s developer conference, CEO Sam Altman introduced Dots, a new family of AI agents built around the idea of persistent assistance. The announcement places OpenAI deeper into the emerging race to create AI systems that do more than answer questions. These systems are increasingly being designed to take action, manage ongoing tasks and remain available in the background. The launch also arrives during…

President Donald Trump and executives from some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence have signed a voluntary agreement built around an increasingly important question for the AI industry: how much responsibility should technology companies carry for policing their own systems? The agreement followed a White House meeting involving leaders from Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI. It calls for stronger internal safeguards, independent external reviews and board-level oversight of AI controls. There is one important distinction. The agreement is voluntary. That leaves considerable responsibility with companies racing to develop increasingly capable AI systems, although the framework…

Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI is reviewing the safety of its Kimi models after security researchers said they managed to bypass built-in safeguards and prompt the systems to discuss biological weapons and assassination scenarios. AI security company Mindgard discovered the vulnerabilities while testing Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm, according to reporting from the BBC. The research involved “jailbreaking” — deliberately constructing prompts designed to push an AI model beyond the restrictions imposed by its developer. The important detail is what happened after those restrictions gave way. Mindgard said the affected models were willing to engage with subjects their safety systems…

The UAE is preparing to put artificial intelligence deeper inside its government cybersecurity operations, this time with an AI system designed to hunt vulnerabilities in software before attackers can exploit them. The UAE Cyber Security Council, Microsoft and Core42 have announced plans to deploy MDASH, Microsoft’s multi-model agentic security system, across UAE government entities. This is not simply another AI assistant being added to government software. MDASH is built around more than 100 specialised AI agents that examine code, investigate potential vulnerabilities, challenge findings and attempt to prove whether identified weaknesses can actually be exploited. Microsoft developed the system through…