Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of a technique that manipulates the technology to produce biased advice. The software giant says its security researchers have detected a surge in attacks designed to poison the "memory" of AI models with manipulative data, a technique it calls "AI Recommendation Poisoning." It's similar to SEO Poisoning, a technique used by miscreants to make malicious websites rank higher in search results, but focused on AI models rather than search engines.

In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off in a dismal job market are now being hired to train AI systems meant to replace them altogether. If a great AI replacement ever comes to pass, the scale of potential displacement is massive. MIT researchers recently calculated that today's AI systems could already automate tasks performed by more than 20 million American workers, or about 11.7 percent of the entire US labor force.

The job of agentic babysitter goes to a new AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk's Observability Cloud. We're told it visualizes agent workflows and can track the performance, cost, quality, and behavior of LLM and agentic applications. Splunkers can take it for a spin two weeks from now. Cisco will integrate the new Splunk tool with AI Defense, the suite it announced last year, which makes sure LLMs don't misbehave or create risks.

Sir Demis Hassabis, the recently minted Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, believes humanity is standing on the precipice of a "new golden era of discovery." But reaching this utopia will require navigating a turbulent transition period-a decade-long sprint that Hassabis describes as a necessary disruption for the $3.9 trillion tech giant he helps lead. Speaking to Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell on the Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Hassabis offered a vision of the future defined by "radical abundance." It is a world where artificial intelligence has successfully bottled the scientific method to solve the planet's most intractable problems.

You may recall LiquidStack was one of the early players in two-phase immersion cooling, and first dunked servers into tanks of dielectric liquids to cool down crypto mining operations. Microsoft was among the first to trial LiquidStack's tech all the way back in 2021. Since then, the company has expanded its portfolio to include both single-phase and dual-phase immersion tanks, plus direct-to-chip cooling technologies, including a rather beefy 10MW modular coolant distribution unit (CDU).

Imagine uploading a YouTube video today and having 100 perfectly clipped, captioned, and platform-optimized shorts ready to post by tomorrow. Below, RoboNuggets breaks down how Antigravity, a innovative AI-powered platform, is transforming content creation by automating this entire process. From identifying the most engaging moments to formatting clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, Antigravity is reshaping how creators and businesses repurpose their content.

New data is reinforcing a structural shift in how AI systems access publisher content: AI models are increasingly scraping publisher content, regardless of bot-blocking measures or content licensing deals meant to control usage, improve attribution or drive referral traffic. New research from analytics firms and bot-tracking companies shows AI tools are increasingly crawling publisher sites as inputs for AI-generated summaries and training, while sending back only limited referral traffic.

Back in the day, a simple fact rang true: understanding required construction. If you wanted clarity, you had to build it from the inside out. You struggled with ambiguity and lived with uncertainty longer than was comfortable. But after all, you were building something. Importantly, this "cognitive building" didn't appear fully formed but emerged brick by brick and thought by thought. That work wasn't a barrier to thought; it was the architecture of thought itself.

Surveys suggest customers want to use AI for shopping and to see AI tools from retailers. In a CI&T survey conducted in 2025, 58% of 1,040 U.S. consumers said retailers should use AI to improve the shopping experience, and almost 75% said they were already using AI tools at least occasionally in their path to purchase. In a separate survey from Gartner last March, 56% of millennials said they would be willing to let AI handle or assist with some of their shopping tasks.

On her smartphone map, she watched the tiny dot scurrying toward her Fort Lauderdale address in real time. Then her phone buzzed with an alert: "Your food delivery robot is here!" Karla Joan Nelson-Thatcher raced downstairs to the sidewalk outside her Veneto Las Olas apartment and found, waiting near the front steps, what resembled a 3-foot-tall picnic basket on wheels with glowing Pac-Man eyes.

To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store's page to begin shopping. Customers can enter a list or upload an image of one, and Cart Assistant will automatically add the necessary items to their basket. This includes photos of handwritten lists or screenshots of recipes and their ingredients. Users can then customize the basket by swapping items for preferred brands or adding more products from the store.

According to the company, the Bevri POS is designed to complete the 1003 loan application, collect and validate income and asset documentation, run Desktop Underwriter and Loan Product Advisor findings for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and generate underwriting outcomes earlier in the process. The system also aims to reduce repetitive data entry through autonomous task execution. The company also said the platform continuously evaluates next steps in a loan file, resolving gaps and surfacing insights for loan officers.

Cloud computing stocks are trading like they've hit a wall. WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund ( NASDAQ:WCLD) dropped 30.5% over the past year to $28.60, a stark reversal from the sector's pandemic-era dominance. This divergence from the S&P 500 ( NYSEARCA:SPY)'s 14.4% gain reflects investor skepticism about whether emerging cloud software companies can maintain their business models as AI reshapes the technology landscape.