AI agents finally start doing some real work
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BNY and Walmart claim their digital workers are more than flashy demos.

For all the noise about AI agents changing everything, most have looked like expensive toys waiting for a job. Now, a few early adopters say the graft is paying off.

SoftBank flogs Nvidia stake to bet big on OpenAI
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Son's AI obsession unnerves investors despite record profits

SoftBank Group shares nosedived 10 per cent after it dumped its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion, choosing to punt the lot on OpenAI instead.

AI takes control of $35 billion Korean data centre
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Project Concord aims to make humans redundant in server farms

A group of investors in South Korea claims it is building the world’s first large-scale data centre designed, constructed and operated entirely by AI.

CoreWeave’s AI gold rush stalls
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Delays bite despite a flood of new deals.

CoreWeave, one of the biggest outfits flogging cloud computing to AI outfits, saw its revenue more than double in the third quarter as it cosied up to some of the biggest beasts in the AI jungle.

Microsoft’s new AI crusade aims to ditch OpenAI leash
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Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence

Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.