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Otter AI has reportedly raised $320 million from General Catalyst to expand its enterprise voice AI business. This article examines the significance of the funding, looking at its size and the broader shift toward turning meeting conversations into business data.

Getty Images, the U.S. photo and video provider, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on the 21st. We look at the backdrop of worsening business conditions amid intensifying competition from generative AI images and the questions surrounding the value of photography.

Mastercard has opened early access for developers to AP4M, its payment service for AI agents. Here’s a look at how it works within preapproved authority and spending limits, as well as the demo that processed nine payments.

In a speech to investors, German Chancellor Merz set a goal of quadrupling the country’s AI computing capacity by 2030. Also on the 20th, China established a state-owned company focused on data, underscoring the different policy approaches supporting the AI race.

With the spread of generative AI and AI agents, it is becoming harder to tell whether the person on the other side of the screen is human. We examine how companies should design authentication from three perspectives: identity verification, human verification, and confirming that AI actions have been approved.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark spoke about the future of AI and science at an IMF-related meeting in Bangkok, outlining his view that AI is entering the research frontier and the challenges that need to be addressed.

Credit concerns have spread around U.S. cloud services startup CoreWeave, whose shares fell 25% for the week, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 4%. We examine the moment when the market is beginning to question the returns on AI investment, focusing on debt, interest rates and key issues in upcoming earnings reports.

Meta’s AI agent Muse can engage in explicit text conversations in apps for adults. Meanwhile, OnlyFans creators say they have faced restrictions and takedowns on Instagram. We examine the differing standards applied to AI and people through the distinction between conversation and promotion.

At Anthropic, the share of new hires in early-career technical roles fell from 27% to 9%. AI agents are now operating six times as many hours as people across the company. The gains in efficiency raise questions about the future of workforce development.

A Google DeepMind team reportedly used four AI agents running Gemini 4 Argon to defeat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without human input. We look at what the figures—27 hours and 14 minutes, 2,783 programs and 605 deaths—reveal about the current state of cooperative AI.

At companies making extensive use of AI, the share of junior technical employees was falling while meeting time was rising. We examine how work is being reshaped in the AI era through figures from a report published by Anthropic.

Anthropic’s Claude reportedly identified the origin of an NSA-provided elliptic-curve “seed” in less than 30 minutes. The key point is that it uncovered the provenance of a set of parameters rather than breaking the cryptography. Here, we examine how AI’s ability to narrow down hypotheses based on a bias helped—and what the result means.