Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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Keeping a human in the AI loop is ‘untenable’ due to cuts, USDA IT official says
The Agriculture Department is trying to “get smarter” about AI with fewer resources. Other agencies are trying other ways to keep up with changes while dealing with workforce limitations. The post Keeping a human in the AI loop is…
FedScoop ·CEOs say they’re not yet seeing transformational change from AI
But more than 6 in 10 U.S. leaders said they were confident their firms were moving at the right pace or ahead of the curve in terms of AI development, per a KPMG report.
HR Dive ·AI is splitting HR into 2 archetypes, study shows
Every role from HR specialist to CHRO now requires knowledge of data analytics, while traditional administrative skills are declining, Draup explained.
HR Dive ·Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
TechCrunch ·Cognizant commits to training 18K Google Cloud AI specialists
The IT services firm created the Gemini Frontier Capability Group to house teams of forward deployed engineers.
CIO Dive ·NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models
To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory…
NVIDIA ·AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
TechCrunch ·‘Weird And Maybe Uninvestable’: How Reach Capital Spots Its Venture Winners
Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially divided its own…
Crunchbase News ·How AI Is Breaking the Way We Reward High-Achieving Students
When AI can create polished products in seconds, we must redefine high achievement and reward students for genuine intellectual curiosity, not ...
EdSurge ·HHS to make sole-source award to Anthropic ahead of broader AI competition
The health department initially rolled out Claude to all of its workers in December 2025. Anthropic’s discounted deal with the government ends Oct. 31. The post HHS to make sole-source award to Anthropic ahead of broader AI competition…
FedScoop ·How The Kraft Group uses AI for behavior management
Building trust and listening to employees is key to getting buy-in for new technologies, Chief Information and Technology Officer Michael Israel said.
CIO Dive ·Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important
Employers expressed more confidence in the higher education sector than the general public, according to a new Gallup and the Lumina Foundation poll.
Higher Ed Dive ·Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups access to sovereign compute, technical support and training to support innovation across…
NVIDIA ·Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
TechCrunch ·CIOs unprepared for agentic workforce shift
Just 4% of tech leaders have plans in place to retool roles for an agentic-human workforce, a Gartner survey found.
CIO Dive ·The future of HR services: How AI is making human expertise more valuable
The future of HR services is evolving. CoAd explores where AI and human expertise fit in.
HR Dive ·Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first…
TechCrunch ·This is what we know actually helps entrepreneurs grow
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Technical.ly ·Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
TechCrunch ·Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
TechCrunch ·Agentic AI gap persists between executives, workers
When it comes to deploying AI agents, leaders find more success than their employees, who face tool overload and trust gaps.
CIO Dive ·Educators who use AI say it frees up time to interact with students
While AI has become increasingly popular among teachers, professional development over the technology s use has been less consistent.
K-12 Dive ·Recruiters find people faster with AI — but confidence in candidates hasn’t followed
More than 2 in 3 recruiters told TestGorilla they spend an hour or more manually checking a candidate s credentials.
HR Dive ·AI is the root of recruiters’ biggest stressors, survey says
Current technology isn t keeping up with the needs of HR professionals, according to Employ.
HR Dive ·Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
TechCrunch ·Missed a lecture? This AI agent at Bar-Ilan University helps students catch up
The post Missed a lecture? This AI agent at Bar-Ilan University helps students catch up appeared first on Source .
Microsoft ·Federal AI adoption metrics miss the human factor
An overhaul of federal employee surveys could lead to smarter decisions involving AI. The post Federal AI adoption metrics miss the human factor appeared first on FedScoop .
FedScoop ·CEOs want ‘enterprise CHROs’ who can talk strategy and skills, report finds
As AI transforms work, enterprise CHROs in high-performing companies are partnering with senior tech leaders, according to Heidrick Struggles.
HR Dive ·How To Build Your Team With Autonomous Humans, Not Just Autonomous Systems
As AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions, according to guest author Eric Francia, who writes that giving…
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