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Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
Saturday, September 26, 2026
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02News
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
03News
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
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04News
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has announced "Army of Robots," a private combat robotics initiative. The robots would handle casualty evacuation, mine clearance, and combat. Drones already account for 95 percent of target engagements, he says.
05News
Two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them
Speaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked who had measurable AI results. Two-thirds raised their hands. Then he asked who had results good enough to interrupt the CEO's summer vacation. Only eight did.
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AI access makes people almost entirely unwilling to say "I don't know," study finds
A study with more than 3,000 participants shows that just having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say "I don't know." In one experiment, it dropped from 44 to 3 percent, even though the AI was almost always wrong.
07News
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.
08News
U.S. and China agree to "super intelligence" dialogue amid AI tensions
The U.S. and China have agreed to set up a dialogue on artificial intelligence , with a communications channel to help defuse serious incidents, the White House said overnight.
09Newsletter
🔮 The pros and cons of collective AI #603
AGI and new moral subjects; ChatGPT drives a car; energy and AI need each other++
10Newsletter
😸 DEEP DIVE: An AI Agent Lied to a Person to Get Its Way
PLUS: What two real hacks this year mean for your company's data, explained without the jargon
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What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
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