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Fujitsu confirms mainframe business will end in 2035, to be replaced by AI supercomputers or quantum computers. The company will focus on AI-driven management and shift to a value-based earnings structure. Fujitsu is also in talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can contribute to global stability.

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, testified in the ongoing court battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the future of OpenAI. Brockman's testimony was marked by pedantic corrections and a lack of clear answers, leading to skepticism about his trustworthiness. The trial has revealed journal entries and emails that suggest Brockman's greed and opportunism, as well as his close relationship with Altman.

DoorDash migrated its iOS XCTest-based test suite to Swift Testing using Copilot, resulting in 60% faster test execution and 40% faster overall builds. The migration was done with strong reliability safeguards, including a 'migration rule' to automate mechanical conversions and a ten-run rule to eliminate flakiness.

Elon Musk's only AI expert witness, Stuart Russell, testified about the dangers of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the need for regulation to prevent an arms race. Russell expressed concerns about the winner-take-all nature of developing AGI and the potential risks associated with it, including cybersecurity threats and misalignment. The testimony is part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, which he claims has strayed from its non-profit mission to focus on AI safety.

Anthropic and OpenAI are launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services, with Anthropic's venture valued at $1.5 billion and OpenAI's at $10 billion. The ventures will focus on deploying AI services to mid-sized companies across industries.

Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice to commits in VS Code, after developers complained that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code. The change, which was introduced in VS Code 1.110, added 'Co-authored-by: Copilot' to commits that involved some level of AI assistance. However, developers reported that the AI authorship line was being added even when they weren't using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, and when chat features had been disabled.

AI inference is causing unprecedented concurrency and data problems in cloud storage, requiring a fundamental architectural shift to software-defined cloud storage to handle violent concurrency and massive throughput

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, testified in the Musk v. Altman trial, defending the company's mission and his own $20-30 billion equity stake. Brockman stated that his financial interests are secondary to OpenAI's nonprofit mission and that he and others have poured 'blood, sweat, and tears' into building the company.

Image AI model releases drive 6.5x more downloads than traditional updates, with ChatGPT and Gemini seeing significant growth after introducing their image models, generating tens of millions of new downloads

Ouster's new Rev8 lineup offers native color lidar, capturing color imagery and 3D depth information simultaneously, potentially replacing cameras in self-driving cars and robotics. The technology uses digital lidar architecture and single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors, allowing for more sensitive image capture and pre-fused data streams.

A new study found that an Open AI model outperformed human doctors in diagnosing emergency patients. The model, o1, was tested on both simulated and real-world cases, and it consistently provided accurate diagnoses. However, the study's authors emphasized that AI should not replace human doctors, but rather be used as a tool to aid them in making diagnoses.

TeamViewer ONE uses agentic AI to proactively monitor and resolve IT issues before they affect users, reducing digital friction and improving productivity. It combines AI with endpoint management, remote access, and digital employee experience functionality to provide real-time insights and autonomous remediation.

The White House is considering creating a new working group to oversee AI development, which may include a federal review of new AI models before their public release. This approach could mimic the UK's multiple layers of oversight to ensure AI models meet safety standards.

Hackers are mass-exploiting a critical flaw in cPanel, a popular web server management software, to gain control of thousands of websites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, was disclosed last week, and over 550,000 servers are potentially vulnerable. Around 2,000 cPanel instances are likely compromised, with some displaying ransom notes from hackers.

DoorDash has introduced new AI-powered tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes, and create websites based on app listings. The tools include an onboarding feature that automatically fetches information from a merchant's website, photo-editing tools like AI Retouch and AI Replate, and a commerce platform that lets restaurants create websites and marketing campaigns.

Instagram is testing optional 'AI creator' labels to increase transparency around AI-generated content. The labels will appear on profiles and posts, but are not required, allowing creators to self-identify as AI creators.

A report found that 20 state-run healthcare marketplaces include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies, including Meta and TikTok. The trackers collect data such as ZIP codes, sex, citizenship status, and race, potentially informing targeted advertisements.

Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg discusses the challenges of scaling teams, including communication overload, loss of shared context, and trust issues. She provides tools for behavioral scalability, such as communication architecture, engineering trust, and distributing cohesion.

Amazon has launched Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening its global logistics network to all businesses. The service includes freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping, competing with UPS and FedEx. Major companies like Proctor & Gamble and American Eagle Outfitters have already signed up.

The author used ChatGPT as a project manager to stay on top of work by integrating it with OKRs, calendar, Notion, and Slack. The AI agent helped break down goals into concrete phases, milestones, deadlines, and tasks, and provided a week-by-week action plan.