2026-08-05
Your AI Agents Are Failing Because They Don’t Know Your Business
Last year, Absa, one of the largest banks in Africa, needed 120 days to move a new financial crime detection model from build to production. While that was close to the industry average at the time, that same bank today can deploy a new model in 15 days, even with the same regulatory environment, transaction volumes, and compliance requirements. And yet, a PwC survey found that 56% of enterprise C [...]
2026-08-05
Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left
The Salt Typhoon hack that breached America’s biggest phone carriers had a back door hiding in plain sight. A bipartisan House report has a blunt finding. Three Chinese state-owned carriers, pushed out of the US years ago, never fully left. Their leftover footholds, it says, may have helped keep the hackers’ infrastructure alive. US regulators […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-08-05
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-05
Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.
Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In the same week, a report found it pays almost nothing in tax outside the United States. The numbers are sharpest in Britain, Palantir’s biggest market […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
