Writer releases Palmyra X5, delivers near GPT-4 performance at 75% lower cost

Writer unveils Palmyra X5: The enterprise AI model that processes 1,500 pages at once, costs 75% less than GPT-4, and enables affordable autonomous agents for businesses seeking automation ROI. [...]

In the Age of AI, What Does Meaning Look Like?

Commentary: We're heading into a world saturated with AI. With automation everywhere, I wonder what will become our primary source of purpose, identity and meaning. [...]

Avoiding Gen AI Pilot Fatigue: Leading with Purpose

We’ve seen this story before: disruptive technology captures the imagination of business leaders across industries, promising transformation at scale. In the early 2010s, it was robotic process auto [...]

UiPath’s new orchestrator guides AI agents to follow your enterprise’s rules

UiPath's agent orchestration layer Maestro moves prompts through three layers: the agent, a human and the robotic process automation system. [...]

French-Swiss software merger to mint Europe’s latest unicorn

French software firm LumApps is set to merge with Swiss counterpart Beekeeper in a deal that will create a new business valued at over $1bn. LumApps, which calls itself an “intranet super app,” of [...]

The first chapter of AI-driven bankruptcy

Amazon and other big tech companies are shedding workers while increasing automation. [...]

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darli [...]

Dow Chemical joins the layoff bandwagon, cutting 4,500 jobs

Company says the move will save $2 billion or more as it leans more heavily on AI and automation to get things done. [...]

Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google's Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use na [...]