Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor port [...]

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex drops as Anthropic upgrades Claude — AI coding wars heat up ahead of Super Bowl ads

OpenAI on Wednesday released GPT-5.3-Codex, which the company calls its most capable coding agent to date, in an announcement timed to land at the exact same moment Anthropic unveiled its own flagship [...]

Our favorite 2025 advent calendars you can still get now: Top picks from Lego, Pokémon, Funko Pop and more

Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]

FCC just handed Netgear a de facto router monopoly in the US

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that Netgear has been given conditional approval that effectively exempts it from a previous ban on foreign-made networking routers. The conditional [...]

Trump's Genesis Mission aims to build a centralized AI platform to power scientific breakthroughs

President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the “Genesis Mission,” an AI-focused initiative that will be led by the Department of Energy. It will “harness the current A [...]

Disney teases an Olaf robot for its parks

Disney has unveiled a new animatronic in the form of Olaf, the carrot-nosed snowman from the Frozen series of films. The robotic character will roam the streets of the upcoming World of Frozen (coming [...]

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amaz [...]

Agent coordination is the missing piece in AI commerce — new AWS and Visa blueprints target the gap

With some needed infrastructure now being developed for agentic commerce, enterprises will want to figure out how to participate in this new form of buying and selling. But it remains a fragmented Wil [...]

Why the most impactful AI strategies still start and end with people

As AI agents reshape work, the real competitive advantage comes from empowering people to lead innovation. [...]