US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Justice Department to challenge state artificial intelligence laws the administration says threaten US competitiveness. In his order, Trump is taking issue with state “requiring entities to embed ideological bias within models” — although the example he gave of embedding bias was “a new Colorado

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an “expert level” compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers major improvements across a range of benchmarks, the company said. Using OpenAI’s GDPval benchmark, which compares

F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that “in a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning.” Microsoft’s latest Copilot usage analysis suggests this nocturnal tendency toward existential contemplation persists in the AI age – with religion and philosophy conversations rising through the rankings during early morning hours. The Microsoft AI

BBVA is embedding AI into core banking workflows using ChatGPT Enterprise to overhaul risk and service in the sector. For the banking industry, the challenge of generative AI is rarely about adoption; it is about value extraction. BBVA has addressed this by integrating OpenAI’s platform directly into its operational backbone, a decision that will see

Generative AI’s experimental phase is concluding, making way for truly autonomous systems in 2026 that act rather than merely summarise. 2026 will lose the focus on model parameters and be about agency, energy efficiency, and the ability to navigate complex industrial environments. The next twelve months represent a departure from chatbots toward autonomous systems executing

70% cite siloed data and weak governance as the main obstacles to maximizing the benefits of AI according to Dremio’s 2026 State of the Data Lakehouse & AI Report Release Highlights: 65% of organizations said agentic analytics and AI-driven decision making were the top priorities for 2026 while half said the main reason for adopting

Atomicwork, the leading AI native ITSM platform, today released the third edition of its annual State of AI in IT report, produced in collaboration with leading industry analysts ITSM.tools. This year’s findings show a major shift in how AI is being adopted and scaled across IT organizations. AI has moved beyond early experimentation into a

Ritten, a leading AI-powered system of record for behavioral health providers, today announced a $35 million USD Series B funding round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from existing investors Threshold Ventures, 8VC, Bienville Capital, and others. This investment will support Ritten’s expansion across mental health and addiction treatment providers spanning all levels of care. “Behavioral

SecurityPal AI, the Assurance Management Platform (AMP) used by leading high-growth companies and Fortune 500s, announced the launch of their Concierge Agents, beginning with “Libby”, the Knowledge Librarian. Libby is the first of 10 highly specialized AI agents designed to act as an always-on, time-zone agnostic, extension of enterprise security, compliance, and GTM teams looking

Pipefy, a leading process management and AI platform and an Oracle partner, today announced the availability of its AI Agents for enterprises across the United States. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) high-performance AI infrastructure and available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, Pipefy’s AI Agents empower companies to automate and orchestrate complex business processes with greater