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Apple, Amazon and Microsoft each introduced AI devices in the past week, priced at $299, up to $500 and from $2,599. Holiday sales will give an early answer on whether AI sells hardware, though the three products test different bets.
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Praktika's head of talent came back from six months of leave to more than 1,000 applicants for some roles and an AI system she could not find. Business Insider's report of three returners supports planning for the gap, but shows no tested fix.
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CodeWall, a London startup, launched with $4 million for AI agents that attack enterprises, pitched as a replacement for the once- or twice-yearly pen test. A buyer weighing the annual test against it has the company's own runs against consulting firms to go on.
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Boucheron cut Korean prices on Quatre items by 5% to 11% three months after a July rise, en.sedaily.com reported. The largest cut, 10.82%, fell on a pendant raised more than 12% in July, a narrow base for any conclusion about luxury pricing power in Korea.
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Burning Glass Institute economist Gad Levanon found real output in white-collar sectors rose 16% since end-2022 as employment fell roughly 2%. Growth there has stopped bringing hiring, but the economists quoted disagree on why.
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Senior roles drove 71% of the rise in US software job postings in the year to May 2026, Indeed Hiring Lab data show. Postings are still 27.5% below pre-pandemic levels, and the new openings favor experienced people who can check AI-written code over juniors.
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Amazon cut drone flights in College Station, its longtime test market, even after the FAA dismissed residents' complaints. A Fast Company analysis argues local pressure on routes may now matter more than federal rules, since McKinsey's cost figures leave drones little room for detours.
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Korean companies paid about $620 million in stablecoins between 2021 and September 2026, Allium data show, through affiliates and partners abroad. Whether that flow returns once Seoul's stablecoin bill arrives depends most on small exporters whose foreign buyers asked to pay this way.
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Anthropic is putting $100 million into a residency meant to train and credential 10,000 enterprise engineers on Claude by the end of 2027. Residents finish by running live Claude projects at their own employers, so the money buys deployments along with the teaching.
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Higgsfield AI spent $400,000 of Hell Grind's $500,000 budget on compute and $100,000 on the 15 people who made the 95-minute film. Its reported $5.4 billion valuation turns on how much of that compute spend it keeps from the model makers behind its platform.
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About a third of organizations in a 1,719-person McKinsey survey passed on at least one software purchase because they could build it with AI. The exposure is vendors' add-on revenue. Each builder also takes on upkeep a vendor would otherwise carry.
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Komprise launched Universal File MCP, one interface for AI agents to reach files in any storage silo, including ones Komprise does not manage. It offers to shrink the list of per-vendor servers agents load, on evidence that so far comes mostly from Komprise itself.
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Alaska Air Group unveiled a premium economy cabin and upgraded lie-flat suites, its latest global push since buying Hawaiian for nearly $2 billion in 2024. It puts Alaska where its own CEO says the legacy carriers are strongest.
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Concentric AI's Madhu Shashanka says the gap between 80% reporting personal AI gains and 37% reporting any EBIT impact is a coordination failure. His argument puts mapping how deployed agents hand work to each other ahead of buying more of them.
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The big firms are repositioning as technology shops sold on multi-year delivery. What buyers sign for is a system inside their own operating model, and the recourse still looks like time and materials.
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Economists at the Dallas Fed have put numbers on what instant, round-the-clock deposits would cost bank lending capacity. The banks building those rails are the ones carrying the exposure.
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Each of the three spent the past year shipping its own agent payment protocol. Know Your Agent reconciles those stacks rather than building a new one, and none of them has said who pays when an agent buys the wrong thing.
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The bank moved a single test payment between North America and Europe on Stellar, and its head of digital assets calls USBDC one component of a strategy that also runs through the Open Standard and Zelle consortiums.
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Andrew Power told CNBC that cloud and enterprise demand has outrun supply in his markets for years. The $3 trillion real-estate forecast investors are leaning on comes from JLL, a firm paid to broker that space.
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Gartner found 72% of CIOs at break-even or worse on AI and expects more than 40% of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027 on cost. A platform founder argues both figures show that every new agent rebuilds the same plumbing.
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