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WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according ‌to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company ‌disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test.

Sales in the segment increased 8% while the company’s overall business grew 2%, the automation giant said on its first-quarter 2026 earnings call.

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to apply agents across security operations, but many implementations remain anchored to existing alerts, predefined workflows, and known attack behaviors. The harder problem is identifying what defenses miss and turning those gaps…

Each selected team received $100,000 in investment funding to participate in a three-month sprint supporting technologies with defense, government, and commercial applications.

Retail Gets Real episode 414: Joe Cano shares how Lowe’s is driving digital transformation

Global fintech investment across venture capital, private equity, and M&A increased from $72.2 billion in H2’25 to $103.1 billion in H1’26, putting the sector on pace for its strongest annual investment performance in four years

AI spending keeps getting bigger. Figuring out how to price it is still surprisingly hard.

IIT Roorkee: IIT Roorkee has introduced a 4-month online Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Building AI-Powered Business Applications. Designed for working professionals and leaders without prior coding requirements, it focuses on no-code tools, Generative AI, AI agents, and enterprise workflows through live weekend classes and hands-on capstone projects.

Two years ago, at this very same Symposium, I argued that Europe had a unique opportunity.[2]

Today we are announcing that Amazon has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB. We expect the transaction to close shortly, subject to customary closing conditions. Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt, who created DuckDB and co-founded DuckLabs, will continue leading the team and the open-source project’s…