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Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026. That is the smallest share in at least 15 years, down from 27.4% a year earlier.
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Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg retires coding tasks in interviews after deciding that Claude does a better job.
Goodbye NotebookLM, hello ChatGPT.
Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He expects Amazon’s own assistant, Alexa for Shopping, to be the main agent people use to buy from the store.
Amazon’s free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn over the 12 months to September. Spending on AI drove most of the drop, the company said on Thursday. A year earlier it was a positive $14.8bn.
Apple’s new CEO defended the company’s current position in the AI landscape.
Tyler Shultz helped expose the blood-testing fraud at Theranos. He now says AI is hard to vet, and investors need to do real due diligence. Few laws govern AI, he added, which makes it hard for people inside AI companies to blow the whistle.
General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data brokers, who sold it on to insurance companies. GM must now get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data.
Pope Leo XIV called on Friday for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed”. Decisions on human life, freedom and the use of force must always stay under human oversight, he said.
ChatGPT will stop giving teenagers practical information about weapons and security systems, even when a question looks harmless, OpenAI said on Friday. The limit applies to teen accounts with no sign of violent intent.
Twenty House Democrats have asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman to promise not to fire OpenAI whistleblowers who share safety information. They also want OpenAI to keep its pause on its most capable models until independent oversight is in place.
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