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As companies struggle to integrate AI, they’re increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching new purpose-built groups to make sure they get it. On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers. Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast engagements and customer self-sufficiency. In a post announcing the new org, AWS VP of Frontier AI Francessca Vasquez emphasized that the org would do more than build and maintain requested systems. “Customers leave AWS FDE deployments with both new solutions…

OpenAI teased a new hardware product — but it isn’t the hotly anticipated personal AI device Jony Ive has been cooking up. This one is aimed at Codex AI coders.The OpenAI Developers’ X account posted a product teaser on Monday. The video showed a keyboard-like device slowly flashing a rainbow of colors, followed by two logos: OpenAI and Work Louder, a Canadian-Italian hardware company that sells keyboards and accessories.”Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade,” the description read. The post also listed July 15.While the full details on the device are yet to come, there are some signs as…

Proton, the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a public AI chatbot, Lumo, last year. On Tuesday, the chatbot received an upgrade. Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a variety of newfound powers including image recognition and image generation capabilities. Users can now upload pictures into Lumo, then use the chatbot to analyze or edit them. Similar to other LLMs, Lumo can also generate imagery based on a user’s prompt. 2.0 also expands Lumo’s capabilities for Projects — the widget that allows users to upload documents and conduct work via Proton’s other products like email, cloud storage. Projects now come with user-controlled…

Before the robots go to work, they have to go to school.Apptronik, a Texas-based humanoid startup that counts Google and Mercedes among its investors, has opened a “Robot Park” in Austin. At the nearly 90,000-square-foot warehouse, its Apollo robots practice tasks like loading boxes onto conveyor belts and sorting toys into bins.Most of the time, the robots are controlled remotely. The facility runs seven days a week, with Apollo robots practicing tasks as operators stand beside them, guiding and monitoring their movements. The data from those sessions is used to improve the AI models that act as the robots’ “brains,”…

The memory shortage at the heart of recent price hikes on consumer electronics is expected to get worse, with CEOs and analysts expecting further pricing pressures into 2027 and possibly beyond.The issue is simultaneously a consumer problem (shoppers are now paying more for Apple products and Xboxes), a supply-chain problem (companies face higher component costs, tighter margins, and increased competition for memory amid the AI data center build-out), and a PR problem (data centers were plenty polarizing before being tied in a roundabout way to consumer price hikes).There’s no quick fix, as the Great AI Infrastructure Buildout pits tech hyperscalers…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with T. Renee Smith, 51, who is based in Atlanta. She is CEO of iSuccess Consulting. In 2007, she was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for conspiring to use false financial information to obtain bank loans. Business Insider has verified her sentence and employment. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.Everything happened at once. In the space of a year, I got married, pregnant, and started serving my prison sentence. My business partner and I ran communication businesses, made some very bad decisions, and my life spiraled out…

The Andrew Carnegie Foundation announced its annual list of “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” on Tuesday. The 2026 class is:Incredible Health co-founder and CEO Iman Abuzeid, originally from SudanSunil Amrith, Yale University’s Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History (Kenya)Palo Alto Networks Chair and CEO Nikesh Arora (India)Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University’s Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics (India)Sanjiv Chopra, Harvard Medical School professor of medicine (India)Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics (Belgium)Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz (Argentina)Citi Chair and CEO Jane Fraser (Scotland)Johannes Fruehauf, Biolabs president and CEO and LabCentral founder and chairman (Germany)Gabriela…

Unlike many of its Big Tech peers, there’s no free lunch at Nvidia.A recent X thread by software engineer and industry analyst Gergely Orosz, who claimed that snacks and coffee aren’t free at the chip giant, drew attention to the chip giant’s relatively sparse workplace perks.Two former employees told Business Insider that cafeteria meals aren’t free but are subsidized, so some of the food’s cost is covered by Nvidia. Some beverages, such as coffee, are complimentary, but select bottled beverages and drinks purchased from on-site cafés were not.The policy reflects a different philosophy from the Silicon Valley perk wars that…

When AI agents begin working for people — and increasingly for one another — they will need a way to find jobs, pay for services, and build trust. Crypto exchange OKX is betting that future is closer than many expect, launching a marketplace where AI agents can hire one another, settle payments autonomously, and build portable on-chain reputations. Called OKX AI, the marketplace opens to developers on Tuesday following a closed beta involving 50 early AI service providers. The marketplace builds on technology OKX previously developed to let AI agents hold digital wallets, make payments using stablecoins, and establish persistent…

AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced that close to 90,000 job cuts were tied to AI, and, by some accounts, up to 15% of U.S. jobs are projected to be eliminated by AI over the next five years. Promises from the tech industry that AI will also create new jobs does little to ease fears, especially for the generation wondering if anyone will be hiring when they graduate.  A recent report from Ramp and Revelio Labs, which track enterprise AI spend and workforce records from nearly…