Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a robotics artificial intelligence startup focused on humanoid systems, as the company expands its AI work beyond software and into models that could help robots operate in physical environments.
Most enterprise organizations say they are ready to recover from disruptions involving agentic AI, but a new survey of more than 300 IT decision-makers from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States suggests relatively few test those plans often enough to prove it.
Microsoft has moved its Discovery platform into general availability, calling the service a production-ready environment for scientists and researchers that want to apply AI agents.
A recent report from Microsoft warns about two active cybersecurity threats: a fast-moving ransomware campaign and a Russian espionage operation that abuses small office and home office routers to monitor victims' network traffic.