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The ECB says workplace AI use doubled while graduate hiring weakened. A multi-agent study finds that one persistent adversary can make benign agents privately adopt a false belief.

The ECB's Philip Lane says 52 per cent of euro-area workers now use AI, up from 26 per cent in 2024, while hiring plans for new graduates are muted. He ties the employment outcome to labour costs versus token prices.

Anthropic's junior technical hiring share fell as agent use grew. A new study finds models cannot name the cruxes that drive their conclusions, while AI review delayed PostgreSQL 19.

Anthropic's economists report that junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% of hires while agent hours reached six times human hours. The report is one company's account of itself, but it shows what happens when human attention becomes the bottleneck.

The Federal Reserve now hears firms hiring less after AI productivity gains. A game-design experiment favours agent teams, while a memory study finds that models often retain answers they fail to report.

In three months the Federal Reserve's regional survey moved from firms using AI to firms cutting staff by attrition, delaying hiring or expecting fewer jobs. The evidence is anecdotal, but it matches what payroll data show for young workers.

Mistral has opened API access to its one-trillion-parameter multimodal model and set 27 October for the open-weight release, leaving architecture and benchmark claims provisional.

SoftBank paid the final $10 billion tranche of its 2026 OpenAI commitment, bringing its cumulative investment to $64.6 billion.

Bull expanded its Angers plant from six to 12 supercomputer racks a month as Europe builds more sovereign AI capacity.

A 1,050-leader survey finds widespread AI gains but only 13% of implementers scale projects as originally planned.

Google has unveiled its largest Gemini model but has not opened it to the public. Independent reporting shows a deliberately narrow launch after delays and a cancelled intermediate model.

Six major AI companies signed a voluntary White House safety accord built around internal controls and outside audits. The document creates no legal enforcement or public reporting duty.