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AI news flash: Japan’s 20-year government bond auction on Tuesday drew strong demand, reflecting investors moving into relatively safe assets as uncertainty over France’s bond market grows and concerns about AI-related financial risks surface. The auction’s bid-to-cover ratio hit a record high, showing eager buying of ultra-long JGBs and easing worries about Japan’s fiscal health. In France, political turmoil, street unrest, and public finance concerns have pushed bond yields higher, sending money looking for a safe haven…

AI news flash: Yat Siu warns that if you hand your personal schedule, family plans, travel planning, and even crypto investment advice to the same AI agent, it’s not just the agent that gets confused, you do too. He also points out that using an agent doesn’t automatically give you an edge: a thousand people asking an AI about the same trade may get roughly the same answer. Regulators have noticed, and the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee warned in April 2025 that widespread use of similar models…

AI news flash: GitHub interviewed three Java Champions about how they fold GitHub Copilot into their daily development workflow. According to the original summary, each developer shared how they use Copilot to solve real problems, and how it speeds up development and boosts overall productivity. The core principle the piece stresses is ‘humans stay accountable for the results,’ meaning…

AI news flash: FairStress is a benchmark from Allen AI that measures whether large language models show demographic unfairness in decisions that affect people, and it looks at more than just who the model ends up picking. Most existing fairness tests swap a candidate’s ethnicity or other identity and check whether the model still picks the same person. But FairStress points out that identical answers across both versions can hide differences in how easily the model changes its decision when challenged…

AI news flash: Yelp is rolling out a new feature called Check for Me. Users enter a party size and a phone number on a restaurant page, and an AI voice agent calls the restaurant to ask about the wait time, then texts back the result so you can decide whether to head over. Yelp launched a voice agent plan for restaurants and service businesses last year, and this adds the consumer side. The original article also notes that a user’s agent may end up talking to a restaurant’s agent, …

AI news flash: On Tuesday, Otter.ai announced it raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). This type of funding doesn’t dilute equity, and the provider earns returns based on the results that marketing spend delivers, which is different from the traditional venture model of trading equity for capital…

AI news flash: Asia’s AI investment boom is lifting exports and economic growth, but economists say the benefits aren’t reaching ordinary consumers. The view came out of the Business of Luxury Summit held in Bangkok on Tuesday (October 20), where the panelists included Pipat Luengnaruemitchai, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group…

AI news flash: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Broad City star and activist Ilana Glazer talked AI on Monday night at Webster Hall in Manhattan, at ‘The People’s AI Assembly’ hosted by the think tank AI Now Institute. Mamdani urged…

AI news brief: Dan’s Steaks in Singapore, run by former radio DJ Daniel Ong, is a restaurant chain that survived the COVID-19 pandemic and kept serving juicy steaks to hungry Singaporean diners. Now it has been brought down by another force beyond its control: inflation. The owner says rising operating costs are the reason for closing, and the chain is expected to shut down in the coming months…

AI news flash: In this episode of the Tech Latest Podcast, host Brian Chapman talks with Japan tech correspondent Tsubasa Suruga about SoftBank’s high-stakes bet on AI infrastructure. The discussion focuses on SB Energy, SoftBank’s energy arm, turning to renewable energy to power large-scale data center projects with a ‘power first’ approach…