OpenAI launched Dots, its "always-on" personal agent, at DevDay on Tuesday, 29 September, following Meta's Muse, and the personal-agent rush is colliding with a US labour market that is already sending mixed signals about AI.
The refusal to hear Stephen Thaler's case closes the question of machine authorship, but shifts the dispute onto training on other people's data, where the EU data omnibus is rewriting the rules.
The FAO food price index climbed 2.5 points in August, or 1.9 percent month on month, with sugar up 11.9 percent. Year on year the index is 2.5 percent higher, but still 16.8 percent below the March 2022 peak.
Bangladesh's exports grew more than 13 percent in August, but the country has closed 402 garment factories in three years. Vietnam is aiming for 48 billion dollars in textile exports in 2026, while China is betting on domestic consumption.
