Adobe announces corporate AI agents and partners with over 30 AI platforms, Huawei opens preorders for passport-style foldable phone in China, and Germany’s chancellor argues regulations around industrial AI should be reduced compared to consumer offerings.
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At Adobe’s digital marketing and customer experience conference in Las Vegas on Monday, the company announced a series of AI agents aimed at corporate clients. AI agent CX Enterprise can be used to boost sales, loyalty, and customer engagement. The Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker agent can complete tasks independently, with the example of coordinating multiple other AI agents to gather business data to create and execute a marketing plan. Adobe announced a partnership with over 30 AI platforms including Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
On Sunday, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz said AI for industrial use in the European Union will require more regulatory freedom compared to AI for consumer use, calling current rules a “regulatory straightjacket”. In March Germany pledged encouragement towards investments to quadruple AI data processing capacity by 2030.
Source: Reuters
In a notice published last week, the UK government is opening an £80 million section of the £500 million sovereign capability procurement fund specifically for ‘Sovereign AI R&D Procurement’. Competition for contracts are expected to open in July 2026, with successful bids able to earn up to £5 million per 12-24 month project. The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology will set challenges in many development categories including: health and social care, national security and defense, cybersecurity, energy, public services, and scientific discoveries.
Source: The Register
Huawei opened preorders in China for its passport-style foldable, unveiled last week. The standard version of the Pura X Max is available for 10999 yuan (approximately $1,613) for 12GB memory and 256GB storage, and increasing storage to 512GB brings the price up to 11,999 yuan (approximately $1,800). The Pura X Max Collector’s Edition is 12,999 yuan (approximately $1,906) for 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, or 13,999 yuan (approximately $2,053) for 1TB of storage. No word yet on whether the phone will be released outside of China.
Source: The Verge
Microsoft is currently testing further improvements to Windows 11’s File Explorer through the Insider program. A November update added an option to preload File Explorer in the background to improve performance, but this did not address other issues like the bright white flashes when opening File Explorer in dark mode or spotty reliability in stopping explorer.exe after closing explorer windows. These issues should be addressed in this latest build in the Preview Channel.
Source: Bleeping Computer
Chinese smartphone maker Honor’s humanoid robot, named “Lightning”, won a half-marathon in Beijing over the weekend. Lightning completed the race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds, beating 12,000 humans, and surpassing the world record by 7 minutes. The robot crashed into a railing in the last leg of the race and received assistance to get back on track and complete the race. Honor robots also took second and third place. In last year’s event, only six of twenty-one robots crossed the finish line, with many stumbling, going out of control, or just laying down at the start line.
Source: NBC News
The Financial Times reports Match Group’s CEO Spencer Rascoff pledged to make increasing the number women on dating app Tinder his “primary focus”. Though Match Group does not publish the gender breakdown of Tinder, Sensor Tower estimates approximately 75% of users are male. Tinder is testing several features to encourage women to use the app, like double dates to bring along friends to make meeting strangers a little less risky. Previously Tinder had an 11% annual decline and last quarter the drop improved to 8.5%. Rascoff told the Financial Times, “It’s ridiculous to say people don’t like dating apps” adding “people don’t like dating apps that are ineffective”.
Source: The Financial Times
Pasta sauce company Prego teamed up with non-profit StoryCorps to make a tabletop device with two microphones to record conversations around the dinner table. The device resembles a hockey puck, must be activated and stopped manually, contains no AI or cloud connection abilities, with audio saved in CD quality on a 16GB microSD card. StoryCorp aims to record and preserve stories from Americans. Any recordings voluntarily shared with StoryCorps will be preserved in the US Library of Congress in the StoryCorps collection. The companies say the purpose of the project is to encourage people to stay off their phones during dinner. Only around 100 devices will be available, making it similar to a previous KFC stunt with a console designed to keep chicken warm, that only had a few units constructed.
Source: Wired
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