The partnership will see TCS creating a business unit focused on deploying Anthropic's AI models to its customers.

Every frontier model now scores above 88% on MMLU. So why does a 37% gap still exist between lab benchmark scores and real-world AI deployment performance? We explain why the tests keep lying, and what rigorous evaluation actually looks like.

A new Glean report found that workers spend almost a full working day over the course of a week supervising AI. Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images Workers are spending 6.4 hours a week "botsitting" AI, a Glean report found. Botsitting involves feeding AI context, debugging mistakes, and cleaning up errors. It's encouraging more workers to look for other roles, researchers said. AI is supposed to save workers time. Instead, some employees report spending hours every week cleaning up after it. A new report from Glean's Work AI Institute, produced with researchers from universities including Notre Dame, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, found that white-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours a week "botsitting" AI — feeding it context, checking outputs, debugging mistakes, and cleaning up errors. The researchers surveyed 6,000 full-time workers in the US, UK, and Australia who primarily work on computers or digital tools between December 2025 and January 2026. The term "botsitting" was coined by the report's authors to describe the often-overlooked work required to make AI useful. "Workers now burn an average of 6.4 hours a week botsitting — most of a full working day, every week," the report said. 'Often tedious' and 'exhausting' work The findings highlight a growing disconnect between individual productivity gains and companywide performance — a productivity paradox many companies are facing, Business Insider's Juliana Kaplan and Jacob Zinkula reported this week in a multi-part series, "The Great Coding Reset." While 87% of workers surveyed in Glean's report said they use AI at work and 75% said it makes them more productive, only 13% said their organization was performing significantly better because of it. According to Rebecca Hinds, head of the Work AI Institute at Glean and one of the report's authors, much of the missing productivity is being consumed by work employees never expected to do. On the "Cognitive Revolution" podcast on Wednesday, Hinds described botsitting as "often tedious," and "exhausting" work that is "not rewarded and it's not appreciated or tracked or measured and certainly not incentivized within the organization." The exit risk The burden appears to be taking a toll on employee morale. The report found that workers who spend an unusually large share of their AI time botsitting are 73% more likely to be actively looking for another job. "Workers who absorb it without recognition or reward grow exhausted. Then they grow resentful. Then they start polishing their résumés," the report said. According to the report, the frustration goes beyond the extra work. Many employees now spend their time moving information between disconnected AI systems, fixing mistakes, and providing context that the tools should already have — effectively becoming the go-between for technologies that don't work well together. In some cases, workers are also being asked to automate the parts of their jobs they enjoy most, Hinds said on the podcast, pointing to customer-service employees who enjoy building relationships but are increasingly expected to supervise AI agents instead. "That's what gives you joy and meaning at work," she said. "That is very dangerous." Breaking the botsitting cycle The solution isn't simply to deploy more AI, according to researchers. The organizations seeing the biggest gains are often the ones doing more work around AI — helping employees access the right context, teaching them how to use the technology effectively, and establishing clearer standards for what good AI-assisted work looks like. "The companies pulling ahead are doing something different," the report said. "They aren't spending a greater share of their AI time using AI. They're spending a greater share on the work around it: setting context, defining what 'good' looks like, building judgment, and deciding what should never have been handed to a model in the first place." The alternative, the authors warned, is continuing to pay the price in botsitting, and "in the steady departure of the people who got tired of cleaning up after the bots." Has your company's AI adoption left you "botsitting" or reconsidering your job? Contact this reporter via email at tspirlet@businessinsider.com or Signal at thibaultspirlet.40. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely. Read the original article on Business Insider

Coram AI cofounders Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska Coram AI Coram AI raised $35 million, bringing its total funding to $66 million. More than 1,500 sites use Coram, including Hershey's Ice Cream and school districts. CEO Ashesh Jain said Coram could eventually work with robot dogs and humanoids. Most security cameras are useful only after something has gone wrong. Coram AI wants to change that. The Bay Area startup has raised $35 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-powered physical security platform, bringing its total capital raised to $66 million. The round was co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, 8VC, and Mosaic Ventures. The company declined to share its valuation. Founded in 2022, Coram helps organizations use the security equipment they already have. It connects cameras, badge readers, visitor logs, and emergency systems, and uses AI to help security teams find incidents and respond faster. Coram is one example of a startup riding the boom in physical AI, a category built around bringing AI into systems that act in the real world. Venture capital investment in global robotics and physical AI has grown from around $4 billion in 2019 to $26 billion in 2025, according to PitchBook data. So far this year, companies in the space have raised more than $23 billion. Coram was cofounded by Ashesh Jain, who previously led autonomy at Lyft's self-driving division and worked as an engineering leader at Zoox, and Peter Ondruska, who led AI research at Lyft and Toyota's Woven division after Toyota acquired Lyft's self-driving technology in 2021. After spending years building AI systems for autonomous vehicles, Jain and Ondruska figured they could apply their expertise to an even bigger market: physical security. "Our earlier mission was to protect every public road, and now it is to protect every physical space," Jain, Coram's CEO, told Business Insider. Coram is competing in a crowded security market that has also drawn scrutiny. Verkada, valued at $5.8 billion, suffered a major breach in 2021 when hackers accessed more than 150,000 live customer cameras, including inside hospitals and schools. Other competitors include Motorola Solutions' Avigilon and Eagle Eye Networks. Jain said Coram is racing to meet customer demand. Since raising its $13.8 million Series A last year, Jain said the company's revenue has grown fourfold, and its customer base has tripled. The startup will use the new funds to expand its sales team and invest in product development. More than 1,500 sites across the US and Canada use Coram, Jain said, including Hershey's Ice Cream, Lakepointe Church, which has eight campuses in Dallas, and the junk removal company 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. The startup has found particular traction with school districts. Jain said Coram can detect a firearm, automatically alert 911, and help trigger a campus lockdown. The company is also rolling out a new product called Deep Investigation. The tool lets customers ask questions of the security platform and can be accessed through tools like ChatGPT or Claude For example, Jain said a school could ask Coram to find every fight on campus over the past month, identify patterns, pull clips with student faces blurred, and generate a report. A warehouse customer could ask how long trucks are parked at loading docks or when a facility is busiest. Jain said the goal is to give customers the equivalent of a sophisticated data science team, answering in minutes questions that would otherwise require more staff and hours of manual review. Coram impressed some investors by showing off its technology during the fundraising process. When UP.Partners' Ally Warson, an investor in the latest round, visited Coram's Sunnyvale office, the startup had its software running on the security cameras as her team walked in. Jain then invited Warson to ask the software questions in any language. "I told the product in French to pull up all the people who had entered the office that morning wearing white shoes with a blue stripe," Warson said. "And we watched it translate the French into English, and pull up photos of us entering the office." Coram's ambition is to become one of the largest security providers in the world. Jain envisions a future in which Coram's software works with robot dogs and potentially humanoids to help protect properties. "Every building will have robotic security," Jain said. "That is a part of our mission." Read the original article on Business Insider

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Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant. […] The post Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing appeared first on AI News.

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I traveled the world with my father-in-law at the end of his life. Heather Storgaard When my father-in-law was given a year to live, he told my husband and I that he wanted to travel. It wasn't always easy, but together, we took six trips over nine months. Our travels created a bond that I still feel privileged to have experienced. In February 2022, my father-in-law, Finn, was given a year to live. He had peritoneal cancer, a rare type that affects the abdominal lining. Although it was everywhere and incurable, the doctors told us it likely wouldn't cause him significant pain until near the end. So, over a Scotch, I asked him what he wanted — if there were any people he wished to see or places he longed to visit. Somehow, I felt a strong need to fulfill his final wishes. Turns out, he wanted to travel. Although Finn had retired to a farm in rural Denmark, he had always been the adventurous type — moving to California in the early '70s despite not knowing anyone there, traveling through the Soviet Union in the '80s, and taking his family on vacation to Uganda and Kenya in the 2000s. Knowing he only had a year left sparked a return to that thirst for new experiences of places, people, and cultures. At first, the idea of traveling together felt almost daunting. Chemotherapy had already begun taking a toll on Finn, and we wanted to make sure he'd have access to reliable care if his health took a turn for the worse. Plus, I knew my husband and I would both have to take a mix of paid and unpaid leave and use every holiday weekend we could in order to make it work. Given the weight of Finn's diagnosis, however, we all felt a quiet intensity surrounding every decision and interaction. A few months later, we took a leap and embarked on our first big trip to Seville, Spain. During our travels, I saw a different side to Finn Finn really enjoyed our trip to Seville. Heather Storgaard When we arrived in Spain, we spent time wandering the streets, marveling at the sand-colored buildings, decorative arches, and lush plant life in courtyards. Finn was immediately struck by the smells, the vibrancy of the streets, and the sound of parakeets flying overhead. Rather than the somewhat apathetic attitude to life and social interactions we saw him adapt at home, he seemed different on this trip. He wanted to experience everything he could. Still, he was far from a perfect visitor. In a sherry bar, where none of the staff spoke English, he decided he wanted a cup of tea. His solution to the language barrier was song and dance, complete with a mime demonstrating a teapot. At the time, I was acutely embarrassed, but now, the memory is one I'll cherish forever. By the end of the trip, he wanted to know where we would head next. His ability to cope with the cancer treatment seemed to hinge on having fixed plans to look forward to. However, I worried he needed more rest than he was allowing himself. As Finn's health declined, we learned to travel differently Over time, we traveled differently to accommodate Finn's declining energy levels. Heather Storgaard That fall, we took a trip to the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. By then, Finn's mobility and energy levels were noticeably lower than they had been in Spain. I even had to veto an extended tour of the St. Magnus Cathedral, a structure that my father-in-law had been deeply moved by. However, we adjusted to his energy levels, prioritizing slow breakfasts together and short walks that allowed Finn to feel connected to nature. He skipped a tour of a whiskey distillery, but managed to explore the magnificent sea cliffs, much to my surprise. Finn had enough energy to explore the cliffs in the Orkney Islands. Heather Storgaard Overall, we took six trips over nine months. Throughout our travels, friends reached out with well-intentioned concerns about us exploring the world with him. But, in some ways, it felt like we were only just hitting our stride. Still, we couldn't ignore the gravity of the situation, and the doctor's predicted time scale proved spot-on. We took our final trip together to Scotland at the end of 2022, where Finn blamed his lethargy and nausea on food and drink. However, it was becoming clear to me that this was the end of our travels. I'll always be grateful for the experiences we shared during his final year Later, from his hospital bed, he told relatives and friends all about our adventures, recommending the best views in Orkney and must-visit restaurants in Poland. A few months after our last trip, Finn passed away. At his funeral, people I hardly knew told me how inspired they were by his enduring thirst for life and new experiences. And to be honest, I was too. My father-in-law taught me how to work through challenges and find positivity even in the toughest of times. Rather than waiting for that momentous occasion — a big birthday or anniversary — I learned that spontaneous and imperfect experiences can be even more meaningful. Plus, our travels together created a bond among my husband, his dad, and me that I still feel privileged to have experienced. Read the original article on Business Insider

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other…

Not only is a round of $100 million not remarkably large anymore, it’s not even atypical.

AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements.

It’s the first estimate of how many Americans are sneaking onto Polymarket’s banned crypto-based platform.

With the evolution of new military technologies, the trajectory of war has undergone a massive change. Historically, wars were fought through direct confrontation on the battlefield, while contemporary warfare is […] The post Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare appeared first on SpaceNews.

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If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If you don’t think about that, you can […] The post Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation appeared first on AI News.

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It might not feel all that different from older World Cups—for better or worse.

Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send the ball all the way down the pitch and right out of bounds on the opponent’s end. Casual fans might scratch their heads. Where’s the logic in surrendering possession seconds into a game? If you were Jesse…

It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of total power capacity. The new facilities are nearly all gigawatt-scale pressurized-water reactors. Meanwhile, the US has built just two reactors in that…

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use.  For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a lifelong nature lover, he was increasingly concerned about…