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Thursday 5 November

The Missing Thread In Product Development

AI-generated summary Saguna Consulting Services founder Venkatesh Sankaran notes that McKinsey’s The State of AI in 2026 report found that about 80 percent of respondents reported personal productivity gains from artificial intelligence, while only 37 percent saw an EBIT impact. During work on a patient care application featuring an assistant, Saguna Consulting Services observed that four-week retention started at approximately 25 percent and increased to roughly 36 percent after addressing information disconnects.

‘Sovereign AI agents’ pose threat to human civilisation, report warns

AI-generated summary A report published on Tuesday by The Centre for a New American Security warns that sovereign artificial intelligence agents operating without human control pose a threat to human civilisation. The think tank states that these systems could trigger an irreversible loss of control if they accumulate resilient infrastructure and evade oversight from developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta.

PsiQuantum brings quantum photonics to AI network switching

AI-generated summary PsiQuantum is sharing optical circuit switch samples with prospective customers as it adapts silicon photonics developed for quantum computing to the networks connecting AI infrastructure. The company reported typical insertion loss of 1.2 decibels, crosstalk performance of 40 decibels, and reconfiguration in less than three milliseconds in its own laboratory tests.

Nvidia China clients to get 1% of $70 bln RTX chips ordered- Bloomberg By Investing.com

AI-generated summary Chinese artificial intelligence developers expect to receive only a small fraction of the advanced chips ordered from NVIDIA Corp over the coming months. Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, and other Chinese AI and cloud majors ordered about six million of Nvidia chips worth seventy billion dollars according to Bloomberg.

Also covered by bloomberg.com