AI-generated summary A&O Shearman announced Thursday that it will commit $1.1 billion to developing artificial intelligence tools and services over the next five years. The transatlantic firm stated that this amount is more than double the $500 million Kirkland & Ellis pledged in May to spend over three to four years.
www.infoq.com — QCon AI New York has published its full program for December 15–16, 2026. Engineers from LinkedIn, Netflix, DoorDash, Figma, Pinterest, Honeycomb, Harvey, Google DeepMind and OpenAI describe AI systems they run in production. Talks cover agent permissions and guardrails, eval loops, inference cost, AI code review, and team adoption.
www.helpnetsecurity.com — Embed Security expands AI SOC Platform to let teams teach AI investigation methods, add context and improve detection performance.
www.unite.ai — On November 11, 2026, NTT, Inc. announced a physics-based world model that evaluates candidate robot actions before execution to reduce failures such as dropped objects and collapsing loads, saying the technology raised...
