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At Mobile World Congress, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm argued that the coming 6G networks will power an AI-driven "agent economy," where devices and AI assistants constantly communicate across the network. "AI will fundamentally change our mobile experiences," Qualcomm chief executive, Cristiano Amon says. "It's going to change how we think about our smartphones. Think about our personal computing. Think about and interact with a car. The car is now a computing surface. If you actually believe in the AI revolution, 6G will be required. Resistance is futile." The company says early consumer testing could begin around the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, with broader rollouts expected by 2029. Fortune's Kamal Ahmed reports: Akash Palkhiwala is Qualcomm's chief financial officer and chief operating officer. I spent some time with him at the company's stand, as his leading engineers took me through a 6G future where individuals will have real-time information delivered to them via their glasses. Palkhiwala compliments me on my watch, which only does one thing. It tells me the time. "6G is going to be the first time that connectivity and AI come together in the network. What we're building is the first AI-native wireless network that's ever been built," he explains. "The traffic that we expect on 6G is way different than what we had before," says Palkhiwala. "Before, it was all about consumer traffic. We expect 6G to be driven by [AI] agent traffic. Think about all these use cases where there are AI agents sitting on various devices -- your glasses, your watch, your phone, your PC. These agents are going to be talking back and forth across the network to other agents and services. "The traffic completely changes. 6G is being built with this idea that the traffic that goes on the network is not just going to be consumer voice calls or downloading videos, we're going to have agents talking to each other, so the reliability of the network becomes very important." On-device capabilities (the ability of your phone to process far more data); edge computing (locally sourced IT technology rather than distant data centers); more efficient use of available bandwidth (AI-enabled load control); and greater cloud access will all come together to produce a new wireless network. [...] "Today we are in the application economy," he notes. "On the phone, you want to make a travel reservation, you go to one application. You want to order an Uber, you go to a second application. You want to order food, you go to a third application, movie tickets, etc. The user has to go through that effort. In the future, you think of the app economy moving over to an agent economy, where there's one agent I'm interacting with, and I can ask that agent to book me a movie ticket or a plane ticket, to order food for me, get an Uber for me. It knows everything about me."

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His sudden braking caused other road users to brake sharply

Ali Alshmari, 30, died in the attack that unfolded in Alum Rock in Birmingham shortly before midday on Tuesday.

His death was announced in a post on social media, shared by a close pal on behalf of Gary's wife Barbara Leeds.

Stone Age societies embraced 'complex identities' and flexible gender roles, experts have revealed, after unearthing the skeleton of a woman who was buried like a man 7,000 years ago.

Joy Ballard, who shot to prominence on Channel 4's Educating Cardiff, changed term dates on two occasions and bought a karaoke machine with Ryde Academy funds, a misconduct panel heard.

Laoise Foley, a pre-sales consultant at London digital firm Smart Impact Limited, told a tribunal that managing director Ahmed Eltohamy had deliberately skipped her when pouring drinks.

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection

Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has changed over the decades.…

Police investigating the murder of a man found dying in a village street by a group of community litter pickers have named the victim as Mason Jones.

To find properties with mysterious offshore owners near you, input your postcode in our live module, which covers the whole of England and Wales.

The glamour model's new husband has faced a string of accusations about the nature of his finances, with a slew of his claims about his wealth, business acumen and celebrity-links revealed as false.

The US military has launched joint operations with Ecuador targeting 'designated terrorist organizations,' marking a major expansion of security cooperation in the South American country.

A video posted to social media on Tuesday evening showed a missile being obliterated by jets in Jordan as the RAF continues its mission to 'defend Brits in the Middle East'.

The mosaic of allegiances is complex, dynamic and at first impenetrable, with both unlikely alliances and feuds of exceptional bitterness.

The US President has vented his fury at Sir Keir Starmer over the Prime Minister's initial refusal to allow him to use British military bases for launching strikes on Iran.

They face a misconduct hearing this week

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: OpenAI today updated its most popular ChatGPT model, debuting GPT-5.3 Instant. GPT-5.3 Instant is supposed to provide more accurate answers and better contextualized results when searching the web. The update also cuts down on unnecessary dead ends, caveats, and overly declarative phrasing, plus it has fewer hallucinations. According to OpenAI, it tweaked the Instant model to address complaints about tone, relevance, and conversational flow, which are issues that don't show up in benchmarks. GPT-5.2 Instant had a "cringe" tone that could be overbearing or make unsubstantiated assumptions about user intent or emotions. The new model will have a more natural conversational style and will cut back on dramatic phrases like "Stop. Take a breath." Users found that GPT-5.2 Instant would refuse questions it should have been able to answer, or respond in ways that felt overly cautious around sensitive topics. GPT-5.3 Instant cuts down on refusals and tones down overly defensive or moralizing preambles when answering a question. The model will no longer "over-caveat" after assuming bad intent from the user. GPT-5.3 Instant also provides higher-quality answers based on information from the web. OpenAI says that it is able to better balance what it finds online with its own knowledge, so it is less likely to overindex on web results.

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The music festival drew huge crowds into Chelmsford for global music superstars

In a previously unpublished interview, obtained by the Daily Mail, Steve Wright's father gives a chilling insight into the warped mind of the son he thought he knew.

Sophie Brimble, 20, was the front seat passenger when her speeding motorist partner Jay Bayliss lost control of his Volkswagen Polo.