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(Reuters) -Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to integrate their frontier AI models into its Agentforce 360 platform, aiming to deliver enterprise-grade AI tools to a wider range of businesses and regulated industries. The deals, announced on Tuesday, will embed OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model and Anthropic's Claude family of models directly into Salesforce's ecosystem, enabling employees and consumers to interact with customer data and analytics in ChatGPT, Slack and Salesforce's own software. The twin deals underscore Salesforce's push to make its Agentforce 360 platform a central access point for major AI models, as enterprise software makers race to integrate generative AI tools into everyday business workflows. Agentforce 360, launched globally on Monday, was designed to create, deploy and manage AI agents across an entire organization. The expanded OpenAI partnership allows users to access Salesforce's Agentforce 360 directly inside ChatGPT, work with data, build Tableau visualizations and to develop AI agents within the Salesforce platform. A new "Agentforce Commerce" feature will also let merchants sell products via ChatGPT's Instant Checkout while retaining control of customer data and fulfillment. Anthropic's Claude models will be available to customers in regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare and cybersecurity through Salesforce's secure cloud environment. The companies will also develop industry-specific AI tools and integrate Claude more deeply into Slack and the Agentforce 360 platform. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)

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(Reuters) -Oracle will offer cloud services using Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming MI450 artificial intelligence chips, the companies said on Tuesday, as they rush to tap the booming demand for infrastructure to support tools such as ChatGPT. The companies will first deploy 50,000 MI450 processors in the third quarter of 2026 and further expand in 2027 and beyond. The deal gives AMD another major client for its upcoming chips, while allowing Oracle to expand its processor offerings, at a time when businesses are rushing to secure compute capacity for developing AI. "Demand for large-scale AI capacity is accelerating as next-generation AI models outgrow the limits of current AI clusters," the companies said. Shares of AMD rose more than 3% in premarket trading, bucking a broader market selloff as renewed concerns over a U.S.-China trade conflict dampened investor sentiment. Oracle shares were down about 1%. AMD last week unveiled a deal to supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal, giving the ChatGPT creator an option to buy up to roughly 10% stake in the chipmaker. AMD had worked with OpenAI to improve the design of its MI450 chips for AI work and the startup is building a one-gigawatt facility based on the processor next year. OpenAI is also reported to have signed one of the biggest cloud deals ever with Oracle, under which the ChatGPT maker is expected to buy $300 billion in computing power for about five years. The "AI superclusters" with AMD will be powered by the chipmaker's "Helios" rack design. AMD's larger competitor and the world's most valuable firm – Nvidia – now sells racks, or fully integrated systems which include GPUs and CPUs, with AMD rushing to follow suit. (Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru and Max A. Cherney in San Francisco; Editing by Leroy Leo)

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Geneva (dpa) – Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, calling on people around the world to help get the problem under control. "Antimicrobial resistance is widespread and threatening the future of modern medicine," says Yvan Hutin, director of the relevant WHO department, in a warning from the body on Monday. One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are now caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, the WHO said, citing an analysis based on around 23 million data points from more than 100 countries. So what can we do?  Hutin advises us to reduce the risk of infection both at home and in hospitals by frequently washing our hands and using disinfectant gel, as well as by making sure we have any vaccines recommended by our doctor. We should also not automatically expect to receive antibiotics whenever we have a fever. "Trust your doctor," Hutin says. "If you have a fever and the cause is a viral infection then if you do not receive an antibiotic that is completely ok and that means the doctor has taken good care of you." If we do not get antibiotic resistance under control, then even routine operations could become life-threatening again, says Mathias W. Pletz, head of hospital hygiene at Jena University Hospital in Germany. Women undergoing caesarean sections would be particular in danger. "If antibiotic consumption does not fall globally, there is a risk of a return to a 'pre-antibiotic era'," Pletz says. "Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide," says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "Our future also depends on strengthening systems to prevent, diagnose and treat infections and on innovating with next-generation antibiotics and rapid point-of-care molecular tests." The WHO quantified the problem for the first time in relation to 22 antibiotics commonly used to treat infections of the urinary tract, the gastrointestinal tract or the bloodstream, or sexually transmitted gonorrhoea. The latest figures are from 2023. The organization also looked at various combinations of bacteria and antibiotics. It found that resistance increased in more than 40% of cases between 2018 and 2023, by 5-15% per year depending on the combination of bacteria and antibiotic. There are significant regional differences, with the problem particularly prevalent in countries with weak health systems. In Southeast Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, one in three reported infections is already resistant to the antibiotics studied. According to WHO data, 7.7 million people worldwide died from bacterial infections in 2021, with around 1.1 million of these deaths directly attributable to antibiotic resistance. The WHO is urgently calling for more research and development of new antibiotics. The following information is not intended for publication dpa oe hu xxde fbl rdp coh

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(Reuters) -Meta said on Tuesday that teenager accounts on Instagram will be guided by PG-13 movie ratings by default, as the social media company faces intense scrutiny for not doing enough to protect users under 18. A Reuters report in August revealed how Meta allowed provocative chatbot behavior, including letting bots engage in "conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta faced backlash after the report, with the company saying it would add new teenager safeguards to its AI products by training systems to avoid flirty conversations and discussions of self-harm or suicide. The company said it will use age prediction technology to place teens into certain content protections — even if they claim to be adults. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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(Reuters) -Oracle will offer cloud services using Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming MI450 artificial intelligence chips, the companies said on Tuesday, as they rush to tap the booming demand for infrastructure to support tools such as ChatGPT. The companies will first deploy 50,000 MI450 processors in the third quarter of 2026 and further expand in 2027 and beyond. The deal gives AMD another major client for its upcoming chips, while allowing Oracle to expand its processor offerings, at a time when businesses are rushing to secure compute capacity for developing AI. "Demand for large-scale AI capacity is accelerating as next-generation AI models outgrow the limits of current AI clusters," the companies said. AMD last week unveiled a deal to supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal, giving the ChatGPT creator an option to buy up to roughly 10% stake in the chipmaker. AMD had worked with OpenAI to improve the design of its MI450 chips for AI work and the startup is building a one-gigawatt facility based on the processor next year. OpenAI is also reported to have signed one of the biggest cloud deals ever with Oracle, under which the ChatGPT maker is expected to buy $300 billion in computing power for about five years. The "AI superclusters" with AMD will be powered by the chipmaker's "Helios" rack design. AMD's larger competitor and the world's most valuable firm – Nvidia – now sells racks, or fully integrated systems which include GPUs and CPUs, with AMD rushing to follow suit. (Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch computer chip maker Nexperia said on Tuesday it is facing export restrictions from both the U.S. and Chinese governments. In a statement, the company, a subsidiary of China's WingTech, said it is in negotiations with both governments to obtain relief. The Dutch state on Sunday took control of Nexperia to ensure its technology and operations remain on European soil. (Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch computer chip maker Nexperia said on Tuesday it is facing export restrictions from both the U.S. and Chinese governments. In a statement, the company, a subsidiary of China's WingTech, said it is in negotiations with both governments to obtain relief. The Dutch state on Sunday took control of Nexperia to ensure its technology and operations remain on European soil. (Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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By Phoebe Seers (Reuters) -Britain's financial regulator set out plans on Tuesday to encourage asset managers to "tokenise" their funds on blockchain, in a move aimed at attracting younger investors. Under the proposals being considered, UK asset managers would be able to create crypto tokens representing shares in their funds, using public blockchains like Ethereum. Until now, funds had only been able to use private blockchains. Tokenisation – the process of creating blockchain-based versions of financial assets – has seen a revival of interest this year, helped by rising crypto prices and U.S. President Donald Trump's support for the crypto industry. Proponents say it can improve efficiency and cut the costs of fund management. BRITAIN SEEKING A BIGGER ROLE IN CRYPTO "Tokenisation has the potential to drive fundamental changes in asset management, with benefits for the industry and consumers," Simon Walls, executive director of markets at Britain's Financial Conduct Authority, said in a statement launching a consultation on the plans. The move is the latest sign of Britain's push to promote digital assets. The country's finance ministry last month announced plans to co-operate with the U.S. on crypto. The FCA also sought feedback on whether to allow stablecoins – crypto assets that are pegged to a fiat currency – to be used as settlement for the funds. In a press briefing, Nike Trost, interim director buy-side at the FCA, acknowledged that the benefits could take a while to materialise, as firms take time to upgrade their technology. The watchdog said it was minded to act as technology was driving changes in consumer expectations around investing. Almost half (47%) of the users of trading apps are aged 18-34, the FCA said, and such apps typically sell low-cost investments in shares, or fractions of them, rather than funds. The regulator said the possibility of allowing regulated funds to invest in cryptocurrencies would be considered in a future review. (Reporting by Phoebe Seers. Additional reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft. Editing by Mark Potter)

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By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Broadcom is launching a new networking chip on Tuesday that will help companies build artificial intelligence computing systems by stringing together hundreds of thousands of chips that crunch data, deepening its rivalry with Nvidia. The chip, called the Thor Ultra, enables computing infrastructure operators to deploy far more chips than they otherwise could, allowing them to build and run the large models used to power AI apps such as ChatGPT. The Thor Ultra will battle Nvidia's networking interface chips and aim to further entrench Broadcom's control of network communications inside data centers designed for AI applications. It comes after Broadcom on Monday unveiled a deal to roll out 10 gigawatts worth of custom chips for ChatGPT maker OpenAI beginning in the second half of 2026, challenging Nvidia's grip on the AI accelerator market. AI represents a big opportunity for Broadcom. Chief executive Hock Tan said late last year the market the company is going after for its various AI chips is in the range of $60 billion to $90 billion in 2027, divided between its networking chips and the data center processors it helps Alphabet's Google and OpenAI make. Broadcom reported AI revenue of $12.2 billion in fiscal 2024. In September, it announced a new, unnamed $10 billion customer for its custom data center AI chips. The Thor Ultra chip, part of Broadcom's growing catalog of networking chips, operates as a critical link between an AI system and the rest of the data center. The networking chips help data center operators move information around inside a facility. "In the distributed computing system, network plays an extremely important role in building these large clusters," Ram Velaga, a Broadcom senior vice president, told Reuters. "So I'm not surprised that anybody who's in the GPU business wants to make sure that they are participating in the networking." FOCUSING ON CHIP DESIGN While networking chips are crucial to the company's plans, the AI chips Broadcom helps design for large cloud computing companies such as Google are lucrative. Broadcom has worked on multiple generations of Google's Tensor processor, which Google began designing more than a decade ago. The Tensor chips have generated billions of dollars in revenue for Broadcom, according to analyst estimates. During a tour in September of Broadcom's San Jose network chip-testing labs where engineers work on current and forthcoming designs of its networking chips, company executives detailed measures taken to construct and test new networking processors. Towards that end, Broadcom's engineers doubled the bandwidth on Thor Ultra compared with the prior version. They put the chips through rigorous testing and evaluation from the earliest stages of production. To make a chip like the Thor Ultra or flagship series of Tomahawk networking switches, the engineers build an entire system around the chip. With the hardware system team, the engineers will discuss what kind of package the chip uses, how much power it will need and how much heat it will emit, Velaga said. Broadcom does not sell servers itself but offers the designs for components and systems it creates for testing to its customers in order to give them a reference point to construct the networking infrastructure around it. "For every dollar we invest in our silicon, there is at least $6 to $10 that our ecosystem partners are investing," Velaga said. "So a lot of our focus is on design, as if we are almost ready to take it to production." (Reporting by Max A. Cherney in San Francisco; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Broadcom is launching a new networking chip on Tuesday that will help companies build artificial intelligence computing systems by stringing together hundreds of thousands of chips that crunch data, deepening its rivalry with Nvidia. The chip, called the Thor Ultra, enables computing infrastructure operators to deploy far more chips than they otherwise could, allowing them to build and run the large models used to power AI apps such as ChatGPT. The Thor Ultra will battle Nvidia's networking interface chips and aim to further entrench Broadcom's control of network communications inside data centers designed for AI applications. It comes after Broadcom on Monday unveiled a deal to roll out 10 gigawatts worth of custom chips for ChatGPT maker OpenAI beginning in the second half of 2026, challenging Nvidia's grip on the AI accelerator market. AI represents a big opportunity for Broadcom. Chief executive Hock Tan said late last year the market the company is going after for its various AI chips is in the range of $60 billion to $90 billion in 2027, divided between its networking chips and the data center processors it helps Alphabet's Google and OpenAI make. Broadcom reported AI revenue of $12.2 billion in fiscal 2024. In September, it announced a new, unnamed $10 billion customer for its custom data center AI chips. The Thor Ultra chip, part of Broadcom's growing catalog of networking chips, operates as a critical link between an AI system and the rest of the data center. The networking chips help data center operators move information around inside a facility. "In the distributed computing system, network plays an extremely important role in building these large clusters," Ram Velaga, a Broadcom senior vice president, told Reuters. "So I'm not surprised that anybody who's in the GPU business wants to make sure that they are participating in the networking." FOCUSING ON CHIP DESIGN While networking chips are crucial to the company's plans, the AI chips Broadcom helps design for large cloud computing companies such as Google are lucrative. Broadcom has worked on multiple generations of Google's Tensor processor, which Google began designing more than a decade ago. The Tensor chips have generated billions of dollars in revenue for Broadcom, according to analyst estimates. During a tour in September of Broadcom's San Jose network chip-testing labs where engineers work on current and forthcoming designs of its networking chips, company executives detailed measures taken to construct and test new networking processors. Towards that end, Broadcom's engineers doubled the bandwidth on Thor Ultra compared with the prior version. They put the chips through rigorous testing and evaluation from the earliest stages of production. To make a chip like the Thor Ultra or flagship series of Tomahawk networking switches, the engineers build an entire system around the chip. With the hardware system team, the engineers will discuss what kind of package the chip uses, how much power it will need and how much heat it will emit, Velaga said. Broadcom does not sell servers itself but offers the designs for components and systems it creates for testing to its customers in order to give them a reference point to construct the networking infrastructure around it. "For every dollar we invest in our silicon, there is at least $6 to $10 that our ecosystem partners are investing," Velaga said. "So a lot of our focus is on design, as if we are almost ready to take it to production." (Reporting by Max A. Cherney in San Francisco; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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