Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI
Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution.  Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three years, 76% say their current operations and infrastructure can’t support that change. They cite a lack of readiness across people, processes, and workflows.  The sticky…

xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together
xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together

  Elon Musk’s xAI has told employees to limit their contact with staff from Cursor , the AI coding startup that SpaceX has an option to acquire for $60 billion. The directive came from James Burnham, xAI’s general counsel and former chief lawyer at the…

Certo raises $4M for AI-powered consumer goods compliance platform

Certo,an AI-powered compliance platform for the beauty and consumer goods industries,has raised $4 million in seed funding to accelerate product development andsupport its international expansion. The…

Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day for AI trainers who used to work there
Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day for AI trainers who used to work there

Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two ex-bankers, are booked out for the next two months teaching financial institutions to actually use the AI tools they have already bought. Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two former investment bankers, are charging …

Smart glasses are back, and this time they’re pretending to be normal

Smart glasses are returning with better frames, softer branding, and AI tucked into something that looks almost normal. That may make them easier to wear, but it doesn’t make face-mounted cameras any less socially awkward.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology
Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology

The 24 hours since Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, have produced something unusual: a papal document being read in earnest by financial and policy capitals as a piece of tech-regulation analysis rather than a piece of …

BNP Paribas works with Mistral on a European answer to Anthropic’s Mythos
BNP Paribas works with Mistral on a European answer to Anthropic’s Mythos

BNP Paribas is working with Mistral AI to prepare for a category of AI cybersecurity tools its US peers already use and its European supervisors cannot reliably get hold of, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. The Paris-based bank, the eurozone…

Uber chief warns no link yet between AI tokenmaxxing and shipping successful products — company pumps the brakes on all-out AI spending

Uber might be having a serious rethink about lavishing cash on AI services as management still can’t draw a clear link between LLM use and beneficial results.

Voxmind raises £546k Pre-Seed funding as cloud giants exit voice biometrics market

London-based voice biometrics and deepfake detection startup Voxmind, has closed a £546,491 pre-seed round led by Ascension Ventures. The round also includes participation from Mark McDermott (co-foun…

Survey reveals that 99% of CEOs now expect AI-driven layoffs — companies are racing to replace junior workers with AI, even as many executives remain uncertain about the returns on AI investments

A new Mercer report reveals that 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs within two years, with entry-level workers facing the biggest threat as companies slash junior roles despite many executives admitting AI investments st…