Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable
Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable

A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the …

AI browsers like Perplexity Comet can be tricked into spilling your password through BioShocking exploit

A new exploit called BioShocking convinces AI browsers they’re playing a game, then gets them to hand over your private data.

China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking claim about Meituan’s new artificial intelligence model…

Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla

He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in avillage the world had not yet heard of.The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your firstlife began in a storm, under open sky.One winter night you ran your hand alon…

Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care
Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Code…

Hypefy AI raises $7.2M Series A to automate global influencer campaigns

Founded in Croatia, Hypefy AI, a platformthat uses AI to automate influencer marketing campaign execution, has raised$7.2 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by AYMO Ventures,with p…

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t
Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising, especially for an industry navigating volatile fertilizer costs, unpredictable weather, and margins that leave little room for error. Research shows AI-enabled predictive models can improve crop…

Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no
Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no

Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says “Doctor ChatGPT” is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, strongly disagree. Andreessen made the remark on Joe Roga…