Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep
Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but per…

Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep
Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but per…

SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI
SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI

Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday eve…

The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast
The automation billionaire is telling bosses not to cut too fast

Few people have done more to automate the office than Daniel Dines. So it is striking that the UiPath founder’s message on AI and jobs is a plea for patience, and a confession that he feels the anxiety too. Dines built UiPath into one of Europe’s bigge…

Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure
Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure

Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork of local banks, regional payroll vendors, and manual compliance processes. Anyone who managed international payments in 2…

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices
AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 …

The New Geography Of Entrepreneurship: How Founders Are Rethinking Where To Build

Entrepreneurship is spreading beyond traditional startup hubs as founders rethink where to build. New data shows how remote work and housing costs are reshaping growth.

Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs
Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs

Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker’s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe’s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest na…

California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs
California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs

California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs are flashing in the Bay Area and among college-educated workers. Everyone argues about whether AI is killing jobs. Almost …

OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US
OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technol…