China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its …
The word “agent” is everywhere in enterprise software right now, which is exactly why Convey does not want to use it. The startup has raised a $38mn Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC joining. Its pitch is a deliberat…
A year ago, the smart move inside a big company was to use as much AI as humanly possible. Some firms even ranked employees on leaderboards by how many tokens they burned, a status game that earned its own name: tokenmaxxing. That era is ending. The sa…
TL;DR: AI is making it easier than ever to build software that looks impressive in a demo. But after working in OpenAI’s first intern cohort, I learned that the real challenge is not just speed. It is judgment: knowing what to trust, what to test, and …
A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-st…
Monday.com is becoming an investor. The Israeli work-management company has launched Monday Ventures, a corporate fund that will put up to $200m into startups building the next generation of workplace AI, according to a report in the Israeli business d…
Entrepreneur Marco Riedesser has spent his career building automation systems, which is precisely why his views on AI and jobs stand out. In a conversation that moves from coding and robotics to universal income and purpose, he argues that the real cha…
Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the cod…
On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The prod…
Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the speed at which candidate pools can be filtered, and the complexity of searches that can be …