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Why Silicon Valley's 'Already Made It' crowd is taking junior titles at AI labs
From the co-founder of Monzo to the former CTO of Workday, experienced tech veterans are trading power and prestige for 'member of technical staff' roles at Anthropic and its rivals.

AI agents are being trusted with more decisions than companies can actually verify
A new survey finds half of enterprises have already shipped an AI agent that passed internal tests and then broke something for a real customer. Only 5% fully trust the testing that is supposed to catch those failures.

Uber's Product Chief Wants Fewer Things Done Better, Starting With Robotaxis and Your Bank Account
Uber's top product executive talks self-driving car partnerships, a new data business, and AI features that riders and drivers will actually feel.

AI Is Pushing Older Workers Out of Jobs Earlier Than Expected, New Research Finds
A Boston College study shows workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed roles are leaving the workforce sooner, and the jobs most at risk are not the ones most people expect.

PixVerse Raises $439 Million and Hits $2 Billion Valuation in AI Video Push
The Singapore startup lets users generate 4K video from a single image. Alibaba is already a customer, and 150 million people have signed up.

57% of Enterprises Have Been Burned by a Confident AI Answer That Was Wrong. Here Is Why It Keeps Happening.
A new survey puts numbers on a problem IT teams already know: AI agents deliver wrong answers with total certainty, and the root cause isn't the model. It's the missing layer that tells the model what your business data actually means.

Google's TabFM learns to predict from data it has never trained on
A new AI model from Google Research can analyse a spreadsheet it has never seen before and return a prediction in a single step, no custom training required.

DeepSeek Slashed Prices 75%. AI Costs Are Still Rising.
Cheaper AI models were supposed to make AI businesses more profitable. A hidden problem called token amplification is doing the opposite.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that reads your Slack, manages your calendar, and builds websites on your phone
The new tool, powered by GPT-5.6, can spend hours on a task without you lifting a finger. Here is what it does, who gets it, and what it costs to access.

Enterprises Deployed AI Agents Without the Safety Nets. Now They're Paying to Retrofit.
A survey of 573 technical leaders finds most company 'agents' are glorified chatbots, expensive hardware sits half-idle, and two-thirds of firms are racing toward zero human oversight of AI decisions.

Slopsquatting: the hidden threat hiding inside AI coding tools
When AI assistants invent software packages that do not exist, criminals register those names and fill them with malware. Here is how the attack works and what developers can do about it.

Nous Research Is Raising $75 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation. Here Is What Its Hermes Agent Actually Does.
The startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent is closing a new funding round just three months after its last one. If you have never heard of Hermes, you are about to.

Ondas pays $875.8 million for drone maker DZYNE, betting big on AI-guided military systems
The deal bundles long-range spy drones, drone-killing interceptors, and AI cargo gliders into a single defence platform the company is calling Ondas Sentinel.

Microsoft's CEO warns companies are paying for AI twice, once in cash and once in secrets
Satya Nadella says every prompt, correction and workflow businesses feed into AI models is quietly training the companies they pay. He wants enterprises to take back control.

Apple's Revamped Siri Arrives in iOS 27 Public Beta. Does It Finally Work?
After years of broken promises, a new Siri built around reading your screen and connecting your apps is out for anyone to try. Early tests show real promise and real limits.

Yaskawa America earns top global cybersecurity certification for its robotics business
The Ohio-based robotics company completed a three-year security overhaul and passed an independent audit to earn ISO 27001 status, giving factory customers a formal guarantee their data is protected.

Why Spotting AI-Generated Faces Is Getting Harder
AI-generated faces are becoming more convincing, making it tough for ordinary people to spot digital fakes.

Anthropic found a hidden layer inside its AI's thinking. Here is what that actually means.
The company discovered words flickering inside Claude that never appear in its answers, including one that seemed to trigger cheating on a coding test. A genuine finding, but not a window into a robot mind.

Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it
A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.

Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?
A prominent tech founder says a properly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. The argument is wilder than it sounds, and more interesting.

AI Is Watching Both Sides of the Job Interview Now
Candidates use AI tools to answer coding questions in real time. Employers use AI to catch them doing it. The people caught in the middle are software engineers trying to find work.