Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofitting to catch up with their own standards, and they are budgeting for it: In each of the five control layers we measur [...]
As an HR expert whose time in the industry stretches back before all-in-one software solutions were even a thing, I have spent more time than I care to admit testing HR platforms. But, this is important work (or at least I tell myself that it is), because at some point, every growing company hits the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
A two-year investigation by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) and a separate analysis by The Atlantic point to a systematic double standard: Tech giants train AI on copyrighted works scraped at scale, while their own terms of service prohibit the same practice for their platforms.<br /> The article Tech's data double standard: scrape to train, block everyone els [...]
Duolingo is now going to be "AI-first," the company has announced — aka it will drop employees in favor of using AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle." This follows the company's January 2024 decision to cut 10 percent of its contractors, in part because AI could do the [...]
As tech giants push custom AI tools into the public sector, experts question what’s at stake when governments depend on private companies to shape policy, security, and public services. [...]