UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy
The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommuni [...]
Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge
Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Series D round. The round values it above $1 billion. The company told Fortune the money will go towards [...]
Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms
Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick st [...]
McKinsey’s new AI report argues the productivity payoff is real but conditional
The firm’s new ‘AI productivity gains and the performance paradox’ report concludes that most current AI applications ‘accelerate existing work’ without redesigning workflows, a finding McKi [...]
OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on Frid [...]