Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories, and 2022 now looks 30% more AI-skilled than it was

A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT [...]

a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andr [...]

The hybrid model: why the smartest finance teams aren’t going all-in on AI

Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but loosely. They’re calling forecasting “mo [...]

The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a l [...]

Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight, th [...]

87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resultin [...]

Social media influencer, father, and ex-boyfriend charged in murder-for-hire plot targeting pop singer

Gabriela Gonzalez, her father Francisco Gonzalez, and Kai Cordrey each face attempted murder and conspiracy charges in Los Angeles County [...]

DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances

Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investo [...]

NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio

The Paris-based cat-qubit company adds NVentures to a cap table already backed by FFC, AVP and Bpifrance, and deepens its CUDA-Q tie-up with Nvidia. Alice & Bob, the Paris- and Boston-based quantu [...]