Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Me [...]

Larper is the internets new favorite insult. Heres what it means.

As social media turns identity into content, "larper" has become the internet's favorite way to accuse someone of playing a role instead of being themselves. [...]

Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In th [...]

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the [...]

Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth betwee [...]

The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.

The boos at last spring’s graduations suggested a student revolt against AI. The data points the other way. Among business students at one Washington school, regular AI use has quietly become the no [...]

Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours [...]

A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turn [...]

Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion

Jeff Bezos has filed to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock, a stake worth roughly four billion dollars based on the company’s closing price on Monday. The filing, a Form 144 submitted to [...]