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 [...]

The next frontier in fintech is understanding the person behind the data

Fintech has spent almost two decades making financial information increasingly accessible, portable, and actionable. Open banking, digital wallets and connected financial platforms have created an env [...]

The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things

Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at wha [...]

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face at a valuation above $13bn, according to Business Insider, days after reports that the open-model hub was exploring a sale at roughly that figure. The [...]

UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028

Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He [...]

JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout

JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its [...]

Voltpost is making an EV charger that hangs from your garage ceiling

Voltpost has launched two Level 2 chargers that mount on parking garage ceilings and on walls, avoiding trenching and cutting installation costs by up to 70% according to the company. Europe’s revis [...]

The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro’s approach to human-AI collaboration

Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. “The bes [...]

Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear

Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries including Germany and Fra [...]