2026-07-28
Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt
Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines?At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should be absorbed by AI agents so that humans can focus on problems that require judgment, intent, and exception handling. In f [...]
2026-07-28
The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call
The most expensive moment in a B2B sales cycle does not look like one. An account executive is thirty minutes into a live call. Discovery is finished, the buyer is engaged, and the conversation has moved past polite curiosity into the part where deals get decided. Then comes the question that matters: how the integration […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
How artificial intelligence is used to streamline corporate travel logistics
The evolution of enterprise software has solved countless operational bottlenecks over the past decade. Supply chains are mapped in real time, and global payrolls execute automatically across dozens of tax jurisdictions with total precision. Yet somehow, arranging a simple business trip still frequently requires employees to wrestle with archaic interfaces and manual approval workflows. Asking h [...]
2026-07-28
Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.
The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with fines of up to 3% of global […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed
Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme under review by NIST, by cutting its effective key strength in half. The second improves the best-known attack on seven-round AES, the most widely used symmetric cipher, by 200-800x. […]<b [...]
2026-07-28
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map — but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 looks nothing like any foldable on the market, and that is exactly the point. [...]