Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?

When OpenAI announced its new shopping search capabilities, I took the news with a grain of salt (perhaps the whole shaker). For the past decade, we have watched the slow evolution of traditional sear [...]

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack. [...]

Mutable Tactics raises €1.8 million in a pre-seed fund to develop drone automation with AI

Mutable Tactics, a UK-based defense-tech startup, just raised €1.8 million in a pre-seed fund round to develop an AI software that enables drone team collaboration for autonomous operation and decis [...]

Watch out - hackers are coming after your Christmas bonus, as paychecks come under threat

Payroll-focused social engineering attacks target help desk staff, redirect employee salaries, and show how human factors can bypass traditional technical protections. [...]

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic codi [...]

Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

Recruiters spend hours a day calling, leaving voicemails, and asking the same questions. Ringtime automates the whole thing, and has already found a second home in real estate. There is a well-worn fr [...]

The enterprise voice AI split: Why architecture — not model quality — defines your compliance posture

For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick [...]

The Environmental and Human Rights Costs of China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impac [...]

Marceu Martins on designing ⁠‌99.9% ‍uptime ‍​systems where ​1% ‌failure ​‌‍isn’t ⁠an ​option

Mar‍c‍eu ‍Martins ‍⁠‌⁠has ‍sp‍ent ‍⁠25 ​years working in ‍par‍ts ⁠of technology ‌⁠​where ‍failure ‍​is ​not ‍abstract. In ​the ​systems ‌⁠he desig [...]