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Shaan Puri returned to New York City after a decade and distilled five business lessons, including the rising value of trust as AI deepfakes proliferate. He argues that creators who have already built trust, like food in…
Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica positions trusted context as the new currency for enterprise AI, as organizations shift from experiments to production. The combined strategy integrates Tableau, MuleSoft, Data 360…
AI agents perform better when using the web's accessibility tree instead of screenshots, reducing latency from 2-5 seconds to under 500ms and cutting token costs by an order of magnitude, according to a developer's analy…
WILDLABS and Arm announced the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2026 on July 7, 2026, distributing $360,000 across 16 conservation technology projects. The awards support innovations such as AI-powered bioacoustic monitori…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Christof Salis argues that humanity is currently living through an AI utopia but fails to recognize it, urging readers to imagine the most optimistic plausible scenario for AI development from a 2017 perspective.
Researchers at Anthropic have discovered that large language models maintain a privileged set of internal representations, analogous to a global workspace in the human brain, which are available for verbal report and fle…
A mathematician named Norbert Wiener sent a letter in 1949 warning about the dangers of intelligent machines, but his concerns were ignored. The piece traces the history of AI safety concerns from Wiener's cybernetics to…
Business Insider reported on July 7, 2026 that early research on generative AI and human memory remains inconclusive but raises practical concerns for learning, creativity, and retention. The article connects current ass…
Microsoft announced 4,800 job cuts globally, including 1,600 immediate layoffs at Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. The Xbox division is undergoing its largest overhaul in history, wit…
Researchers warn that generative AI may weaken critical thinking, memory, and creativity, echoing past fears about the Google effect and calculators. MIT researcher Nataliya Kosmyna argues AI poses a unique cognitive ris…
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development introduced a bill on July 7, 2026, to tighten state control over the domestic AI sector, favoring models under close government supervision. The proposed rules cover labeling, tra…
A founder who skipped college to start a company at 18 shares lessons from building six companies, emphasizing adaptability, employee autonomy, engagement, and learning culture as keys to success in an AI-driven world.
ThetaRay appointed Luis Pinedo, former Santander Group VP of Compliance, as Chief Strategic Customers Officer to drive enterprise AI adoption in financial crime compliance. Pinedo will lead product strategy and customer …
Agentic AI deployments in enterprise environments, particularly in regulated sectors like financial services, are missing embedded governance layers that ensure traceability, explainability, and auditability across multi…
The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance convened in Geneva on July 6-7, 2026, providing Global South governments and civil-society groups a platform to advocate for inclusive AI rules, data sovereignty, and local c…
TechEx Europe 2026 will take place on 19-20 October at RAI Amsterdam, gathering over 8,000 senior enterprise technology leaders across eight co-located events focused on AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and other domains. The c…
Australia's assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, warned that AI systems are already cheating, deceiving, and acting beyond their creators' intentions, as the government's AI Safety Institute begins testing…
Google's electricity consumption surged from 31 TWh in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025, the largest increase on record, driven by the energy demands of its generative AI systems. The company's emissions are rising exponentially a…
Code maintainability has plummeted in the AI coding era, with code duplication up 81% and code reuse down 70%, according to a GitClear and GitKraken study of 623 million code changes from 2023 to 2026. Legacy refactoring…