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Investors are dumping BPO stocks like Teleperformance and Concentrix, betting that AI will disrupt the call center industry. Teleperformance shares fell 29.3% after Klarna disclosed its AI assistant replaced 700 agents, …
Google removed a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI after Microsoft researchers found it intercepted users' search traffic and routed queries through attacker-controlled servers. The extension abused Chr…
Midjourney is pivoting from AI image generation to full-body ultrasound scans, sparking debate as the medical community advocates against widespread testing. The author argues that cumulative data from pervasive testing …
Blake Loch's self-published novel 'Fake Creativity' explores an author's descent into paranoia as he suspects an AI of plagiarizing his work, raising questions about AI's ability to replicate art. The book includes an AI…
AI coding agents now generate pull requests in seconds, but human review takes 4.6 times longer than for human-written code, creating an 'Audit Tax' that bottlenecks software delivery. Anthropic recommends building a ver…
Deploying AI agents to production requires choosing among cloud, self-hosted, or hybrid architectures, each with distinct trade-offs in cost, latency, security, and scalability. Cloud deployments offer speed and managed …
A developer argues that AI coding agents, while fast at generating pull requests, impose an 'Audit Tax' that slows down software delivery because human review of agent-written code takes disproportionately long. Citing a…
A high click-through rate in 2026 does not necessarily indicate ad success, as modern AI-driven bid strategies and campaign architectures distort the metric. CTR has shifted from a primary success measure to a diagnostic…
June 2026 saw major gadget announcements at Computex, Apple's WWDC, and AWE, including Dell's XPS 13 laptop, Segway's Navimow X430 lawn mower, and Xbox Series X25, but rising component costs due to AI data center demand …
MongoDB has introduced a native reranking capability for its Atlas database platform, currently in public preview and powered by Voyage AI, to help enterprises improve AI retrieval quality without adding separate service…
Shares of call-center companies Concentrix Corp. and Teleperformance SE fell sharply after Concentrix cut its revenue outlook and warned that clients are reducing spending, fueling analyst concerns that AI tools are maki…
A developer built CacheSnap, a performance monitoring SaaS that probes URLs from 8 AWS Lambda regions and uses a 9-rule deterministic diagnosis engine instead of an LLM to identify CDN caching issues. The engine provides…
Canary and Ulyses PMS by Septeo have partnered to expand the use of artificial intelligence in the hospitality industry, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and guest experiences through AI-driven solutions.
AI notetakers like Otter.ai and Fireflies have become common in corporate video calls, but a wave of lawsuits, a federal court ruling on privilege waiver, and the EU AI Act's August 2026 deadline are turning them into le…
A synthetic 'thirst-trap' profile on X and Instagram, posing as 'Derek Lam,' amassed over 31,000 and 40,000 followers respectively by posting AI-generated shirtless dancing clips and promoting paid exclusive content, exp…
The AI-driven price surge in the semiconductor supply chain is spreading to upstream materials and manufacturing inputs, with suppliers of power chips, capacitors, and other components raising prices. Germany's Infineon,…
Penguin Solutions upgraded its ClusterWareAI platform on June 25, adding an AI-powered operations agent and automated GPU health monitoring to simplify management of large GPU clusters. The company, which has deployed ne…
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 48 billion active parameters per token, available via API for agentic coding and tool use. The model features a 1 million-token context…
Best Buy's 4th of July sale offers Lenovo's Snapdragon X2 Plus-powered Yoga Slim 7x laptop for $999.99, down from $1,200, marking the first notable discount on this model.
Chip stocks have more than doubled in the first half of 2026 despite a turbulent period marked by the Iran war and geopolitical tensions, with the U.S. SOX chip index posting its best second quarter on record. The Federa…