AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.
AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people assume that software won’t just answer questions;…

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.
AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It…

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky
NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky

NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the American build-out of computing capacity for artifici…

Free AI chatbots are disrupting China’s expensive college counseling industry

Free AI chatbots from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu are disrupting China’s costly college counseling industry, helping millions of gaokao students choose universities and majors without paying consultants.

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small
Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thirds of everything it has raised. The company left steal…

Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building …

Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it
Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it

Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, and it is cutting them mostly from the teams that build its technology. The money it saves is going into the payment methods that could one day make those rails matter less. The payments networ…

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse
China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspace Administration of China released the draft for publi…

Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend
Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend

The startup, whose agents negotiate and pay across procurement for the likes of Unilever and Pfizer, is betting enterprises want software that acts, not software that suggests. Freehand, a startup whose AI agents take over the grunt work of managing wh…

Gemini can now summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs

Gemini can now sort sprawling Google Docs comments by reviewer or theme, surface unresolved questions, draft responses and suggest edits, though access depends on the right plan, settings and document permissions.