Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them
Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them

Denis Machuel runs the world’s largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty…

Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%
Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%

Sundar Pichai spent Alphabet’s Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether t…

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way o…

telli secures $15M seed to automate customer-facing operations

Berlin-basedAI startup telli has raised $15 million in a seed funding round to expand itsAI platform for customer-facing operations. The round was led by redalpine,with participation from Mutschler, C…

IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2
IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2

IBM cut its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday after reporting a sharp drop in demand for its mainframe business, lowering its revenue growth target to four to five percent from a prior forecast of more than five percent. The company also trimmed its…

OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation

OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” t…

White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years
White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years

Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The init…

Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer
Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer

Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 years at the company. Keren joins this week from software platform Qualtrics, where he spent tw…

Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform
Monday.com is cutting 20 percent of its workforce as it pivots to an AI work platform

Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclosed the plan in a Form 6-K filed with the US Securit…