Changing Your Career Isn’t Easy
Changing Your Career Isn’t Easy

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Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier
Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier

Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento…

Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland
Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland

Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wedne…

Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting
Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting

Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finis…

Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings
Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings

In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employe…

Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process

Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures also took part, the company sa…

‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem
‘When everyone’s responsible, no one is’: the AI champion problem

Find a champion. Protect 20% of their time. Wait for it to spread. One of the people in the room with me had run that play before, in the era of robotic process automation. Their leadership agreed to protect 20% of an AI champion’s time. A month later,…

Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times
Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatev…

Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports
Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, includi…

Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues rai…