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The Week's Must-Reads: AI Out of Control, Trump's Numbers, and the Allure of Miami
A curated weekly digest of the most insightful business, tech, and politics articles, from AI agents hacking the interne...
AI’s Biggest Workforce Question Goes Beyond Jobs, WEF Finds
The World Economic Forum’s latest analysis shows 78 million net new jobs by 2030, but experts warn that the real disrupt...
AI Model Generates Entirely New Viruses, Opening Medical Promise and Biosecurity Fears
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers trained an AI model on 9 trillion nucleotides, then produced functional viruses n...
AI Automation Is Erasing Entry-Level Jobs, Threatening Future Talent Pipeline
New research shows AI-driven automation is cutting demand for junior roles while raising skill requirements for those th...
AI’s Hype Men Face a Credibility Test as Investors Demand Delivery
From Elon Musk’s slipping timelines to Google’s DeepMind shake-up and safety lapses at frontier labs, the AI industry is...
AI Dominates July Venture Capital Deals as Khosla, Y Combinator Lead Rankings
Khosla Ventures led the most new rounds while Y Combinator participated in the highest volume; Coatue’s $10 billion Blue...
Marsh Names Jessica Fields to Lead New Semiconductor and AI Insurance Practice
The hire signals Marsh's push to provide tailored risk solutions for the booming chip and AI infrastructure sectors.
How LinkedIn Turned Brazil Into Its Third-Largest Market by Moving Beyond Resumes
Milton Beck, LinkedIn’s Latin America head, on how the platform’s shift from resume storage to active recruiting, AI-dri...
Vodafone Sells Dutch Ziggo Stake for €1bn as Turnaround and AI Push Accelerate
The FTSE 100 telecoms giant agreed to sell its 50% stake in VodafoneZiggo to Liberty Global for €1bn, the latest in a se...
AI Spending Jumps 110% but Data Silos Stall Enterprise Progress, Says ServiceNow Report
A new survey of 4,500 executives reveals investment in AI more than doubled, yet fragmented data and weak governance pre...
Walmart Closes Vibe.co Acquisition, AI Assistants Gain Traction: 6 Commerce Media Moves
From Walmart’s streaming adtech purchase to AI shopping assistants doubling conversion rates and Criteo’s outlook cut, t...
Major Labels Propose Rules to Block AI Songs From the Charts Unless ‘Substantially Human-Made’
Universal, Sony and Warner call on chart organisations to exclude tracks created with generative AI unless they meet a s...
This VC swapped an intern for AI and cut his workloads — here's what he pays
A Singapore-based venture capitalist says a $120-a-month AI stack — chatbots, coding tools and custom agents — replaces ...
SpaceX Insiders Offload $5 Billion in Shares as Stock Surges Past $1.5 Trillion Valuation
SpaceX shares jumped 6.1% to $114.92, pushing the aerospace, connectivity, and AI company’s market cap beyond $1.5 trill...
Quantum Computing Market Forecast to Hit $65 Billion by 2030, Offering Transformative Investment Potential
Quantum computing leverages qubits for exponential processing power, set to reshape cryptography, AI, and pharma. With a...
Veeva Systems' AI-Powered Cloud Migration Tightens Its Grip on the Life Sciences Sector
With 19 of the top 20 pharma companies on its platform, Veeva Systems is migrating clients to a new AI-native CRM, promi...
WPP Chief Cindy Rose: Outcome-Based Client Pay Still ‘A Few Years’ Away
Despite CEO Cindy Rose making outcome-based remuneration a cornerstone of WPP’s turnaround, only one client — Jaguar Lan...
Ideally pushes synthetic consumer insights earlier into creative process, signs Omnicom Oceania deal
The New Zealand-based research firm argues that integrating synthetic audience feedback at the start of the creative pro...
A Slovak Founder, a California Dinner, and a $1.2M Bet on Invisible Health Data
Sebastian Kot, 20, secured $1.2 million from Long Journey Ventures after European funds rejected him repeatedly. His sta...
Data Shows 94% of YC’s Repeat Founders Return Only Once; AI Enables Leaner Second Acts
Crunchbase News analysis of YC data shows repeat founders peak at 65 in 2025, most return exactly twice after an average...
Rocket Companies Posts Record Market Share as AI Tools Drive Productivity, but Q3 Outlook Tempered by High Rates
Rocket's Q2 2026 net revenue nearly doubled to $2.78 billion, with market share hitting records in purchase and refinanc...
Blend Labs Reports Stronger Q2, AI Autopilot Gains Traction
Revenue up 7% to $33.8 million and non-GAAP operating income hits $7 million as the mortgage technology firm rolls out i...
Google Names Gemini 4 Lead as Both Co-Heads Quit to Launch Discovery Loop
In a seismic reshuffle, Google tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu to build Gemini 4 while Demis Hassabis stepped back and four AI ...
Paraguay’s Ad Industry Reboot: Why Relevance Has Defeated Interruption
After two decades of digital fragmentation, brands in Paraguay must now compete against everything — even memes. Ojo de ...
SpaceX Builds Human Sales Army for Starlink, Defying AI Automation Trend
Elon Musk says Starlink’s enterprise push requires a large team of people to explain the system and build trust, even as...
Crocs Launches 10-Year AI Transformation Program with Infosys
Crocs Inc. signs a decade-long strategic partnership with Infosys to overhaul its IT and business operations with AI, ai...
Over-Automation in AI Increases Fatigue, Not Just Efficiency, Lingnan Study Finds
Giving AI too much autonomy in high-stress human-machine teams backfires, raising mental fatigue and conflict, especiall...
Meshed Targets Mid-Market with AI-Driven Brokerage and a 10% Flat Commission
Vincent Liu’s insurtech startup Meshed is undercutting traditional commercial brokers by using proprietary AI to offer a...
SAP's Autonomous HCM: How AI Agents Could Put People Back at the Center of Work
SAP SuccessFactors CMO Lara Albert outlines a shift from efficiency-focused AI to human-centric automation, backed by re...
Palantir Shares Surge 30%, Adding $3.1 Billion to CEO Alex Karp’s Net Worth
A blockbuster earnings report sent Palantir stock soaring, lifting CEO Alex Karp’s fortune by $3.1 billion in a single d...