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The world’s biggest consultancies are selling companies expensive advice on how to adopt AI without getting burned. Their own reports keep getting burned. PwC is the latest to be caught. Four of its Middle East “thought leadership” reports were a mess, the Financial Times reported. The reports, on AI and electric vehicles, carried fake footnotes, […]
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Every AI agent a company switches on needs an identity to log in and reach data. Enterprises now run millions of them, with almost no way to keep track. That gap just sold for $1bn. The data-security firm Cyera has agreed to buy Oasis Security for around $1bn, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It […]
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AI agents don’t log in like people. That problem just sold for $1bn. Read More »
BuzzFeed bet on AI to rescue itself. This week it laid off another third of its staff. The bet, it turns out, was never the thing that could save it. The company cut about 180 jobs on Monday, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, the New York Times reported. The cuts hit the news […]
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BuzzFeed bet on AI to save it. It just cut another third of its staff. Read More »
Runlayer spent nearly a year showing Rippling how its product worked, down to the source code. It now says Rippling used that access to build a near-copy. The New York AI-security startup sued Rippling on Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court, the New York Post first reported. The complaint alleges trade-secret theft, unfair competition and […]
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Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is the most valuable startup in the world, […]
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Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway. Read More »
Shein wanted its Hong Kong listing to be about growth. Instead, the filing meant to sell that story revealed a US regulator is investigating the company, and Shein will not say why. The disclosure sits in the draft prospectus for Shein’s planned IPO, Reuters reported. Its US business, the filing said, is under investigation by […]
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The Trump administration spent Tuesday clearing environmental law out of the way of the tech boom. It did so twice, on two fronts, with the same justification. The first move exempts data centres from the rules meant to stop acid rain. The second frees rocket launches from federal environmental review. Together they show how far […]
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The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law. Read More »
Apple has become the second company in history worth $5tn. It got there by being the one big-tech giant that refused to bet its balance sheet on AI. The iPhone maker briefly touched a $5.04tn market value on Tuesday. Shares hit a session high of $342.89 before easing to close at $340.08, just under the […]
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Apple hit $5tn by refusing to play the AI game everyone else is losing Read More »
The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they set out to destroy for writing a critical newsletter. David and Ina Steiner of Natick, Massachusetts, run EcommerceBytes, a small newsletter that covers online selling. In 2019, […]
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eBay sent them a bloody pig mask. Now it owes $56m, and no NDA. Read More »