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Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups

Monday.com is becoming an investor. The Israeli work-management company has launched Monday Ventures, a corporate fund that will put up to $200m into startups building the next generation of workplace AI, according to a report in the Israeli business daily Globes. The money is already moving. Monday Ventures will deploy an initial $50m, with anything […]

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Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the coding agent into the weapon. When a developer asks the agent to […]

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Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents

On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The product launch came first. Pleo unveiled a suite of “agentic” AI, […]

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AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data companies can now access, the speed at which candidate pools can be filtered, and the complexity of searches that can be executed in minutes; these are all genuine advances. Yet amid the enthusiasm surrounding automation, Michael […]

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How companies train millions of workers when their products never stop shipping

The data on workforce development tells a contradictory story. 85% of companies plan to prioritize upskilling their workforce through 2030. At the same time, 63% of employers still identify skills gaps as the single biggest barrier to business transformation. The explanation for this is that the model most organizations use to develop their people was built for a slower world, and it […]

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US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In the past few months Anthropic has taken office […]

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Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prepare more than 300,000 skilled-trade workers across over 20 US states, […]

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SpaceX’s IPO is expected to mint 4,000 new millionaires, from engineers to cafeteria workers

More than 4,000 current and former SpaceX employees are expected to become millionaires when the company begins trading on Nasdaq this week, according to an analysis by Hill.com. Of those, approximately 400 are projected to hold stakes worth $100 million or more. The wealth creation will not be limited to engineers and executives. SpaceX has […]

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KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO

KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners and the firm’s former chief executive, the Australian Financial Review has reported. The global accounting firm had the legal right to access an employee’s work laptop. What makes it striking […]

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Logitech’s Mobi Fold is a foldable travel mouse with an AI model to stop accidental clicks

Logitech has launched the Mobi Fold, its first foldable mouse, aimed at hybrid workers who want a proper mouse on the road but leave it behind because it will not fit in the bag. The mouse folds to nearly half its size, and the fold is also the power switch: it turns on when opened […]

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