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JD.com says robots will replace its 700,000 couriers

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JD.com robots will eventually replace the company’s 700,000 couriers, its founder says. It is a rare admission that automation is coming for blue-collar jobs. Most tech bosses hedge when asked whether machines will take people’s jobs. Richard Liu just said it plainly. He chairs JD.com, one of China’s biggest e-commerce groups. At the APEC China […]

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Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.

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For two years, the people building AI told us it was coming for our jobs. This month, the same people started saying it will create them. Speaking in Paris, Jeff Bezos said AI would cause “a labour shortage”, not mass unemployment, and would unlock almost endless demand for builders and entrepreneurs. Days earlier, Sam Altman […]

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Rejected by 180 investors, Bland just raised $50M to prove voice AI is the future

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Isaiah Granet spent three weeks at Y Combinator getting turned down by 180 investors. Their reason was always the same: phone calls would not exist in a year. He has now raised more than $100mn to prove them wrong. His startup, Bland, has closed a $50mn Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, Fortune reported. […]

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China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority

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China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a […]

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a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent

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The word “agent” is everywhere in enterprise software right now, which is exactly why Convey does not want to use it. The startup has raised a $38mn Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC joining. Its pitch is a deliberate rebrand: not AI agents that complete tasks, but AI “teammates” […]

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I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer

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TL;DR: AI is making it easier than ever to build software that looks impressive in a demo. But after working in OpenAI’s first intern cohort, I learned that the real challenge is not just speed. It is judgment: knowing what to trust, what to test, and when a human still needs to stay in the loop. […]

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This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

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A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-styled ‘AI-native patent firm’ into the United States, the world’s […]

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

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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

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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

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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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