insights

Auto Added by WPeMatico

Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward

Prague, late May. GLOBSEC Forum 2026, now in its 21st year, welcomed over 2,000 participants, 270 speakers, and a dense programme of conversations about AI, cybersecurity and digital trust. European technology company Nebi joined the forum as an official Content Partner, and over three days, we had the chance to listen, engage, and reflect on […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward Read More »

Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search

Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even growing. The disconnect comes from a shift that isn’t immediately visible in dashboards. Buyers are forming […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search Read More »

Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next

Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next Read More »

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has been a fixture of computer science folklore since at least the 1960s. For most of that time, it remained comfortably theoretical. Now someone […]

This story continues at The Next Web

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself Read More »

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]

This story continues at The Next Web

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Read More »

Nadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t.

  Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become “the next IBM” while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk’s lead attorney, reveals the strategic anxiety that drove the largest corporate investment in artificial intelligence history. Microsoft did […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Nadella feared Microsoft would become ‘the next IBM.’ The trial reveals how much he paid to make sure it didn’t. Read More »

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […]

This story continues at The Next Web

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many. Read More »

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

  Cloudflare beat Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates on Wednesday, announced it would cut 1,100 employees because artificial intelligence agents now do their work, and watched its stock fall 24 per cent on Thursday. The sequence is becoming the template for the technology industry in 2026: record revenue, record layoffs, record doubt about what […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day Read More »

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some facilities, the attackers could have altered the operational parameters of equipment that determines what comes out of the tap. The attack vector, in every case, was unremarkable: weak passwords and […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test. Read More »

will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]

This story continues at The Next Web

will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people. Read More »

Shopping Cart