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UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (www.ft.com)
26 days ago

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable” (x.com)
26 days ago AI programming

An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI YouTube Algorithm

Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago IBM Cisco

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (www.anthropic.com)
26 days ago Interview

As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago China AI chatbot

Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute (www.citadelsecurities.com)
26 days ago AI

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Nvidia

As studios like Arc Raiders maker Embark embrace AI for non-essential game elements, gamers worry that AI squeezes the art out of games, amid industry job cuts (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago AI

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses concerns of a “SaaS-pocalypse”, saying companies like Anthropic use “a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents” (www.ft.com)
26 days ago SaaS Salesforce

Revolut says 58% of reported job scams globally came from Telegram in 2025, dwarfing other platforms for these cases, based on an analysis of 10B+ transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago

Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.8B, its third consecutive quarter of revenue decline, and net profit down 66% YoY to ~$259M, below ~$374M est. (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago 4Q

OpenAI says ChatGPT refused to assist a user associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China Japan

Cloudflare Experiment Ports Most of Next.js API in 'One Week' With AI (tech.slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI

Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups (www.ft.com)
26 days ago AI

London-based Dwelly, which aims to roll up independent UK real estate agencies and modernize their operations using AI, raised £32M in equity and £37M in debt (fortune.com)
26 days ago AI Equity London

London-based digital bank Allica, which caters to over 30K SMBs across the UK, raised a $155M Series D from Ventura Capital and others at a $1.2B valuation (sifted.eu)
26 days ago London

Sources: Apple is in talks with Visa, Mastercard, and Indian banks ICICI, HDFC, and Axis as it plans to launch Apple Pay in India around mid-2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago India Apple Apple Pay

A look at VW's robotaxi unit MOIA, which has 100 test vehicles across Germany, Norway, and the US, and plans to launch its robotaxis this year in LA with Uber (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Germany Uber Norway

Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing (slashdot.org)
26 days ago Uber AI

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (sources.news)
26 days ago AI Robot

Tech companies are increasingly turning to GPU-backed debt, a model pioneered by CoreWeave, using SPVs to shift debt off their balance sheets (www.ft.com)
26 days ago

Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Amazon IPO

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
26 days ago India Equity

A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens (www.theregister.com)
26 days ago AI

Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release (www.wired.com)
26 days ago

Nvidia says the US government granted it a license to ship a small number of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but it's unclear if Beijing will allow any imports (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China Nvidia

AI Can Find Hundreds of Software Bugs -- Fixing Them Is Another Story (it.slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI

A look at how both small and large companies, including Meta, are tracking and enforcing employees' AI usage and considering it during performance reviews (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago AI

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