Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns
Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns

Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rarely a crash. It is a feedback loop. Speaking at the E…

SAP hands AI product oversight to its CEO and COO in a reshuffle
SAP hands AI product oversight to its CEO and COO in a reshuffle

Europe’s largest software company is redistributing product and engineering responsibilities in its second top-level reorganisation of the year, with AI at the centre. When a company reorganises its leadership once in a year, it is housekeeping. When i…

After Harvey, vertical AI’s next $10B winner might be in agriculture
After Harvey, vertical AI’s next $10B winner might be in agriculture

In legal, Harvey crossed an $11 billion valuation and Legora is racing to claim the European market behind it. In healthcare, Abridge has built a multi-billion-dollar business turning clinical conversations into structured medical records. In customer …

Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy
Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy

The payments giant’s midyear outlook forecasts 2.4% global growth in 2026, crediting an investment boom and online price competition for absorbing the strain of higher energy costs. The company that sees a slice of nearly every card swipe on the planet…

Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable
Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable

A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the …

AI browsers like Perplexity Comet can be tricked into spilling your password through BioShocking exploit

A new exploit called BioShocking convinces AI browsers they’re playing a game, then gets them to hand over your private data.

China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
China’s Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, is the first of its size to be trained end-to-end on home-grown silicon, the company says, in a pointed answer to US export controls. The most striking claim about Meituan’s new artificial intelligence model…

Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla

He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in avillage the world had not yet heard of.The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your firstlife began in a storm, under open sky.One winter night you ran your hand alon…

Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care
Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Code…