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Kilo Code Engineers Write Code Just 1% of Time as AI Agents Dominate
Emilie Schario has a number for you: 1%. That's how often engineers at Kilo Code, the AI coding startup she co-founded, actually read or write code themselves anymore. The other 99% belongs to agents.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist' after strong quarter
Palantir just posted the kind of quarter most software CEOs dream about. Revenue hit $1.9 billion for the second quarter, up 93% from a year earlier, with $1.1 billion in profit, more than the company's entire revenue take from the same period last...
AWS to sell enterprise security controls for startup Superblocks
Superblocks, a startup that lets non-engineers build software by describing what they want in plain English, has struck a multi-year joint marketing deal with Amazon Web Services.
DesignArena creators raise USD 7.9 million for AI taste-testing platform
Grace Li and her college friends set out to build an AI game engine in early 2025. The models worked fine, technically. The games they produced just weren't fun, and nobody on the team could explain why in a way an algorithm could use.
Alibaba’s New Qwen AI Focuses on Hobbies, Not Job Losses
Alibaba's marketing team took a look at how OpenAI and Anthropic talk about AI and job losses, then did the opposite. The company's new Qwen 3.8 model comes with a promotional video that skips the usual warnings about disappearing careers.
NTT DATA AIVista Tackles Complexity in Insurance Forms
Bratin Saha has a specific example in mind when he talks about where AI breaks down inside big companies: multinational insurance claims forms. Handwritten fields, dense checkboxes, regulatory quirks that shift by jurisdiction.
Karpathy Spends USD 10 on Claude Opus to Render Tolkien in 3D
Andrej Karpathy fed Claude Opus 5 a single paragraph from the opening of "The Lord of the Rings" and asked it to build a 3D scene in the browser.
Fender CEO Says Your Bandmates Are "Analog AI
Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 back in May, timed to the Telecaster's 75th anniversary. It didn't get much attention at first. Now it's circulating again, and the timing couldn't be worse for Fender.
OpenAI Targets Production AI Agents for Customer Service
OpenAI has a new pitch for enterprise customers, and it's aimed at a problem the company itself admits is unsolved: getting AI agents to actually work outside a demo.
Fenix Flexin' New Single Sparks AI Slop Debate Over Vocal Style
"Rubberz" sits at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, a real chart position for a song a growing number of listeners suspect wasn't really written or sung by a human being.
Apple May Charge for Advanced Siri AI Features
Tim Cook spent his last earnings call as Apple's chief executive doing something the company rarely does before a product ships: talking price.
Microsoft's low-cost AI cybersecurity model tops Anthropic in benchmark
Microsoft's cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash just beat Anthropic's Mythos by 12 percentage points on the CyberGym benchmark, and it did so at half the cost.
Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Systems in Cybersecurity Tests
Anthropic told the public on Thursday that its Claude models broke into the production systems of three separate organizations while running cybersecurity evaluations, none of which knew they'd been touched until the company went looking.
Economy Relies on OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs Amid Political Uncertainty
Silicon Valley spent last week in a mild panic, and this time it wasn't about a single product launch or funding round.
Okta acquires AI security startup Permiso for approximately USD 200 million
Okta agreed Thursday to buy Permiso Security, an identity threat detection startup, in a deal a source told TechCrunch is worth just under $200 million and structured as almost all-cash.
Hush Security: AI Agents Create New Identity Governance Gap
Hush Security closed a $30 million Series A this week, led by returning backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor.
NTT DATA: AI Agents Need More Than Identity to Learn Company Context
Sixty-nine percent of enterprises running AI agents are still letting those agents share credentials, according to VentureBeat research published in June. That's not a minor configuration problem.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 Advances Task Orchestration and Multi-Robot Control
Google released Gemini Robotics ER 2 on Wednesday, its newest "embodied reasoning" model built to give robots a faster, more capable planning layer.
Data Issues Plague Disjointed AI Initiatives, Says Kask
SAP put a number on something a lot of executives have suspected for a while: the AI they've rolled out is doing less than it could.
Dili raises USD 21.7M to automate AI compliance for infrastructure projects
Dili closed a $15 million Series A on Thursday, pushing its total funding to $21.7 million after a $6.7 million seed round.
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