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McKinsey asks graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment process

Blue-chip consultancy’s boss says firm has an AI ‘workforce’ of 20,000 agents operating alongside its 40,000 staffBusiness live – latest updatesMcKinsey is asking graduate applicants to “collaborate” with an artificial intelligence tool as part of its recruitment process, as competence with the technology becomes a requirement in competing for top-level jobs.The blue-chip consultancy is incorporating […]

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Starlark is Basically Python, But Not Really Python, and That’s Fine

Python Foundation Gets $1.5 Mn Investment From Anthropic

Anthropic is planning to invest $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to support security in the Python ecosystem.  According to PSF’s blog post, the investment is set to make “crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI)”, alongside sustaining the foundation’s work supporting the Python language.  “Python powers so much

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The Problem with AI “Artists”

A performance reel. Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook accounts. A separate contact email for enquiries. All staples of an actor’s website. Except these all belong to Tilly Norwood, an AI “actor.” This creation represents one of the newer AI trends, which is AI “artists” that eerily represent real humans (which, according to their creators, is the

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Asian Startup Funding Fell In 2025 But Rose In Q4

Funding to Asia-based startups ticked lower in 2025. Even so, the fourth quarter closed out the annum on an up note, with the highest quarterly investment tally of the year, Crunchbase data shows. In total, investors poured $67.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies across Asia in last year, per Crunchbase data.

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Infosys, NVIDIA Introduce Generative AI Powered Telco Solutions

Infosys Runs 4,600 AI Projects, 500 Agents Across Its Enterprise Clients

Infosys CEO Salil Parekh laid out the most detailed picture of how Infosys is scaling AI inside the company and across its client base, even as the company continues to avoid bifurcating AI revenue. He was speaking during the company’s Q3 earnings call.   At the centre of this push is Infosys Topaz and a new

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Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

Behold, the hyperscale data center!  Massive structures, with thousands of specialized computer chips running in parallel to perform the complex calculations required by advanced AI models. A single facility can cover millions of square feet, built with millions of pounds of steel, aluminum, and concrete; feature hundreds of miles of wiring, connecting some hundreds of

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