Google strikes $12bn AI chip deal with Marvell
Tech group agrees expanded partnership with US chipmaker that includes option to buy shares
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When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent
In 2021, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, deployed AI agents from a startup called Pactum to negotiate freight lane contracts with its carrier suppliers. The objective was for AI agents to handle negotiations autonomously rather than merely support human procurement staff. Operating entirely autonomously, the system manages the end-to-end agreement process, from reaching
Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its platforms. The
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Which Investors Have Backed The Most 2026 Unicorns?
The most active investors in the 2026 cohort of newly minted unicorns include some of the most well-established names in venture capital. Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator top the list for investments in the companies minted so far this year. On the Crunchbase Unicorn Board, we track active investors over all time. Here,
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When Guardrails Go Wrong
The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what happens when guardrails go astray. My skill helps me to find articles and blog posts that go into O’Reilly Radar’s monthly Trends to Watch. It reads roughly a dozen well-known sites like
Is AI really responsible for recent job cuts?
More companies are linking lay-offs to workplace efficiencies but evidence is patchy
The World Inside a Single Packet: How NSX Gateway Firewall Turns Traffic into a Policy Decision
TL;DR A network packet contains a limited set of facts, such as addresses, ports, protocol information, flags, and payload data. The security decision surrounding that packet can be far larger. NSX Gateway Firewall and VMware vDefend can combine packet facts with connection state, routing, workload groups, identity context, Layer 7 application identification, TLS policy, IDS/IPS
The AI Productivity Measurement Trap: Why Token Counts, Copilot Usage, and Code Volume Can Mislead the Board
TL;DR AI adoption data is not the same as productivity evidence. Licenses assigned, active Copilot users, prompts submitted, tokens consumed, suggestions accepted, and lines of code generated can show that a tool is available and being used. They do not prove that the organization improved revenue, customer experience, end-to-end cycle time, quality, operating margin, or
Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna
Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.
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China eases limits on Nvidia H200 chips as AI race escalates
Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals
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