Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…
Delve did the security compliance on LiteLLM, an AI project hit by malware
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead
Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Convicted spyware chief hints that Greece’s government was behind dozens of phone hacks
The spyware founder’s comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.
The Startup Mistake No One Talks About — Until It Shuts You Down
State-by-state complexity and missed deadlines can quietly derail even the most promising startups without proactive systems in place.
How to Make Change Feel Normal — Instead of Threatening — to Your Team
Inspiration alone isn’t the answer for high performance amid change. Routinizing change may be.
Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police.
First responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them during emergency situations, including in at least two active crime scenes, TechCrunch found.
This Email Strategy Turns One-Time Buyers Into Long-Term Subscribers
From post-purchase flows to community digests, here’s how to build an email lifecycle that keeps subscription health customers engaged long after they buy.
This Billionaire Investment Strategy Just Became Available to Your 401(k)
Private equity, real estate and crypto are coming to retirement accounts. Here is how to decide if they belong in yours.
Google unveils TurboQuant, a lossless AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.