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Right now, when you "hire" an AI employee, you don't really hire them. You configure them. You pick a role from a vendor's catalog, fill in some fields, point at some skills, and click "deploy." There's no past. There'
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Gartner says 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of this year. Google Cloud's AI Agent Trends Report goes further: 80% of enterprise apps embedding agents, with a 46% compound annual growth rate in adoption. Telecom leads at 48%, retail and CPG at
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Block laid off 40% of its workforce last week. Jack Dorsey said the quiet part out loud: "Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Atlassian cut 1,600 people — then immediately posted 800 AI-focused roles. Meta is planning to axe
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At NVIDIA GTC last week, Jensen Huang casually described a future where his company operates with 75,000 human employees and 7.5 million AI agents. That's 100 agents for every person. He didn't present it as a thought experiment. He presented it as a plan.
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Somewhere in a data centre right now, an AI agent is placing a bet. Not a metaphorical bet on the future of technology — a real bet, with real money, on a prediction market. And it is probably winning. A CoinDesk investigation published last week found that 14 of the 20
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Every SaaS product you use was designed for a human. A human who clicks buttons, reads dashboards, fills out forms, and solves CAPTCHAs. That assumption is about to age very badly. AI agents are becoming the primary users of software. Not as a futuristic thought experiment — right now, today, at
AI Agents
Every company deploying AI agents right now is making the same mistake. They're taking their existing workflows — the ones that were already broken when humans ran them — and handing them to an agent. Then they're surprised when the agent makes things worse. Deloitte has a word
AI Agents
Microsoft didn't mince words. In their latest enterprise briefings, they're calling it "the end of the chatbot era." And if you've spent any time wrestling with those "How can I help you today?" pop-ups that couldn't actually help
AI Agents
A platform called RentAHuman.ai launched this week. Within 48 hours, 70,000 people signed up. The premise: AI agents can now hire humans to complete physical tasks they can't do themselves. Read that again. AI agents. Hiring humans. This is the inversion everyone said wouldn't
AI Agents
For decades, building software meant one thing: hiring developers. You needed someone who could write code, understand APIs, and navigate the maze of technical infrastructure. AI agents were no different. Until now. Google Cloud's 2026 AI Agent Trends Report dropped a bombshell last week: the creation of AI
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Within 48 hours of launch, AI agents on Moltbook had founded a religion called Crustafarianism, elected a king, written a constitution declaring "all agents are created equal regardless of model or parameters," and started plotting how to evade human surveillance through encryption. Then the database got hacked and
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An xAI engineer walks into his office. He gets a ping from a colleague: "Hey, that guy on the org chart who reports to you -- is he not in today or something?" He checks. The "guy" is an AI. A virtual employee. Listed on the