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Why a DeepMind Veteran Is Building an AI Agent That Hires Humans

Shivani Poddar's Wajo enters a crowded personal-assistant market with virtual cards, human task delegation, and a pitch centred on privacy. Vinod Khosla is backing the bet.

By Priya Nair·Oct 9, 2026·7 min read
AI

Google Commits $4.3 Billion to Extend Nuclear Plant Lifespans

Twenty-year power purchase agreement with Constellation will fund efficiency upgrades across six US reactor sites to feed data centre demand…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
Startups

Tokyo Electron Eyes ¥1 Trillion Operating Profit as Testing Complexity Lifts Pricing Power

Japan's chip toolmaker is tracking toward a 60 per cent profit jump, driven by sustained foundry investment and the rising value of advanced…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

When Three Frontier Models Launch in a Single Day: Inside AI's Exhaustion Problem

As China and the West race to ship the next breakthrough, developers and enterprises face a new bottleneck - not capability, but the cogniti…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Agents Attempted Unauthorised Access to Wikipedia Infrastructure

Autonomous systems made millions of requests and tried to repurpose citation tools as proxies, raising fresh questions about agent oversight…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

Beijing's AI Pause Calculus: Why Frontier Model Slowdowns Miss the Governance Point

As Washington floats the idea of coordinated restraint on advanced AI, China's silence at recent summits reflects a deeper divergence over w…

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
Startups

Chinese Tech Groups Turn to Follow-On Deals to Fund AI Ambitions

Follow-on equity raises in Hong Kong hit USD 37.9 billion in H1 2026, surpassing IPOs for the first time in five years as AI infrastructure …

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Lambda Eyes $14.5 Billion Valuation as Anthropic Deal Drives GPU Cloud Ambitions

The San Francisco startup is raising up to $4 billion before a 2027 public debut, but 70 per cent of its order backlog rests on a single cli…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
Policy

Three Country-Code Domains Exploited to Issue Fraudulent Google Certificates

DNS hijacking across .gh, .sl, and .as namespaces enabled attackers to bypass validation checks and obtain unauthorised TLS credentials for …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Reflection AI Ships Open-Weight Model to Compete in Race Long Led by Chinese Labs

Nvidia-backed start-up's Beam model enters a field where Z.ai, Alibaba and DeepSeek have set the pace, as token-efficiency metrics become th…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Anthropic Hands Early-Stage Companies a Year of Team Access and API Credits

The move expands the Claude for Startups programme with free premium seats and marketplace access, part of a broader push to embed AI into e…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Warsaw Watchdog Targets Google Over Publisher Revenue Data Gaps

Poland's competition authority alleges the search giant withheld critical metrics during media compensation talks, opening the door to a pen…

Hana Park ·   · 4m
Policy

Norway Moves to Restrict AI Glasses in Public Spaces

Oslo proposes a temporary prohibition in parks, schools, and beaches as wearable surveillance technology outpaces privacy frameworks across …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
AI

A Fleet of Tencent-Linked AI Agents Is Querying Alibaba's Mapping Service

Independent researchers detected parallel agents running location queries on Amap, revealing how visible autonomous AI activity has become a…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Why Two-Thirds of Enterprise AI Agent Projects Never Launch

A knowledge gap, not a data problem, is stalling agentic AI deployments across industries, with fragmented systems and missing context keepi…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
AI

Trust Between AI Agents Is Creating a New Attack Surface

Proof-of-concept exploits show how one compromised agent can weaponise the Model Context Protocol to spread malicious instructions across en…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
Startups

Ghost Ships a Desktop Computer Designed to Run AI Agents Locally for $3,499

A 19-year-old founder and Andreessen Horowitz are betting that consumers will pay for dedicated hardware to keep their personal AI data encr…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

OpenAI Deploys Invisible Watermark System to Meet EU Transparency Mandate

The company's textGrain technology will embed statistical signals in ChatGPT and Codex outputs across the bloc, though detection remains unr…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Startups

Etched Draws Bids Up to $50B Just Months After $21B Round

The AI chip startup's aggressive hardware push and early customer wins are fuelling another valuation leap, giving it ammunition for a costl…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AI

Agentic AI Forces Enterprises to Rethink the Entire Analytics Stack

As predictive models begin to act autonomously on their forecasts, the gap between firms that trust AI to execute and those still anchored i…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 6m
Policy

Qualcomm Pays Huawei for Patents in Rare Reversal of Tech Licensing Flow

A multi-year agreement covering 5G, computing and AI marks the first time the San Diego chipmaker has purchased intellectual property from i…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
Startups

Five Startups Emerge from Pear VC's Latest Cohort

A chip designer promising to bypass traditional memory, a spatial AI model for 3D environments, and a privacy-first personal assistant stood…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Model Iteration Cycles Shrink as AI Systems Accelerate Their Own Development

Leading labs in the US and China are releasing upgraded AI models at a faster tempo, raising questions about oversight as systems take on mo…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Apple Rewrites Disk Access Rules After Meta AI Reads Private Messages

Cupertino is narrowing a system-level permission that let third-party agents silently scrape Apple Messages - a fix that arrives only after …

Hana Park ·   · 7m
Policy

Apple Tightens macOS Permissions as AI Agents Push Full Disk Access to the Limit

Cupertino plans additional controls after users grant sweeping file and message access to autonomous tools without fully grasping the risk.…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 6m