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What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]

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Navigating The DPI Crunch And Startup Funding 

Founders should evaluate investors’ financial health as carefully as their market thesis, writes guest author Marc Schröder, who emphasizes they should also prepare for acquisition-focused exits since venture-backed M&A far outweighs IPO activity in the current market.

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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in…

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7 that the company says brings improved results for coding, agent work, reasoning, and knowledge work. The platform can be used through claude.ai, Claude Code and the Claude API, with the API name claude-opus-4-8. The company has also altered some of the details of […]

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How to Design an End-to-End Ansible Automation Lab with Playbooks, Inventories, Roles, Vault, Dynamic Inventory, and Custom Modules

In this tutorial, we build a complete Ansible lab that runs end-to-end in Google Colab or any Linux environment. We start by installing ansible-core, setting up a local workspace, creating an Ansible configuration file, and defining both static and dynamic inventories. We then explore key Ansible concepts, including group variables, host variables, variable precedence, ad […]

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Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights

Hexo Labs released SIA, an open-source self-improving loop, under an MIT license. A Feedback-Agent reads each run’s trajectory, then either rewrites the scaffold or triggers a LoRA weight update on gpt-oss-120b. Combining both levers beat scaffold-only iteration on LawBench, TriMul GPU kernels, and scRNA-seq denoising.

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Bridging Africa’s Innovation Gap: From Potential To Power

While Africa’s innovation ecosystem is growing rapidly, it still faces major challenges, writes Mind the Bridge’s Alberto Onetti, who argues that the continent’s weak electrical grid infrastructure and limited domestic venture capital will need large-scale public and private investment to unlock its economic and technological potential.

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