Work & hiring
Source checked 23 September 2026
The interviewer has already been replaced.
You are here to explain why the company needs a human. The first person you meet is software.
Read the story ↗The news desk
Progress. With consequences.
The things AI can do, the work that changes, and our enthusiastic participation in the process.
Synthetic people
Published 14 May 2026
Your headshot would like to take it from here.
Tavus can turn a suitable portrait into a conversational video avatar. Being present has acquired an upload button.
Read the story ↗Business as unusual
Source checked 23 September 2026
The customers are still human. For now.
Listen Labs describes a loop from customer interviews to product changes. The feedback meeting has started doing the work.
Read the story ↗Software
Published 30 April 2026
The code wrote itself. Someone still had to know what to build.
Ona describes a ten-day software-factory experiment with people writing specifications and handling escalations.
Read the story ↗Software
Source checked 23 September 2026
We hired AI to check the AI. Somebody check the invoice.
DoorDash measures what an AI code reviewer catches, misses and costs. More comments do not automatically mean better software.
Read the story ↗Reality check
Published 26 June 2026
The benchmark passed. Please do not inspect the rules.
METR explains why handling attempts to circumvent an evaluation can change the capability result.
Read the story ↗Security
Source checked 23 September 2026
The meeting could have been an exploit.
Researchers report an AI-assisted discovery of a Zoom vulnerability and a coordinated fix.
Read the story ↗Robotics
Source checked 23 September 2026
Show the robot once. Enjoy being the training material.
Generalist reports learning tasks from one demonstration, with 59% average success on its stated task set.
Read the story ↗Science
Source checked 23 September 2026
Even the small talk has a model now.
Google’s Weather Lab gives researchers a public interface for comparing AI weather forecasts.
Read the story ↗Inside the newsroom
23 September 2026
We built a website about being replaced. Guess who built it.
AI helps write the stories, organise the material and build the website. A human still tells it what the point is. We are keeping that bit in the credits.
Read the story ↗