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AI Layoff Gamble Backfires as 90% of Executives Report No Productivity Gains

Atlanta Fed research finds nearly 90% of executives see no AI productivity gain, while 121,401 US job cuts cite AI and Meta scales back automation.

MercadoLibre Won’t Give Its Inventory to Outside AI Agents

95,000+ executives read Business Engineer for the AI strategy frameworks cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. A note on sourcing. Figures and quotations are from the paper by Hayler, Chirra et al. posted to arXiv on 4 November 2026 (2611.06409). We did not rerun the experiments. The gap and point changes are our arithmetic from […]

5 of my favorite Linux distros for AI – and why

Meta has completed the acquisition of Conductor, an artificial intelligence coding startup that enables software engineers to manage multiple AI-based coding agents simultaneously.

Scotland beach may need yearlong sewage survey as swimmers are told to stay out

Swimmers have been warned to stay out of Scotland's Kinghorn Beach after E. coli was found, as sewage contamination puts bathing water status at risk.

World of Warcraft addon creator makes code private as AI rivals copy years of work

"Sometimes the code is so similar the complaint results in a takedown."

As AI Agents Go Rogue, Here Are 5 Tips to Protect Your Data and Your Money

95,000+ executives read Business Engineer for the AI strategy frameworks cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. A note on sourcing. Every product description is from the vendor’s own documentation, read on November 8, 2026; documentation changes over time. The classification and counts are ours. We did not test the products. This piece is not investment […]

America's Delaware state's proposal to run AI Agents run companies and not human CEOs, to be investigated

Delaware state's proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents is facing protest. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is investigating the State of Delaware’s efforts to establish a new form of corporate entity known as an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC).

Banks ban AI from accounts over fears of rogue agents

Banks ban AI from accounts over fears of rogue agents

Britain's biggest banks have banned AI agents from accessing customer accounts over fears that personal finance bots will go rogue. HSBC, Nationwide, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds have all moved to block AI agents, including in some cases specific bans on making transactions on a customer's behalf without their direct involvement.

A human in the loop can’t be your whole AI security plan

AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and the uptake of Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising the way humans interact and leverage this technology. GenAI is