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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport, has emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to tackle a growing problem: even as businesses rush to adopt AI, integrating it with existing enterprise software remains so difficult that companies are hiring armies of specialist “forward-deployed engineers” just to get systems working.…
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AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
AI-powered voice ordering is rapidly spreading through US fast-food drive-thrus, moving from a novelty that surprised customers to a mainstream feature at major chains. Taco Bell has rolled out the technology at 890 drive-thru lanes (over 10% of its US locations), Dairy Queen is deploying it across 25 states with plans to expand chain-wide, and…
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This lawyer believes in second chances. Now AI is providing a boost
Noella Sudbury, a former public defender in Utah, has founded Rasa Legal, a nonprofit that uses artificial intelligence to help people with criminal records get them expunged, opening the door to better job prospects. The initiative targets what is described as the “second chance expungement gap”: an estimated 20 million Americans are legally eligible to…
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“There was a guy shooting at us from his balcony. It turned out he’d been sniffing glue.” The story of the UK’s only top-10 nu metal hit
In February 2002, the Suffolk rock band A released the single “Nothing”, which unexpectedly became the only British song widely regarded as a genuine Top 10 nu metal hit, despite the band never identifying with the genre themselves. Frontman Jason Perry has spoken about the track’s legacy, noting the irony that a band with roots…
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Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it
Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, is proving surprisingly effective at “digital archaeology” – reverse-engineering obsolete computer systems – according to talks given at the UK’s National Museum of Computing (TNMoC) at Bletchley Park. The museum, known for restoring and documenting historic machines from Colossus to 1970s mainframes, has recently hosted presenters describing how the…
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Football Weekly’s summer mailbag: AI, how transfer gossip works and more – part two
This Guardian Football Weekly podcast episode is a summer mailbag special, in which host Max Rushden and a panel of regular contributors answer listener-submitted questions on a range of football-adjacent topics. It forms the second part of the mailbag series, continuing discussions started in an earlier episode, and offers a lighter, listener-driven format compared to…
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AI is ‘both the weapon and the target’ in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike’s latest annual Threat Hunting Report finds that artificial intelligence has become both a weapon and a target in cyberattacks, with AI-enabled adversary activity surging 89 percent in 2025. The firm’s counter adversary chief Adam Meyers said AI is now a high-value attack surface being exploited by an increasing number of state-backed and financially motivated…
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Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: ‘no such service was ever brought to life’
A company that had promoted a service to scan and destroy books for use as AI training data has removed references to it from its website. It now says the service was never launched, following criticism over the prospect of physical books being destroyed to support AI data collection. The company’s earlier claims suggested that…
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These 3 Songs by The Byrds Should Have Been Bigger Hits at Radio
This piece from American Songwriter looks back at The Byrds, the influential 1960s folk-rock band, and highlights three of their singles that the writer argues deserved to be bigger radio hits than they were. The retrospective serves as an appreciation of the group’s often-overlooked catalogue beyond their well-known chart-toppers, noting how each song underperformed relative…