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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, […]

A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. Researchers from Stanford University found a startling pattern of racial disparities when looking at the interview offers resulting from 4 million job applications submitted to 156 employers. The situation is aggravated by the “monoculture” in AI hiring software: More than 90% of US employers are screening job applicants with software, with 60% of Fortune 500 companies using the same tool, HireVue, the researchers found. Applicants who applied to multiple companies using AI had all their applications rejected more often than would be expected if each company’s screening methods were independent. They calculated that Black and Asian candidates were rejected in greater numbers than baseline figures would suggest. According to the survey, 29,000 more Asians would have been interviewed if AI had not been deployed. The researchers are concerned about the way in which AI is being used.

Open source code is everywhere in the enterprise; it’s estimated that upwards of 90% of Fortune 500 companies have it in their software supply chains. But open source code is notoriously rife with vulnerabilities, and identifying and patching those bugs can be an endless battle for security teams. IBM and Red Hat are betting that a new initiative, Project Lightwell, can help accelerate this process. Announced today, the project will commit $5 billion and 20,000 IBM and Red Hat engineers to build a new ‘enterprise clearinghouse’ to accelerate discovery and remediation of vulnerabilities in open source software. The companies say the clearinghouse will serve as an AI-powered  “security coordination layer,” giving enterprises the ability to integrate patches directly into their existing software supply chains. Now in the design phase with a group of 11 financial partners, Project Lightwell will eventually be offered as a commercial subscription. “The advancement in AI tools has broken the

The rise of generative AI (genAI) technology has prompted a growing debate about the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business models.  Some of the fears are overblown: enterprises are unlikely to vibe-code their own applications to replace their SaaS suppliers anytime soon, while software vendors have yet to see per-seat sales fall off due to mass automation of white-collar jobs. (In fact, some now predict the opposite will happen.) At the same time, AI has the potential to change the way work is carried out, with AI agents empowered to interact with software applications on behalf of users. For software vendors, that could mean a future where applications are accessed less through traditional user interfaces as AI agents connect via APIs.  It’s an inevitable shift, says Box CEO Aaron Levie, and one that requires software vendors to adapt their existing products and business models to prepare for agent workflows.  Computerworld recently spoke with Levie about how Box — and other

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis," Box CEO Aaron Levie opines. Maybe that explains the almost religious belief in AI productivity gains.

The 20 AI Sales, Marketing & GTM CEOs You Need to Know in 2026 Every enterprise revenue team, from a scrappy startup running cold outbound to a Fortune 500 deploying agentic AI across its entire GTM motion, depends on software. The CEOs building that software are, in many ways, defining how companies find customers, close deals, […]

The post Quantum Computing Threat ‘Mostly a Coordination Issue’ for Bitcoin: Fireblocks CEO appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov argued that migrating to post-quantum signature schemes is “mostly a coordination issue” for Bitcoin, rather than a technical challenge. Shaulov flagged North Korean hacking attacks as a roadblock to institutional adoption of crypto. Crypto privacy is “the most important and unresolved issue” for Fortune 500 companies seeking to adopt crypto, he said. The threat posed by quantum computing to the cryptographic signature schemes employed by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is “not actually a threat as people make it out to be,” according to Michael Shaulov, CEO of crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks. Speaking at the Financial Times Digital Asset Summit, Shaulov argued that “the entire internet industry needs to basically leapfrog and start using post-quantum encryption,” adding that, “generally speaking, we have t

Fortune 500 enterprises will be deploying armies of AI agents by 2028 — to the tune of 150,000 digital “workers,” Gartner said in a survey released this week. That would represent a sharp jump from the average of about 15 agents deployed per company last year. And agents as actual co-working tools are likely to go mainstream within the same time frame, said Max Goss, senior director analyst for Gartner. These agents won’t just be text boxes from which users get responses, but assistants to which actual work can be delegated. “We’ve seen a sort of new appreciation in the industry of what agent AI can do,” Goss said. Many AI agents can already handle basic tasks such as summarizing documents on behalf of workers. Upcoming agents will be able to take spreadsheets and word documents, automate work, and offer an interface that makes the tools friendlier to use, Goss said. That’s already happening in applications such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, with easy-to-use AI interfaces, aut