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Uber has a new approach to using AI: “Agentic pods.”Praveen Neppalli Naga, the ride-hailing company’s tech chief, said in an X post on Tuesday that Uber embedded 30 of its “most AI-proficient engineers” with teams across the company, including finance, legal, and human resources.Over two weeks, the engineers worked with…
After years helping Apple bring products from prototype to production, two former executives are betting the next AI boom won’t happen on screens but rather on on factory floors.Simon Lancaster and Sabrina Paseman’s new firm, Omni Ventures, has raised $33 million to write $700,000 to $1 million checks into pre-seed…
Ford staged a quality comeback. The automaker credits part of the turnaround to pairing AI with something more old-school: veteran engineers.Executives at Ford told reporters this week that the company had hired, promoted, or brought back about 350 experienced technical specialists as part of a sweeping effort to fix vehicle-quality…
Software engineers may be paying the price for Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing frenzy.As companies push developers to use AI coding tools in the hopes of driving productivity up, a growing divide is emerging inside some engineering teams, says Deedy Das, a partner at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, where he invests…
Nikesh Arora says AI has changed how he approaches hiring — but not in the ways many workers fear. Loading audio narration… The CEO of Palo Alto Networks — a cybersecurity company with a nearly $200 billion market cap — told The New York Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast that he…
