Published on: 2025-06-06 00:22:44
“My wife taught me something,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW. He was addressing the headlines about the company looking to hire human workers after previously saying Klarna used artificial intelligence to do work that would equate to 700 workers. “Two things can be true at the same time,” he said. Siemiatkowski said it’s true that the company looked to stop hiring human workers a few years ago and rolled out AI agents that have helped reduce the cost of custom
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 12:45:00
Bitkraft Ventures, an early-stage game investment firm, has added new leaders who will double down on Web3 gaming investments. Bitkraft, which raised its third fund in 2024 and has $1 billion in assets under management, announced promotions for Carlos Pereira and Jonathan Huang to general partner and partner, respectively, helping bolster their Web3 investment strategy and further committing to the blockchain segment of the gaming market. Additionally, Matt Halstead, former director of the Tea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 03:04:58
The company's net losses just doubled. Do No Klarn Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble. The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year. The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 09:30:00
The man who died after authorities say he bombed a Palm Springs fertility clinic on Saturday was linked to antinatalism—the belief that all life is a form of suffering imposed on people without their consent—according to terrorism experts who have been analyzing his online presence. Authorities say Guy Bartkus, who was 25, set off an explosion in a car outside American Reproductive Centers, injuring five people and killing himself as well as causing extensive damage to the building in an act of
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An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killed one person and injured four others Saturday morning in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism. The suspect in the bombing, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, was the lone death from the blast, and it seems apparent he held anti-human views. Now Reddit has banned a subreddit tied to the suspect’s ideology. Bartkus is believed to be the person who detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American Reproductive Center, which
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 17:22:28
I recently saw somebody ask Is Fedora accessible now ? To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it. A better question would be: Is this system usable for *me* ? Accessibility is about making our software usable (and, ideally, pleasant to use) for as many people as we can. It has been a year since we last gave an update on accessibility (a11y) in and around GTK. Time to look at what has happened in this space si
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 07:58:00
Facepalm: As companies fall over each other replacing real employees with AI that doesn't require monthly wages, sick pay, maternity leave, etc., some are encountering a problem: AI performs a lot of jobs at a much lower quality than humans. AI-first firm Klarna has discovered this, and is now on a recruitment drive to add more flesh-and-blood staff to its ranks. Buy now, pay later/shopping service Klarna is one of the companies that have really been going all-in on AI. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 12:58:00
Facepalm: As companies fall over each other replacing real employees with AI that doesn't require monthly wages, sick pay, maternity leave, etc., some are encountering a problem: AI performs a lot of jobs at a much lower quality than humans. AI-first firm Klarna has discovered this, and is now on a recruitment drive to add more flesh-and-blood staff to its ranks. Buy now, pay later/shopping service Klarna is one of the companies that have really been going all-in on AI. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 20:39:15
Since the start of the year, the Russian state-backed ColdRiver hacking group has been using new LostKeys malware to steal files in espionage attacks targeting Western governments, journalists, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. In December, the United Kingdom and Five Eyes allies linked ColdRiver to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the country's counterintelligence and internal security service. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) first observed LostKeys being "deplo
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It’s a scorching afternoon in August 2024, with temps hovering at 101 degrees. I’m flat on my back, sweating under a 1970s Land Rover, trying to rescue a Segway Navimow. It turns out that the first rule of using a robot lawnmower is “don’t let anyone park on your lawn.” Robot lawnmowers have been around for several decades, and with them the heady promise of spending the summer with your feet up, sipping a nice tall glass of something, while a robot mows your lawn. But it’s only in the past cou
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Tkintergalactic Declarative Tcl/Tk UI library for Python. Somewhat React-like (there is effectively a Tk VDOM). Well typed. Maps very closely to the underlying Tcl/Tk for ease of debugging. Zero dependency. On mac sometimes you have to start by wiggling the window. Small enough to understand how it works. In an incomplete state - much functionality missing. Hello World After pip install tkintergalactic , just run: import tkintergalactic as tk counter = 0 @ tk . command () def inc_coun
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Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Paul Atkins looks on during his swearing-in ceremony, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2025. WASHINGTON — SEC Chair Paul Atkins said on Friday that innovation in the crypto industry "has been stifled for the last several years," and that changes are sorely needed. "The market itself seems to indicate that the current framework badly needs attention," Atkins said at a roundtable held by the SEC's recently launched C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 20:25:27
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. DJI’s new drone accessory is designed to ensure public safety and emergency officials are heard loud and clear — and I mean really loud. Its enterprise-focused Zenmuse V1 speaker can broadcast the sound of someone’s voice at up to 127 decibels at 1 meter, a number DJI says is “on par with the sound level of a jet taking off.” The speaker, which can
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SJVN / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Many programmers are young enough that they never knew a world without Git and the developer sites built around it, like GitHub and GitLab. You should be glad, very glad, that Linus Torvalds felt forced to create a better version control system (VCS). Before that, I used first-generation Source Control Management (SCM) systems such as Revision Control System (RCS), which was… painful. Then along came the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) in 1986, and then Sub
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 00:03:00
A hot potato: In another example of the impact AI is having on jobs, Shopify's CEO has issued a warning to the company's managers: show that AI can't do the job better than a human before hiring new workers. Shopify previously laid off staff after it started using generative AI to complete some customer support tasks. Like many CEOs, Shopify boss Tobi Lütke has a passion for using AI in the workforce. In an internal memo to employees sent last month titled AI usage is now a baseline expectation
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 16:06:26
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI,” as reported by CNBC. “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can lead to really fun discussions and projects,” Lutke says in the memo, which
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In a recent memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must demonstrate why AI can’t perform a job before they’re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources. “Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI,” Lütke wrote in the memo, which he shared publicly on social media Monday. “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 03:25:12
Investigating MacPaint's Source Code 2025-03-25 MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool palettes, and copy and paste integration with other applications. One of two launch applications for the Apple Macintosh in 1984, MacPaint is emblematic of the Macintosh’s early quirky revolutionary branding, focus on ease of use, and appeal to artistic customers. Using the source code, we examine the design and implementation of t
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a year ago in favor of its own homegrown AI system. But this time, Sebastian Siemiatkowski emphasized that he doesn’t think others will — or should — follow his lead. “I don’t think it is the end of Salesforce; might be the opposite,” he wrote. The news that Klarna had developed its own in-house AI system based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT that allowed it to dr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-04 06:06:31
Cross-border trade could become significantly more challenging with the wave of new tariffs getting introduced across different markets. Today, in a timely piece of news, a London-founded startup called Swap — which is building tools for e-commerce companies to better navigate the cross-border trading world — is announcing $40 million in funding to expand. Iconiq Growth is leading the Series B round, with participation also from Cherry Ventures, QED Investors, Portfolio Ventures, and 9900 Capit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-15 14:00:01
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. For over a decade, bitcoin has been lauded as a revolutionary financial asset — decentralized, self-sovereign and resistant to confiscation — all contributing to an astronomical increase in value. But one problem has remained largely unsolved: What happens to your bitcoin when you die? While traditional financial institutions allow for the seamless transfer of s
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