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The Download: how AI could improve construction site safety, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How generative AI could help make construction sites safer More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry for fatal slips, trips, […]

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How generative AI could help make construction sites safer

Last winter, during the construction of an affordable housing project on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a 32-year-old worker named Jose Luis Collaguazo Crespo slipped off a ladder on the second floor and plunged to his death in the basement. He was one of more than 1,000 construction workers who die on the job each year in the US, making

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Capital One builds agentic AI modeled after its own org chart to supercharge auto sales

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems.  At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP

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Capital One builds agentic AI to electrify auto sales

Like intelligent insights in your box? Sign up for our regular ezines to get only what matters to venture AI, information, and security leaders. Subscribe Then Inspiration can come from different places, yet for architecting and designing agentic techniques.   At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic program for its automobile

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Enterprise giants Atlassian, Intuit, and AWS are planning for a world where agents call the APIs

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more >>See all our Transform 2025 coverage here<< This dawning age of agentic AI requires a total rethink on how we build software. Current enterprise APIs were built for human use; the APIs

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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person

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Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced today that it will now default to blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts. Cloudflare will also give clients the ability to manually allow or ban these AI bots on a case-by-case basis, and it will introduce a so-called “pay-per-crawl” service that clients can use to receive compensation

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People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics

Peter sat alone in his bedroom as the first waves of euphoria coursed through his body like an electrical current. He was in darkness, save for the soft blue light of the screen glowing from his lap. Then he started to feel pangs of panic. He picked up his phone and typed a message to

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What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?

Last week, the technology companies Anthropic and Meta each won landmark victories in two separate court cases that examined whether or not the firms had violated copyright when they trained their large language models on copyrighted books without permission. The rulings are the first we’ve seen to come out of copyright cases of this kind.

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