How Caterpillar is using AI to augment human intelligence—and optimize its supply chain
Jamie Engstrom has a winning personal motto: “We reserve the right to work smarter tomorrow”—shorthand for her IT organization’s commitment to keep learning as AI advances and Caterpillar’s business evolves. As CIO and SVP, Engstrom leads a global IT team of more than...
How we chose the 2026 Pacesetters
To create the 2026 list of Pacesetters, a team of expert Fast Company editors and writers, along with a group of external judges, sought out groundbreaking executives in a variety of industries who are using generative artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and...
How E.l.f. Beauty is building AI into its community management
E.l.f. Beauty’s posts on TikTok and Instagram receive hundreds if not thousands of comments when they go online. Often, the comments include questions about when a product is launching, how the product compares to other E.l.f. offerings, or what type of skin or hair...
Introducing the Fast Company Pacesetters
Not long ago, using AI to optimize customer experience meant a chatbot, often a frustratingly limited one. Now, just a couple years later, it means a steady and constantly evolving conversation between companies and the humans they serve—one where AI...
How AWS has embraced AI agents—for itself and its clients
Ruba Borno leads AWS’s Global Specialists and Partners organization, working with companies that use Amazon Web Services to turn AI advances into business impact. To help make the case, she’s also turned her own AWS Marketplace engineering organization into a unit...
Petrus Palmér doesn’t want Hem to be the next Ikea
“No Black Friday. No seasonal sales. No promotional pricing.” Earlier this year, Petrus Palmér, the founder and CEO of Hem, wrote these words on LinkedIn about his decision to do away with all discounts. This isn’t the first time Hem’s business model has changed...
Malicious Virtualizor Update Served via BGP Hijacking
Using a technically valid TLS certificate for Softaculous’ domains, a threat actor diverted traffic to fake software updates. The post Malicious Virtualizor Update Served via BGP Hijacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Russia’s Rossvest Starlink Alternative Is Already Losing Satellites to Accidental Reentry
After recent Ukrainian strikes on Soyuz facilities, Russia is unlikely to reach its 250-satellite target in 2027.
This clever app turns photos of everyday objects into an aesthetic file system
A new app will let you build your own museum-worthy archive out of everyday objects and bring it with you everywhere you go. Archiv is the brainchild of graphic designer David McGillivray. The app, which is currently in beta (potential testers can join the waitlist...
Why aren’t there more courageous leaders?
I once worked with a senior leader who had mastered the art of playing it safe. In meetings with his peers, he rarely offered an opinion until it was obvious where everyone else stood. While others debated ideas, challenged assumptions, and argued for the best path...
HDMI For the Color Computer 2
[Scott Baker] bought a TRS-80 Color Computer off eBay some five years ago. He’d always intended to add a CoCoVGA or CoCoDV upgrade to hook it up to a monitor, but the device was sold out and his name never made it off the waitlist. Thus, he decided to build his own...
Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain
SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall's William Perry and Adam...
UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
The British government has opened the first competitions under a £100 million procurement scheme intended to give domestic AI startups a route into public sector contracts. Chancellor John Healey announced the initiative at a G20 finance ministers meeting in North...
OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold
The designation applies when a model can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across many well-defended systems. The post OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Try this one practice to reframe work stress when you most need it
Have you ever had a moment where the world fell quiet—not because everything stopped, but because you did? You catch your breath, your shoulders drop, and whatever’s been gnawing at you seems insignificant. That feeling has a name: awe. In a work culture that treats...
AI ruined posters. This human designer is fixing them
Bad AI-designed posters have become so prolific that actual, human graphic designers are redesigning them on their own just to show the value of a living, breathing designer’s touch. AI-designed posters have a particular look. In addition to their unnatural sheen and...
Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition
Northern Ireland's Education Authority plans to add £15 million to Fujitsu's EA One contract without a new competition, taking its ceiling to £55.4 million. The authority intends to exercise five one-year extension options already built into the deal, keeping the...
Manchester Airports Group – 8,728,451 breached accounts
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services. The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec hacking group, who subsequently published email addresses and phone numbers relating to 8.7M customers of Manchester,...
MemeBitcoin Raises $8M Strategic Round to Scale Its Public Race Toward Satoshi’s Wallet
September 1, 2026 — MemeBitcoin (MBTC), the Bitcoin-native project that turns the race to reach Satoshi's wallet into something anyone can join, has raised $8 million in a strategic round backed by Gemhead Capital, Archer Capital, M2M Capital and Mayer Venture. The...
Zoomex Deepens TradFi Push With 50+ Stock Perpetuals and Zero-Fee TradFi
VICTORIA/Seychelles/--Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading, today confirmed that its Stock Perpetuals lineup has grown past 50 contracts, marking one of the most significant product expansions in the exchange's history. The...
Tokens Are New AI Currency. Here’s Everything You Need to Understand Before You Spend Another Dollar
Every AI model runs on tokens. Every API bill is a token bill. Every context window limit is a token limit. Every speed difference between models comes down to how many tokens they process per second. Tokens are the single most important concept in generative AI, and...
When an AI Cannot Tell a Leak from a Hallucination: A Multi-Model Guardrail Case Study
A firsthand look at what happens when real account memory, simulated tools, security-shaped hallucinations, and unreliable provenance all meet in the same AI application. A shorter, screenshot-free version of this research was previously published by SecurityBrief....
AI Tokens: How They Work, How to Count Them, and How to Stop Wasting Them
Tokens are the invisible unit that runs everything in AI, how models read your text, how they generate responses, and how much everything costs. If you have ever wondered why ChatGPT seems to forget things, why your Claude bill spiked, or why the same sentence costs...
MCP Explained: Most AI Agent Builders Are Rebuilding What This Protocol Already Solves
You are building an AI agent. You write a custom wrapper for your database. Then a custom connector for your REST API. Then another for kubectl. Then another for your file system. Each one hand-crafted, fragile, and tied to your specific agent. A colleague builds a...
Learn Rust Variables and Types by Building a Scientific Calculator
Welcome to this learning Rust series where we will learn Rust by building one project per article and learn each and every concept in quite some depth. This is my new Rust series and it’ll much more comprehensive than my previous Rust series. For the first 5-6...
Inside IEC 61850: MMS, GOOSE, Sampled Values, and Security
IEC 61850 is another one of those protocols that becomes more interesting the deeper you go. At first glance, it looks like another industrial protocol to dissect: identify the transport, decode the messages, enumerate the data model, and look for places where...
Are LLMs Really Making Developers Worse at Learning?
It's a widely held idea that learning is linked to memory. Reflecting on the years before LLMs, I have to confess: I didn't really remember a thing.When I started out as a coder, memory was everything. Memory, repetition, and a rapid feedback cycle. This is how I...
AI Didn’t Make Developer Work Easier. It Removed the Easy Parts
There is an old joke that every developer knows in their bones. A non-technical person asks for a small change, “can you just add a button that emails the report,” and six days later you are still untangling why the report generation blocks the request thread under...
Your Convex Agent Can Send and Receive iMessage with Photon
Convex developers can now add a durable iMessage inbox and outbox to an agent backend with @spectrum-ts/convex, the new Convex component for Photon Spectrum. The component receives Photon webhooks, writes each verified delivery to Convex before returning an HTTP 200,...
How to Evaluate an AI-Generated Literature Review
If a report has all the expected sections and reads smoothly, does that make it a high-quality academic literature review? Not necessarily. A tidy structure and polished prose do not establish that the report has covered the core literature or accurately represented...