Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, said at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that his company has completely changed how it operates over the past year and that the closest analogy today is a “self-driving company,” where AI agents do much of the work. A support ticket is first analyzed by an agent that reviews GitHub issues, the codebase and Linear tickets, and the employee gets a complete analysis, decides what to do next and can hand the fix to another agent with a single click. The team now spends more time on architecture and on deciding what to build, and according to Masad, human judgment and taste will be needed in the process for a long time.
Nielsen surveyed 1,700 directors and senior managers in seven countries on behalf of monday.com. More than half said it has become harder to evaluate their reports' work since adopting AI, and nearly half spend more time reviewing their output. Of those surveyed, 39% use AI to write performance reviews and 58% expect to oversee more AI agents than people within a year, TechCrunch reports.
At the Paris Motor Show, which opens October 12, 20 of the roughly 60 exhibiting brands come from China, compared with 10 at the previous edition in 2024, Carscoops reports, citing Reuters. Alongside BYD, Geely, Chery, Jaecoo and Leapmotor, already known in Europe, Li Auto, Aito and Aion will also be there, among others; Chinese cars already account for more than 10 percent of new cars sold in Europe. Some of them are hybrids, which are not covered by the EU's anti-subsidy tariffs of up to 35 percent on Chinese EVs. European brands will bring the Audi A2 e-tron, Skoda Peaq, Dacia Striker and Fiat Grizzly, among others, while BMW is skipping the show.
According to CNN and The Verge, Google Cloud services in the europe-west2 region were returning errors from around 7 a.m. London time on Tuesday because of a power failure. During that time, Revolut customers were partly unable to use services including card payments, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange; a source told Reuters this was caused by the Google outage. After 1 p.m., Google said services were recovering.