Good morning ☀️, leader of the next generation.

We will talk about agents. AI agents.

They will change the way how we do business, how we interract and even how we do our everyday lives.

Agents will build business.

Agents will organize your day.

Agents will fill up your fridge.

I will let that sit in here for a while, so we can imagine and build the future together one agent at a time...

⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡

1. 🎥🤖 Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
2. 💬🧠 Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
3. 🐦🌿 Kiwibit's AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
4. 📱🌍 India's MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
5. 📉💸 Tech sell-off on AI spending jitters drags stock markets lower
6. 🔒⚠️ Meta halts worker tracking for AI training due to privacy fears
7. 📊🇰🇷 Wall Street is getting trampled by an AI sell-off. South Korean market plunges 10%
8. 🇬🇧🔬 UK backs new AI labs to make technology cheaper, more reliable and easier to use
9. 🚢💡 AD Ports Group Launches AI-Powered Intelligence Headquarters IHQ, Marking 20 Years of Digital Innovation

Stockholm startup wants AI video interviews to replace traditional resumes entirely.

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates

The hiring process has long been broken. Candidates pour hours into applications and cover letters, only to vanish into a black hole of silence. Generative AI has made things worse, with employers leaning on automated screening tools to manage a flood of submissions. Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs believes there is a better way — and it just raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to prove it.

The company is building a video-first hiring platform that blends AI-powered interviews with short-form video profiles. Think LinkedIn meets TikTok. Rather than relying on resumes alone, candidates complete AI-driven interviews designed to highlight their personality, communication style, and real potential.

The process is straightforward. Job seekers connect their LinkedIn profile, and Fika's AI analyzes their background and generates personalized interview questions. Candidates then sit a roughly 10-minute video interview with an AI agent currently powered by Google's Gemini models. Afterward, the platform automatically edits responses into short video clips and organizes them into a living profile that employers can browse and revisit over time — no need to apply separately for every role.

The idea was born from personal experience. Brothers and co-founders Jakob Dubois (CEO) and Alexander Dubois (CTO) nearly passed on a standout candidate while recruiting for their previous startup, social app Gaff, simply because his resume failed to impress on paper. Once they spoke with him, his drive and ambition were immediately clear. That moment convinced them that resumes routinely miss what matters most.

What sets Fika apart from competitors like Alex, Maki, and Mercor is its candidate-first approach. While most rivals focus on helping employers screen and match applicants more efficiently, Fika is building a pool of pre-interviewed candidates that employers can actively discover. It flips the traditional model on its head.

This could be particularly valuable for early-career professionals and candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, whose potential rarely shines through a standard resume. By giving these candidates a chance to speak for themselves early in the process, Fika could open doors that might otherwise stay shut.

That said, video profiles come with real risks. When employers can see a candidate's appearance, age, race, gender, and accent before reviewing their qualifications, the potential for bias and discrimination increases significantly. It is a meaningful trade-off, and one the platform will need to address carefully as it scales.

Fika is free for job seekers. Employers pay nothing upfront, with Fika collecting 10% of a candidate's first-year salary upon a successful hire. The company points out this undercuts the 20% to 30% fees typically charged by traditional recruiters — a compelling pitch for cost-conscious hiring managers.

The platform is opening early access to candidates this week, with a full public launch planned for autumn. Fika will initially focus on the Swedish market before expanding internationally. The team is small for now but expects to grow to around 10 employees by year's end.

Employer interest appears strong. More than 100 companies are on the waitlist, and over 50 have already tested the platform, including Plenty Labs, SICS.ai, Kognity, and Rebtel. The $4 million round was led by Luminar Ventures, with participation from Alliance VC and King co-founders Sebastian Knutsson and Riccardo Zacconi — the duo behind the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush.

The funding will go toward continued platform development, team growth, and preparations for the broader launch later this year. Whether Fika can navigate the bias challenges while delivering on its promise of a fairer, more human hiring process remains to be seen — but the ambition is clear.

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate living inside Slack.

Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic has introduced Claude Tag, a persistent AI assistant embedded in Slack for Enterprise and Team customers. Users can tag @Claude in channels to get insights, assign tasks, and let it work autonomously through staged steps.

What sets Claude Tag apart is its memory — it learns from channel conversations over time and can access other channels if permitted, building organizational context. An ambient mode even lets it proactively flag updates or follow up on forgotten tasks, making it feel like a real, always-present team member.

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Real Conversations with the People Building the AI Future

The Supercharged Podcast is quickly becoming a space for real, unfiltered conversations about AI — beyond the hype, tools, and surface-level takes.

Each episode dives deep with founders, operators, and builders who are actively working with AI — or building AI-first companies — to uncover how it’s truly changing the way work gets done.

From strategy and systems to real-world execution, these conversations are practical, honest, and focused on what actually works — not just what sounds good.

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⚡ Let’s Make AI Actually Useful:
What Would Move the Needle in *Your* Industry?

AI has potential — but generic advice rarely helps.

What would be genuinely valuable for AI to do in your industry right now?

• Automate a painful workflow?
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• Replace a manual process that wastes time?
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Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.

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