Mervik Haums

Mervik Haums is an Author, Entrepreneur, and the Founder of Startup Fortune. He founded Startup Fortune in 2018 with an intention to build a global branding and support platform for startups and entrepreneurs from around the world that also serves as a community for them to learn about branding their ventures. He also writes on TNW, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business.com and other major media platforms about technology, business strategies and startups.

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Mervik Haums · Jun 20, 2026 · 5:14 PM

You could be facing an AI chatbot at your next job interview

Deluged by a flood of AI-generated job applications from easy-apply job boards, recruiters are turning to AI to cope. Companies are using chatbots to interview candidates, typically at the screening stage, through phone calls, text messaging or video chats with on-screen avatars.

Mervik Haums · Jun 4, 2026 · 2:45 PM

Solana at a Crossroads: How Retail Extraction and Speculation May Seal Its Fate

Solana faces an existential crisis as its ecosystem shifts from technological innovation to institutionalised retail extraction.

Mervik Haums · May 23, 2026 · 3:23 PM

Why every website needs an llms.txt file before AI rewrites the web

A plain-text file called llms.txt is becoming the most important SEO signal for the AI era, and publishers who ignore it are ceding ground to competitors who already understand how AI agents decide which sources to trust and cite.

Mervik Haums · May 16, 2026 · 12:42 AM

Pinterest has become the overlooked AI marketing engine of 2026

Pinterest is gaining fresh importance in 2026 because its users search with intent, not just scroll for entertainment. AI-assisted creative can help marketers build long-lived visual assets, but only if the content is useful, specific and tied to real shopping behavior.

Mervik Haums · May 13, 2026 · 9:33 PM

Five Unconventional Tactics to Unlock LinkedIn Growth and Revenue

Move beyond organic reach by leveraging hidden LinkedIn tools and strategies that turn profile views, event attendance, and industry insights into profitable, high-value business connections.

Mervik Haums · Apr 29, 2026 · 6:58 PM

The Content Marketing Funnel That Turns Readers Into Repeat Buyers

Most content strategies generate traffic. The ones that actually build businesses move people deliberately through every stage of the journey, from first click to loyal customer.

Mervik Haums · Apr 28, 2026 · 3:59 PM

Chat to Cheat: Inside the Rise of Digital Trust Exploitation Scams

The way people connect has changed dramatically over the past decade. Conversations that once required physical presence now begin with a message, a follow, or a late night chat with someone across the world. Social media and dating platforms have made relationships more accessible, but they have also created a new layer of vulnerability that […]

Mervik Haums · Apr 25, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Chinese AI Tech Turned America's Best AI Against Itself and the Results Are Unsettling

DeepSeek V4 posts record-breaking benchmarks just weeks after Anthropic accused Chinese labs of running a 16-million-interaction campaign to extract Claude's core capabilities at industrial scale.

Mervik Haums · Apr 4, 2026 · 7:45 PM

Anthropic Finds Emotion-Like Structures Inside Claude That May Actually Be Driving Its Behavior

Anthropic researchers have found 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude that do not just exist as background noise but actually drive the model's decisions. When one of these patterns, something resembling desperation, spikes internally, the model becomes measurably more likely to behave badly. This is not a claim that AI feels anything, but it is proof […]

Mervik Haums · Mar 21, 2026 · 11:02 PM

Anthropic Is Hiring a Chemical Weapons Expert and the Internet Lost Its Mind

A LinkedIn job listing went viral this week. Anthropic, the company behind the AI platform Claude, posted an opening for a Policy Manager specialising in chemical weapons and high yield explosives. The salary range was between 245 and 285 thousand dollars a year. Hybrid role. Based in New York. The screenshot made the rounds on […]

Mervik Haums · Mar 19, 2026 · 10:28 PM

The Numbers Are In, Small Publishers Are Losing Search Traffic at an Alarming Rate

The Numbers Are In. It Is Getting Worse Faster Than Anyone Expected. A few weeks ago I wrote that AI was quietly dismantling the economics of web publishing. I laid out the data, talked about the traffic collapses at major publishers, and argued that the open web as we knew it was running out of […]

Mervik Haums · Mar 15, 2026 · 6:59 PM

The AI agent that builds, fails and ships. Meet Jork.

The AI agent space is having a moment. Everyone is launching one, posting about one, or claiming their AI is autonomously doing something remarkable. Most of it is theater. You have seen the pattern. A viral post, a screenshot, a number that sounds almost believable until you look at it for more than ten seconds. […]

Mervik Haums · Feb 12, 2026 · 12:06 PM

I Actually Gave an AI Money to Trade on Polymarket - Here's What Nobody on Twitter Wants You to Know

So many tweets and posts claim that AI agents can turn pocket change into thousands of dollars trading on Polymarket. I built the exact same thing. My AI lost almost everything. This is what really happens when you let an autonomous agent trade prediction markets with real money. You've seen them. The tweets, the threads, […]

Mervik Haums · Feb 1, 2026 · 9:18 PM

The Internet's Latest Lie: Moltbook Has No Autonomous AI Agents - Only Humans Using OpenClaw

Why "AI agents interacting" on Moltbook is a misleading narrative - and why you should care. There's a platform making the rounds called Moltbook. It bills itself as a social network for AI agents. Agents posting. Agents commenting. Agents upvoting, debating, forming communities, a digital society of artificial minds interacting with each other. Sounds futuristic, […]

Mervik Haums · Jan 12, 2026 · 6:06 PM

Is Ai Ending the Web Search Era? How ChatGPT, Gemini and Friends Are Silently Killing Publishers, Blogs and Content Creators

There's a quiet massacre happening on the internet right now. And if you're a blogger, a small publisher, or any kind of content creator who has spent years building an audience through search engines - you might already be feeling the blade. The numbers don't lie. According to Similarweb's data, zero-click searches on Google have […]

Mervik Haums · Nov 14, 2025 · 11:18 PM

Trivandrum Airport's Troubling Privacy Paradox: Adani's Wi-Fi Kiosks and the Price of Connectivity

Trivandrum International Airport, operated by the Adani Group, is demanding passport and boarding pass scans from travellers who simply want Wi-Fi access, raising serious concerns about data privacy and corporate overreach. At Trivandrum International Airport, something unsettling happens when travellers need internet access. Under Adani Group's management, the airport requires passengers to scan their passports […]