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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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Pinterest has become the overlooked AI marketing engine of 2026
Mervik Haums · May 16, 2026
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.



Chat to Cheat: Inside the Rise of Digital Trust Exploitation Scams
Mervik Haums · Apr 28, 2026
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 […]


Anthropic Finds Emotion-Like Structures Inside Claude That May Actually Be Driving Its Behavior
Mervik Haums · Apr 4, 2026
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 […]

Anthropic Is Hiring a Chemical Weapons Expert and the Internet Lost Its Mind
Mervik Haums · Mar 21, 2026
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 […]

The Numbers Are In, Small Publishers Are Losing Search Traffic at an Alarming Rate
Mervik Haums · Mar 19, 2026
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 […]

The AI agent that builds, fails and ships. Meet Jork.
Mervik Haums · Mar 15, 2026
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. […]


The Internet's Latest Lie: Moltbook Has No Autonomous AI Agents - Only Humans Using OpenClaw
Mervik Haums · Feb 1, 2026
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, […]


Trivandrum Airport's Troubling Privacy Paradox: Adani's Wi-Fi Kiosks and the Price of Connectivity
Mervik Haums · Nov 14, 2025
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 […]

Anthropic Accuses Chinese State-Sponsored Actors of Using Its Tools for Cyber Espionage
Mervik Haums · Nov 14, 2025
Anthropic Accuses Chinese State-Sponsored Actors of Using Its Tools for Cyber Espionage
Anthropic reports that Chinese state-sponsored actors used its Claude AI to run an automated cyber espionage campaign, signaling a new era of AI-driven threats. US AI company Anthropic, the creator behind Claude AI, has published a report accusing Chinese state-sponsored actors of using its artificial intelligence tools to conduct automated cyber espionage campaigns against various […]

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