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Snap to Lay Off 1,000 Staff, Blames AI
Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs — 16% of its global workforce — with CEO Evan Spiegel citing AI's ability to handle repetitive work as the company pushes toward profitability.
Walmart adds Gemini, Matter to new Onn 4K Pro
Walmart has unveiled an updated Onn 4K Pro streaming box that incorporates Google’s Gemini AI assistant and Matter‑over‑Thread smart‑home compatibility, marking a $10 price increase and a larger desig
Allbirds Sells Shoes for $39M, Shifts to AI Compute
Allbirds, once valued at over $4 billion, sold its shoe business for $39 million and is rebranding as an AI compute provider, prompting its BIRD shares to soar more than 800 % in a dramatic market rea
Adobe launches Firefly AI Assistant for chat editing
Adobe launched a Firefly AI Assistant that lets creators describe edits in natural language, automatically executing multi-step workflows across Creative Cloud apps, with Adobe framing it as a 'fundam
Apple Threatens Grok Removal Over Sexual Deepfakes
Apple warned Grok’s developers to curb sexual deepfake content, threatened removal from the App Store, and after a back‑and‑forth review approved the app despite its continued ability to generate such
OpenAI Releases GPT‑5.4‑Cyber for Defensive Cybersecurity
OpenAI has rolled out GPT‑5.4‑Cyber, a defensive‑cybersecurity AI model, first to a limited cohort of vetted users and now expanding access to thousands of security teams, positioning it against Anthr
MDalgorithms hires remote Growth Marketer ($80K–$140K)
AI dermatology company MDalgorithms is hiring a remote Growth Marketer paying $80K–$140K, reporting directly to the CEO with authority over priorities, budgets, and the full marketing stack.
Waymo, Uber, Tesla Lead U.S. Robotaxi Race
Waymo, Uber, and Tesla now form the U.S. mobility 'Big Three,' each using distinct assets—Waymo’s robotaxi network and $16 bn capital, Uber’s ride‑share platform and $100 m charging hubs, and Tesla’s
Usercentrics Report: Privacy-led UX Boosts Trust for AI
A new MIT Technology Review Insights report, produced with Usercentrics, argues that privacy‑led user experiences—treating consent as an ongoing relationship—are essential for building consumer trust
OpenAI launches GPT‑5.4‑Cyber for defensive security
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.4‑Cyber, a defensive‑focused AI model rolled out to a limited group of vetted security professionals under its Trusted Access for Cyber program, positioning itself against Anthro
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber, expands defender access
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a defensive-security variant of its flagship model, and expanded its Trusted Access for Cyber program to thousands of individual defenders and hundreds of security teams
OpenAI's $852B Valuation Faces Investor Doubt as Anthropic Surges
OpenAI's $852 billion valuation is drawing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company pivots toward enterprise customers amid Anthropic's revenue surging from $9 billion to $30 billion i
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico)
Multiple U.S. federal agencies and three congressional committees have quietly reached out to Anthropic to test its Claude Mythos model, sidestepping the Trump administration’s AI ban. The Commerce De
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information)
Uber's CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company’s rapid adoption of AI coding assistants—especially Anthropic’s Claude Code—has already exhausted its full‑year AI budget within the first months of 2
NVIDIA Plans 9GB RTX 5060 & 5060 Ti with Cut Memory Bus
NVIDIA is reportedly planning 9 GB versions of its RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs, narrowing the memory bus from 128-bit to 96-bit to cut costs for budget buyers.
Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Developers on social media claim Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code have slowed, while company staff deny the slowdown and say it isn’t a capacity‑management move. Simultaneously, Anthropic i
Google Accused of Hiding ICE Data, EFF Demands Probe
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has urged California and New York attorneys general to investigate Google for allegedly violating its promise to notify users before sharing personal data with ICE,
Molotov Attack on Sam Altman's Home Over AI Fear
A 20‑year‑old suspect allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home after posting about AI‑driven human extinction, marking a rare violent escalation in the largely
Science Corp. Raises $230M, Preps Brain Sensor Trials
Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink co‑founder Max Hodak, secured $230 million in a Series C round and is preparing to launch the first U.S. human trials of its biohybrid brain‑computer i
Sony's PS6 Lite Cancelled Developers Call It Nightmare
A PlayStation 6 “Lite” console, rumored to use the handheld Canis APU, is officially ruled out as a nightmare for developers, according to leaker KeplerL2, leaving only the standard handheld and a pos
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