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Amazon is shutting down its internal "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after employees inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, driving up cloud costs. Senior Vice President Dave Tre…

More than 35 companies, including Meta, Amazon, and Groupon, have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing a trend of workforce reductions across tech, media, finance, and retail. Some firms, suc…

New Constructs CEO David Trainer is advising investors to avoid SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO, calling the company's projected $1.75 trillion valuation "truly out of this world." Trainer argues that…

Amazon removed an internal AI usage leaderboard called "KiroRank" after employees allegedly engaged in "tokenmaxxing," running unnecessary AI calls to inflate their usage scores. Senior vice-president…

Amazon has listed the LG 42-inch C5 OLED evo 4K TV at its lowest price ever, dropping to under $800 with an 11% discount. The 2025 model features a 144Hz refresh rate, 0.1ms response time, and an Alph…

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Wo…

Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs, Amazon employees rendered its internal AI ranking system useless, Chinese courts began enforcing a framework barring AI-justified layo…

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI to become the world's most valuable private AI startup. The company also released Claude Opus 4.8 a…

Amazon Web Services launched the next generation of OpenSearch Serverless on Thursday, a fully managed search and vector database designed specifically for AI agent workloads that can instantly scale …

Amazon has removed an internal AI leaderboard that ranked employees based on their usage of artificial intelligence tools, after the system encouraged workers to chase higher scores rather than focus …

Companies are abandoning the "tokenmaxxing" trend of tracking employee AI token usage as a measure of innovation, after the practice led to wasteful spending and meaningless tasks at firms like Amazon…

Datadog Director of Engineering Diamond Bishop outlined five key lessons for building production-ready AI agents at the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, based on the company's experience deploying i…

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI startup for a potential initial public offering. The round, co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dra…

Cognition co-founder Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray discussed the rise of "async agents" — AI coding tools that operate in the background rather than requiring constant developer oversight —…

Amazon's Project Nara, an end-to-end AI production suite, is now available to independent filmmakers through a new grant program, as announced at the AI on the Lot conference in Culver City, which dre…

Snowflake shares surged 35% and headed for their best day ever after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon. The company topped Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter ex…

Loryn Brantz, creator of The Good Advice Cupcake, publicly condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon after learning her character would be adapted into an AI-assisted animated series using Amazon's Project Nara p…

Snowflake shares surged after the company reported better-than-expected earnings, driven by growth in its AI product offerings. The cloud data platform also announced a new partnership with Amazon, fu…

NextEra Energy announced a $66.8 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy on May 18, 2026, creating a combined utility with 110 gigawatts of generation capacity and 10 million customers. The m…

Proton Mail now allows users to send and receive emails from their Gmail address directly within the Proton Mail interface, eliminating the need to use the Gmail app. The feature imports recent Gmail …