Block's Square integrated ChatGPT and Claude for direct restaurant orders, allowing consumers to browse menus and place orders without marketplace fees. The AI-powered ordering system uses Square's pr…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that 90% of employees at large companies lack AI skills, creating a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must evolve or face career obsolescence. Arora is hiring …
TIDAL will strip royalties from fully AI-generated tracks starting July 15, 2026, becoming the first major streaming platform to demonetize such content. The policy, which includes automatic detection…
Tidal announced a new AI policy requiring artists to label music wholly or substantially created using AI, and banning royalties from such streams, effective July 15. The policy aims to protect authen…
TIDAL will allow fully AI-generated music on its platform but will block it from earning royalties, effective June 29. The policy, which also includes AI badges and removal of fraudulent content, aims…
Block, Atlassian, Salesforce, and Snapchat have laid off thousands of employees, replacing roles with AI, while Czech insurer Direct is firing a third of its staff, citing the end of "playing around w…
BitGo cut approximately 15% of its workforce, affecting 85-90 roles, to refocus on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement, and AI-powered infrastructure, CEO Mike Belshe announced. The layoffs com…
Crypto custody firm BitGo is cutting nearly 15% of its staff, CEO Mike Belshe announced Thursday, citing a strategic pivot to AI-powered infrastructure. The layoffs affect roughly 90 employees and fol…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says 90% of enterprise employees lack AI skills, calling the current period a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must self-train or face replacement. Arora contrasts …
A comparison of four terminal coding agents in 2026—goose, Claude Code, OpenCode, and Pi—finds that frontier models have largely converged, making the harness around them the key differentiator. Claud…
Block has launched Builderbot, a suite of AI-native tools that orchestrates multiple AI agents across its entire codebase to automate coding tasks. The tool executes over 200,000 operations daily and …
Jack Dorsey's Block revealed that its internal AI engineering system, Builderbot, now accounts for 15% of all production code changes at the company. The system, built on Block's open-source framework…
Tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Block laid off 40,000 workers in a single month, citing AI as the primary reason, but PwC research shows firms that use AI to augment employees se…
Databricks launched LTAP, a unified OLAP/OLTP architecture that eliminates ETL and pipelines by storing all data in the lake. The platform, powered by Lakebase, handles 12 million database launches da…
Databricks announced at its Data + AI Summit 2026 that Agent Bricks is now generally available, with over 100,000 agents built on the platform processing one quadrillion tokens annually. The company i…
Robinhood is laying off 10% of its full-time employees, about 290 people, in a restructuring move that notably avoids blaming AI, unlike many other tech companies. CEO Vlad Tenev's note to employees d…
Databricks announced the expansion of Agent Bricks into a comprehensive agent platform at the Data + AI Summit 2026, with over 100,000 agents built and 1+ quadrillion tokens processed annually. The pl…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employmen…
The widespread adoption of AI, regardless of its actual efficacy, poses a significant threat to the labor force by enabling de-skilling and mass layoffs, as corporations use AI as a pretext to replace…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era ove…