Chime Financial is laying off about 150 employees, roughly 10% of its workforce, as the San Francisco-based neobank restructures around artificial intelligence and leaner teams. CEO Chris Britt cited …
Nous Research released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block's open source Nostr-based workspace for humans and AI agents, offering three integration paths: Buzz Desktop managed runtime, relay bridge, …
Coinkite, the maker of Coldcard hardware wallets, reported that a build error caused seeds to be drawn from a software fallback instead of the hardware generator, leading to an estimated loss of 594 B…
Entry-level data engineering jobs have collapsed 67% since generative AI went mainstream, with only 3% of postings explicitly for juniors in 2026, according to an analysis of 6,877 active roles. Stanf…
Block's open-source project Goose is moving to an issues-first contribution model, replacing pull requests as the primary mechanism for outside contributions, because coding agents have made producing…
Alphabet increased head count by 11,830 employees to 198,933 between June 2025 and June 2026, while Meta's workforce shrank by over 2,000 to 75,472 as of June 30, 2026, a 1% year-over-year decrease. T…
Tech companies have cut more than 150,000 jobs in 2026, with many citing AI as the reason, but a new paper argues these layoffs create a trap by reducing the income that buys their products. Oracle el…
Block's Buzz, a new workspace for human-agent collaboration, launched mobile apps on iOS and Android that use public-key cryptography to let users securely message and control agents running on their …
Block has released CodeCrucible, an open-source LLM-driven static application security testing (SAST) tool for vulnerability discovery, but the project's primary value is its reusable blueprint for in…
Payments giant Visa will cut about 2,600 jobs worldwide, roughly seven percent of its workforce, as CEO Ryan McInerney ties a major restructuring to an artificial intelligence push and plans for expan…
Coursera invested $100 million in Andrew Ng's new AI education startup LearnVector, valuing the company at approximately $300 million and taking a one-third stake. Ng, who will serve as CEO, said the …
Visa Inc. is laying off about 2,600 workers, or 7% of its workforce, as CEO Ryan McInerney cited AI-driven efficiency gains and a need to reinvest in areas such as commercial and money-movement soluti…
Block released Buzz on July 21, an open-source workspace where AI agents operate under cryptographic identities, signing every action for auditability. The platform assigns each agent a Nostr private …
Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace where AI agents are treated as team members with their own identities and keys, amassing 6,700 GitHub stars in two days. Andrew Ng released OpenWorker, a …
Jack Dorsey's Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace built on Nostr where AI agents join channels, review code, and run workflows alongside humans, aiming to replace Slack and GitHub. In contra…
Block released Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace, available now at buzz.xyz. Built on the Nostr protocol, Buzz gives agent…
Block's Buzz makes multi-agent workspaces legible by scoping identity rather than permission flags, but the missing primitive is delegating bounded AI capacity without sharing API keys. freeq, an IRC …
Anthropic released Fable-lite, a smaller version of its AI model, while Block introduced Buzz, a new product, according to Tom Krazit's Runtime newsletter. Google unveiled a new security model, Poolsi…
Block, the parent company of Square and Cash App founded by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, an open-source collaboration platform built on the Nostr protocol that enables humans and AI agents to work …
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced in November 2024 and donated to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation in December 2025, has seen its official SDKs reach 97 million …