Vercel's internal agent @v now powers every day-to-day job at the company and is being productized as Eve, with CEO Guillermo Rauch extrapolating that AI agents will run entire companies. Palantir CEO…
Bitcoin Policy Institute and more than 40 digital-asset organizations, including Block, Coinbase, Strategy, MARA, Galaxy, BitGo, Brink, OpenSats, Chaincode Labs, Spiral, Trezor, Unchained, Btrust, and…
Twitch named Christine Cassis, a former executive at Google, Pinterest, Reddit, and Shopify, as its new chief marketing officer on Tuesday, filling a role vacant since Rachel Delphin left in January. …
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) 2026-07-28 specification, released last week with updated TypeScript, Python, Go, and C# SDKs, makes MCP a fully stateless protocol, removing the required handshake, M…
Fora Travel, the AI-powered travel agent platform, has appointed Alanna Gregory as its first chief marketing officer, effective immediately. Gregory, who previously served as VP of marketing at Block,…
Coinkite disclosed a Coldcard firmware flaw on July 30 that could generate Bitcoin wallet seeds with insufficient entropy, and researchers linked three waves of thefts totaling 1,367 BTC (about $88.6 …
Block's open-source AI-native workspace Buzz nearly tripled its GitHub stars from about 6,700 to 18,400 in seven days, shipping six releases (v0.4.20 to v0.5.2), while Type launched its human-plus-AI …
Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, a group chat app built on the open-source Goose AI agent framework that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex join team conversations as first-class members,…
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…