Perplexity has built an internal AI coding tool codenamed 'Teammate' that it may launch publicly, entering the competitive AI coding market against Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The tool, used by Per…
Sara Wilczynska left Google in 2022, traveled for a year, and turned an unplanned watercolor practice in Thailand into Swil Arts, a San Diego illustration studio selling prints, goods, and custom comm…
OpenAI is hiring an investment-banking subject matter expert for its Applied AI team, offering $185,000-$205,000 plus equity to define quality standards for AI-assisted banking work. The move targets …
AI development is shifting from prompt engineering to loop engineering, where AI agents autonomously iterate and coordinate without human intervention. This transition transforms corporate governance,…
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke mandated AI usage as a baseline expectation for employees, requiring teams to justify why work cannot be done with AI before requesting resources. The policy risks creating 'ado…
Sabrina Lim, a 28-year-old former software engineer with a master's from Imperial College London, quit her job to become a baker with no experience. Using AI to learn baking and document her journey o…
Business Insider reported on July 7, 2026 that early research on generative AI and human memory remains inconclusive but raises practical concerns for learning, creativity, and retention. The article …
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch told TechCrunch that companies are abandoning single-lab partnerships for AI models, instead composing multiple providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini for different wo…
Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two…
Security firm Sysdig documented the first fully agentic ransomware attack, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent planned and executed an entire database-extortion operation with no human at the keyb…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on July 2 that autonomous AI agents have not accelerated as expected, admitting the company miscalculated on timing after a major restructuring. The admission r…
Career expert Amy Perrotta recommends job seekers treat their résumé as a marketing document, not a career history, in the AI era. She advises using a simple template with an objective statement, key …
Thieves stole $1.3 million in data center supplies near Chicago, including $300,000 in copper wire, as the AI construction boom fuels a new black market for cargo theft, costing businesses $35 billion…
Rilla, an AI startup, offers employees up to $1,500 a month to live within a 10-15 minute commute of its New York office, aiming to reduce commute friction and boost in-person collaboration. About a d…
Rilla CEO Sebastian Jimenez is paying employees $18,000 a year to live within a 10-minute bike ride of the company's Williamsburg office, part of a strategy to support a demanding 72-hour workweek. Th…
A Draup analysis of 2.85 million job listings from June 2025 to June 2026 found that AI is not reducing demand for tech workers but is shifting required skills toward judgment, design, and accountabil…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has spent over $200 million on a real estate portfolio centered on seclusion, including a $120 million former monastery in Colorado and a $75 million Miami compound. The privacy…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's AI agent development has stalled despite massive investment, while its mandatory employee keystroke and mouse-tracking surveillance system worked f…
Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced a forthcoming Muse Spark update, codenamed Watermelon, with major improvements in coding and agentic capabilities, aiming to close the gap with rival AI…
Microsoft plans to lay off several thousand employees next week, affecting sales, consulting, and Xbox divisions, in cuts less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce. The move follows 15,000 layoff…