Refer, an AI recruiting startup founded by Andre Hamra, has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to about $10 million. The San Francisco-based comp…
Meta used AI-powered workplace tools to penalize employees for taking medical and parental leave and then selected them for layoffs, according to a lawsuit filed by 26 current and former workers in fe…
IBM shares fell roughly 25% on Tuesday, erasing nearly $68 billion in market value in what MarketWatch said was on pace to be the company's worst single-day drop ever, worse than its Black Monday fall…
Business Insider will host a live Q&A on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET with Mukund Jha, CEO and co-founder of vibe-coding startup Emergent, which raised $100 million as of January 2026. The discussion, part…
Meta is pushing advertisers to use its AI ad tools, but a Business Insider investigation found the tools generating gibberish copy, mangled limbs, and inaccurate product images. Eight advertisers and …
Tech giants Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are investing billions in new data centers across the US to power next-generation AI technologies, creating thousands of blue-collar jobs for constructi…
Meta is drawing advertiser ire for pushing AI ad tools that produce blunders such as a bike with two handlebars or a man in a women's networking campaign, with a spokesperson pointing to terms of serv…
Workers ordered to use AI by their bosses are then penalized for it, a phenomenon researchers call the "AI penalty" that is costing employees promotions and raises, according to a Business Insider rep…
China's Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a free open-source AI model with a 1 million-token context window, drawing comparisons to DeepSeek. In tests, the model performed well on email writing, product recommen…
Legacy codebases encode organizational history in formats that AI agents cannot safely interpret, leading to architectural hallucinations when agents apply public-code patterns to enterprise systems. …
New data from SignalFire shows software engineers now make up 55% of hiring at major tech companies, up from 46% in 2019, while design hiring is down 48%, product management down 39%, and marketing do…
OpenAI merged its Codex tool with ChatGPT, creating a supercharged clipboard manager that lets users store and retrieve multiple text snippets with keyboard shortcuts. Business Insider's Stephen Counc…
Business Insider AI reporter Stephen Council used OpenAI's Codex tool to build a custom clipboard manager for his MacBook in under six minutes, without writing any code. The tool, created from a 190-w…
Meta pulled its Muse Image AI tool from Instagram after three days of backlash over consent, as the feature allowed users to generate images referencing public accounts without opt-in consent. Critics…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI company of stealing confidential information by exploiting former Apple employees' continued access to Apple's systems after they left f…
Drafted released V2 of its AI home-design tool on Friday, adding room placement controls, partial regeneration, and exterior customization. The San Francisco startup aims to solve the problem of AI-ge…
A new analysis from Indeed Hiring Lab shows the share of US job postings containing AI terms has tripled from 2.6% in 2022 to 8.3% in early 2026, with 63% of AI-touched titles in non-tech fields such …
Micron announced on July 9, 2026, that it is increasing planned U.S. fab and technology investment to more than $250 billion through 2035 and has poured first concrete at its Clay, New York DRAM megaf…
Stan, a creator-commerce company, built its AI content product Stanley in 14 days and grew it to $3 million in annual recurring revenue, according to founder John Hu. The product, which helps creators…
Ardour Analytics founder building FundlyMart, a WhatsApp B2B pharmacy commerce bot, identifies token bloat—not model intelligence—as the primary cost driver in agentic AI systems, with conversation co…