NATO is building the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, an AI-enabled defense network using thousands of sensors, drones, satellites, and uncrewed systems to detect and slow attacks near Russia-faci…
Rilla, an AI startup making sales coaching software, spends $1.7 million annually on housing stipends for employees to live near its New York office, requiring a 72-hour work week. CEO Sebastian Jimen…
Perplexity, the San Francisco AI search startup valued at $20 billion, is quietly developing an internal AI coding tool codenamed "Teammate" that could rival Cursor and Claude Code. The tool, which ha…
Software-engineering interviews are shifting from memorized coding tests toward AI fluency and project reasoning, with companies like Dropbox and Cisco now allowing AI tools during assessments and rec…
Mana Jampala, a 12-year-old founder in British Columbia, launched Voxa, an AI receptionist for small businesses, in November 2025. Voxa handles calls, bookings, orders, and summaries, and Jampala is n…
Model distillation is undermining the profitability of major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google by enabling smaller models to learn from their outputs, as reported by Business Insider on July…
Stan cofounder John Hu and a cofounder built Stanley, an AI content assistant for creators, in 14 days. The LinkedIn version launched in June 2025 reached $200,000 in annual recurring revenue within s…
Amazon is developing Moonraker, an Alexa+ project designed to handle multi-step voice-agent tasks from a single prompt, such as booking a ride and texting a friend. Internal documents reveal Moonraker…
Stilta raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop AI agents that automate patent analysis for enforcement, defense, and commercialization. Founded in January 2026 by fo…
Cursor CTO David Pan declared on X that Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team size is outdated in the AI era, arguing that AI tools enable smaller teams to be more productive. Pan, who worked at Amazo…
Perplexity has developed an internal AI coding tool codenamed Teammate, designed for long-horizon engineering tasks such as owning projects and monitoring services, which company engineers have used s…
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 about 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a shift toward engineering-led AI customer support. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2025 and coincide wi…