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…
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…
Meta quietly launched a new gaming app called Pocket, which lets users generate interactive mini-apps and games using AI prompts. The app, built on technology from Meta's acquisition of vibe-coded gam…
Meta named Denise Moreno as its new chief marketing officer, replacing Alex Schultz, who becomes the company's first chief data officer amid Meta's increased AI spending. Moreno, a 17-year Meta vetera…
Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees next week, cutting fewer than 5,500 roles from sales, consulting, and Xbox divisions, as concerns over AI spending mount. This marks the company…
Cargo thieves are stealing millions of dollars worth of supplies from AI data center construction projects, including copper wire and electronics, as demand for AI infrastructure surges. A coordinated…
Michael Burry, the investor known for predicting the 2008 housing crisis, revealed new bearish bets against Tesla, Nvidia, Caterpillar, Applied Materials, and the iShares Semiconductor ETF, warning of…
Microsoft is reportedly planning another round of layoffs affecting less than 2.5% of its workforce, just months after cutting thousands of jobs, as the company prioritizes AI development. The cuts ar…
OpenAI announced its first hardware product, the Codex Micro, a macro pad built with Work Louder for users of its AI coding tool Codex. The device, teased on July 15, is a niche accessory for develope…
Lantern, an e-commerce startup founded in 2024, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures to focus on generative engine optimization (GEO), helping brands improve visibility i…