FDE heats up in May, 2026
The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role is experiencing a surge in demand as of May 2026, marked by major investments and hiring pushes from Anthropic, Google, and venture firm a16z. Google CEO Kurin…
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The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role is experiencing a surge in demand as of May 2026, marked by major investments and hiring pushes from Anthropic, Google, and venture firm a16z. Google CEO Kurin…
Google launched Gemini Spark, an always-on AI agent that runs continuously on dedicated cloud virtual machines, at Google I/O on May 19, 2026. The agent proactively manages Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Driv…
Google's new Gemini Spark AI agent, introduced at the company's I/O developer conference, scanned a WIRED reporter's personal emails, calendar, and documents to plan a birthday party — but misidentifi…
Vidai has released the Community Edition of its AI gateway software, a free Rust binary that provides a full control plane for managing AI traffic within a user's own network. The software offers mult…
Google's Jules async coding agent, which became generally available in 2025 and received major updates at I/O 2026, removes developers from the code-writing loop entirely by allowing them to assign ta…
A developer built a tmux-based notification system that displays colored dots in window tabs to indicate when Claude Code agents need attention. The system uses Claude Code hooks to write status flags…
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents,…
Illinois lawmakers passed Senate Bill 315, making the state the first in the U.S. to require independent third-party safety audits of frontier artificial intelligence companies. The law, which passed …
Google fixed a bug in its Gemini app that caused one or two Omni videos to consume an entire usage quota. Ultra members now receive twice as many video generations, and failed requests are no longer c…
A developer building WebKernelAI found that traditional website malware scanners fail to detect SEO spam because attackers hide malicious content behind user-agent detection, referrer checks, and cond…
AI-generated articles now account for 50% of all online articles, matching the share written by humans, according to a new analysis of 55,400 randomly sampled web pages from Common Crawl. The proporti…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are competing to raise $36 billion to acquire chips from Google for use by Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google. The deal would provide Anthropic with cri…
Google's AI pricing has tripled annually, while OpenAI's flagship model rose after a period of subsidy and Anthropic's most powerful models saw a price decrease. The three vendors now all face increas…
Oort launched a prompt library where every listing is tied to a shipped project, allowing developers to clone and run prompts using their own API keys from providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google…
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su told MIT's graduating class of 2026 that artificial intelligence is a tool, not a replacement for human workers, emphasizing that "technology itself does not decide what the future…
A ZDNET reporter who used Google's Gemini AI assistant in Android Auto for two months found the tool transformed their daily drive in four key ways. The AI reduced the need to reach for a phone or car…
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has suspended new applications for data center sales and use tax exemptions after the program cost taxpayers $1.5 to $1.6 billion in 2025, 12 times more than the projected $1…
California's largest trial courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an AI assistant called Learned Hand to draft legal research, summarize motions, and prepare tentative rulings on rea…
Aizy, a one-year-old Dutch AI-marketing firm based in Breda, has acquired Uptmz, a seven-year-old performance-advertising platform, merging the two into a single system serving over 600 customers. The…
Google launched Coral, a full-stack platform for edge AI that combines an AI-first hardware architecture with a unified developer experience to enable efficient, local AI processing. The platform prov…