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A developer is building an open-source tool to observe and distill Claude Code agents' behavior into a cheaper AI model, effectively creating a backup that eliminates the need for Claude's subscriptio…

Amazon removed an internal leaderboard tracking employee usage of its Kiro AI tool after workers created AI agents to perform unnecessary tasks and inflate their scores, a practice known as tokenmaxxi…

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…

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…

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on Monday, warning against concentrating artificial intelligence power in the hands of a few private companies and calling for greater oversight and regulati…

Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and canceled 6,000 open requisitions, many for software engineers, while Google's CEO reported 75% of new code is now AI-generated. Stanford researchers found…

Billionaire investor Dan Loeb dismissed concerns that the AI boom resembles the dot-com bubble, arguing that Big Tech's massive spending on microchips and data centers is justified by strong earnings …

Amazon is shutting down its internal "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after employees inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, driving up cloud costs. Senior Vice President Dave Tre…

More than 35 companies, including Meta, Amazon, and Groupon, have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing a trend of workforce reductions across tech, media, finance, and retail. Some firms, suc…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared that traditional software coding is obsolete, urging developers to stop writing code manually and instead manage AI systems that generate and test code autonomo…

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a panel that includes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,…

Researchers from Meta, Google, the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of North Carolina developed AutoTTS, a framework that automati…

Companies are abandoning the "tokenmaxxing" trend of tracking employee AI token usage as a measure of innovation, after the practice led to wasteful spending and meaningless tasks at firms like Amazon…

Amazon Web Services is in talks to add SpaceX's latest Grok AI models to its Bedrock platform, giving enterprise customers access to the models through AWS's cloud infrastructure. The partnership woul…

OpenAI began testing advertisements in ChatGPT on February 9, 2026, for eligible Free and Go users, with sponsored cards appearing below responses. Marketers and competitive-intelligence teams are man…

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) captured a 46.2% share of x86 server CPU revenue in Q1 2026 and doubled its server CPU total addressable market estimate to over $120 billion by 2030, according to S…

Meta announced new anti-scam and anti-abuse measures ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, including AI tools, consumer education pop-ups, and partnerships with law enforcement and industry peers. The com…

Sesame, the conversational AI startup co-founded by Oculus founders, launched its iOS app on Thursday, offering a public preview of AI agents designed to speak more naturally by running parallel searc…

Amnesty International released a briefing today accusing companies of unlawfully scraping vast amounts of online data to build generative AI products, calling the systems "unlawful by design" due to m…

Meta has granted developers full access to the hardware in its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, leading to experimental apps that let users unlock their cars, control smart home devices, and play b…