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Tech layoffs hit record highs in June 2026, with 63,000 workers losing jobs, pushing the information sector's layoff rate to 2.3%, more than double since November 2025 and surpassing the 2008 financia…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of TypeScript 7, the first version written in native code, which is about ten times faster than TypeScript 6.0, the last JavaScript-based version. JetB…

Moody's warned that banks and insurers have become dependent on a small cluster of tech giants—OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—for AI foundation models and cloud systems, creating a vendor depen…

Google is joining the Agent Plugins project as a Core Maintainer, represented by Kevin Hou, and will integrate the open, vendor-neutral specification into its products. The Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specifi…

Davidson College President Doug Hicks argues that a liberal arts degree provides an enormous return on investment and makes graduates 'AI-proof,' citing that 95% of Davidson's class of 2025 were emplo…

Sean James, a distinguished engineer in energy systems at Nvidia who previously spent 25 years at Microsoft, says his career goal is to make AI data centers 'disappear' from public attention by becomi…

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees during an internal townhall that AI productivity gains should be reinvested into building more products for the company's billions of users, not taken as extra …

Microsoft's Work Trend Index survey found that 73% of AI users in South-east Asia reported producing work they could not have done a year ago, 15 percentage points higher than the global average of 58…

A 2012 McKinsey Global Institute report found that interaction workers spent 28% of their workweek managing email, and Microsoft reports the average worker receives 117 emails daily, highlighting the …

Machine-learning engineer Santiago L. Valdarrama said he has stopped reading AI-generated code and predicted the integrated development environment (IDE) is 'on its way to the graveyard,' a claim base…

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are expected to see their combined free cash flow shrink to almost nothing in 2026 and turn negative to $125 billion in 2027, according to a Washington Post …

GamesBeat's DeanBeat column poses a question about how external developers will use AI tools for their game development and publishing clients, following Microsoft's layoffs of 1,600 employees in earl…

AWS, Cursor, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel jointly launched Agent Plugins, an open packaging standard for extending AI agents across clients, with support in ChatGPT, Codex, GitHub Copilot, VS…

Suno, the AI music company backed by Founder Collective at seed, is now valued at $5 billion, according to David Frankel, co-founder of Founder Collective, who said on the Twenty Minute VC podcast tha…

A Ramp study of more than 21,000 U.S. firms found that companies investing heavily in AI grew headcount by 10% overall and boosted entry-level hiring by 12% over two years, while the bottom two-thirds…

Microsoft reports that 87% of educators and education leaders and 79% of students agree that knowing how to use AI effectively and responsibly is important for students' futures, highlighting the grow…

Vercel and five other companies shipped Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on Aug. 6, a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP server configs that lets developers build a plugin once and install it into…

Judge Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions by The New York Times and Daily News to add new contributory infringement claims against Microsoft in the In…

SpaceX aims to build and deliver 6-8GW of AI datacenter capacity in 2027, potentially exceeding 10GW, which could generate $300-500B in capex and $300B in annual recurring revenue for SpaceX, accordin…

Amazon is building a 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power an AI data center, which would emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making it the largest pollution sour…