CISA added CVE-2025-62593, a critical remote-code-execution flaw in Ray, the distributed AI framework used by OpenAI, Netflix, and Uber, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 17, gi…
Nik Kleverov, co-founder and chief creative officer at Native Foreign, said on the Adspeak podcast that AI should be a creative accelerant, not a human replacement, citing work for Toys"R"Us, Coca-Col…
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings said in a recent interview that companies should not treat employees like family, citing the 2001 layoff of a third of Netflix's workforce as a turning point that impr…
Cloudflare reported that since the beginning of 2026, its AI code reviewer has identified almost 230,000 deviations from engineering standards, with nearly 16,000 resulting in approval being withheld.…
Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU Stern, argues that the AI debate has gone off track, with advocates and skeptics talking past each other. He notes that AI's explosive growth since ChatGPT…
A software engineer at a major tech company reports that AI agents now handle most coding and technical conversations, leaving engineers as 'stenographers' who re-humanize AI output, and describes fai…
OKX has upgraded its OKX Card rewards program across the European Economic Area, offering a 50% rebate on subscriptions like Netflix, ChatGPT, and Claude, capped at €10 per month and paid in USDG stab…
Netflix engineer Chris Dollin describes a technique for performing large-scale code changes (LSCs) by using AI agents to explore the problem space and encode solutions into deterministic metaprogrammi…
Temporal Technologies, a durable execution platform founded in 2019, is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a valuation exceeding $12 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company, which co…
A class action lawsuit filed in January in California court alleges that Eightfold AI's hiring software functions as an undisclosed consumer report, ranking applicants without allowing them to see or …
Erin Kistler, a product manager with nearly 20 years of experience, is suing Eightfold AI in a California class action filed in January, alleging that the company's automated hiring software screens j…
A Financial Times report quotes a financier who says recent 'AI-native' job candidates are 'alarmingly shallow,' and that critical thinking—a skill more common among humanities graduates—is the most i…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set a $187 million budget for 2027, with awards expenses accounting for 23%, and reported raising $308 million toward a $500 million goal by 2028, accor…
Investors rotated out of semiconductor and AI hardware stocks into beaten-down software names on Monday, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) down about 5.4% while the iShares Expanded Tech-Softw…
Netflix open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference (OCI) that uses an actor-critic loop to automate error-prone tasks in causal analysis, reducing toil while leaving higher-le…
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement on August 17, 2026, to strengthen copyright safeguards on ByteDance's Seedance video and Seedream image AI models, following a cease-an…
AI video production has rebounded from the disappointment of OpenAI's Sora, with companies like Promise setting up near Hollywood studios and Netflix using AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles. Higgsfield, a…
Shareholder activism held steady in H1 2026 despite market volatility, with M&A and AI-related campaigns dominating, according to Diligent Market Intelligence (DMI). Notable contests included Paramoun…
Chip Huyen's 'AI Engineering' and 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' are among the 10 books recommended for AI engineers in 2026, according to a newsletter by an unnamed author. The list also includ…
Netflix engineers Ying Li, Arjun Rao and Shradha Sehgal tested GenRec, an LLM-backed ranker, on approximately 10% of traffic for four weeks and reported a statistically significant 0.006% relative imp…