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California's broader unemployment measure, the U-6 rate, hit 10% in the third quarter of 2025, the highest in the nation and well above the national median of 7.3%. The state has long ranked high on this metric, with a 2…
A blog post on zettelkasten.de reports that junior software engineering roles are being reduced as senior engineers oversee AI agents, and that degrees are perceived as devalued because students delegate writing to ChatG…
Writer Benjamin Hollon reports in a personal essay that he is repeatedly asked about AI when he tells people he is a writer, a conversation he finds exhausting and unproductive. He expresses serious technical, profession…
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more have reached their highest level since 2021, with 13 such liquidity events in Q2 2026, driven partly by SpaceX's IPO. Meanwhile, AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI are shifting f…
Dutch Central Bank chief Olaf Sleijpen argues that massive AI investments will cause short-term inflation but eventually pay for themselves through productivity gains. Sleijpen, who also sits on the ECB Governing Council…
Public standard-setting bodies have failed to produce harmonized technical standards for the EU AI Act, missing an August 2025 deadline and prompting the European Commission to stagger implementation into 2027 and 2028. …
Cynomi released a report on June 30, 2026, analyzing MSPs' top AI questions from Reddit, Perplexity Deep Research, AlsoAsked, and its own community. The report found MSPs are most concerned with handling risky client AI …
Anthropic paused its planned June 15 billing change for Claude Agent SDK and headless workflows after developer backlash and ahead of its IPO. The change would have moved agent usage off subscriptions onto separate credi…
Vinod Khosla advocates for linear generators from Mainspring Energy to power AI data centers, bypassing the grid bottleneck. Mainspring closed a $258 million Series F round in April 2025, with backing from Khosla Venture…
Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are embedding AI features across services, but users and publishers criticize the lack of opt-out options. DuckDuckGo saw a 30% increase in U.S. installs after Google's AI upg…
Lenovo announced new endpoint resilience and managed security offerings to address gaps in AI threat readiness, as 90% of IT leaders report concerns. The solutions combine devices, security technologies, expert services,…
US Representative Ro Khanna defended calling witness Michael Lucci 'racist' during a House Select Committee on China hearing, after Lucci suggested denaturalizing Chinese-Americans born in the US via birthright citizensh…
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and push for AI policy i…
CIA and FBI leaders are resisting a Trump administration demand to compile a master list of every US spy and potential recruit, fearing a single leak could compromise operations and endanger agents. The Office of the Dir…
Enterprise AI coding adoption has shifted from experimentation to infrastructure, with cost control and usage visibility becoming top priorities. At Gartner's summit, attendees focused on managing spiraling AI costs, as …
Nearly 400 local newspaper publishers in the US have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their copyrighted journalism without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT. The publishe…
The European Commission has issued a call for tenders for a study on the European data market covering 2027–2028. The study will monitor data and AI trends to support EU digital policy, including the Digital Decade and D…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, setting the stage for a potential public offering in late 2026. The company's valuation approaches $1 trillion …
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestically developed chips, claiming it as the first of its scale to achieve end-to-end training on Chinese silicon. The move directly…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The company claims it is…