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SentinelOne shares fell 12% after the company announced plans to cut 8% of its full-time workforce to focus on artificial intelligence and data investments. CEO Tomer Weingarten told analysts the layoffs are a deliberate…
A developer has created Aweskill, a CLI-first Skill package manager designed to be operated autonomously by AI coding agents. The tool enables agents to install, manage, and troubleshoot their own Skills without human in…
Block Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey laid off nearly half the company's workforce in March 2026, citing AI coding agents as the reason, and investors responded by driving the stock price up 25 percent in after-hours trading. The m…
French neocloud company Mistral AI has selected VAST Data’s storage and AI Operating System stack to power its Mistral Compute GPU cloud infrastructure, providing sovereign AI facilities in Europe. The deployment will su…
Brilliant has launched an AI tutor designed to encourage critical thinking in children. The tool aims to engage young learners with interactive problem-solving rather than providing direct answers. This release targets t…
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle called the Ojai, built with China-based Geely's Zeekr, to offer public rides without human supervision in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The purpo…
A developer calculated their monthly software subscription costs and found they were spending $67.89 per month ($814.68 per year) on essential developer tools, with costs rising to $194.89 per month ($2,338.68 per year) …
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowledged the "oddness" o…
By 2027, the role of software developers will shift from manual coding to system architecture and AI orchestration, as repetitive implementation tasks become automated. Engineers will increasingly describe intent rather …
Tesla Inc. has registered only 42 vehicles for its Texas robotaxi service, according to new state data, while rival Waymo operates 577 automated vehicles in the state — more than 13 times Tesla's fleet. The figures, disc…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a free, offline AI mentor for activists that runs entirely on a user's device without cloud processing or data logging. The 3GB app provides step-by-step org…
Gemini launched "Command Center," an AI-driven intelligence hub inside its prediction markets platform, integrating SpaceXAI models including the Grok large language model to deliver real-time summaries, sentiment analys…
France 24's "Talking Europe" special, broadcast 29 May 2026, examines whether the European Union is prepared for the economic and social disruption of artificial intelligence, reporting on grassroots education in rural I…
A developer has created a new non-LLM model with strong reasoning capabilities that costs under $10 per month to run, but requires training and guidance like a pet. The creator initially launched the model as part of a g…
A developer built JobPilot AI, a free platform that helps international job seekers in Sweden generate professional Swedish-language CVs and cover letters using AI, after discovering that qualified foreign workers were b…
Repolog launched a website audit tool that scans live URLs in seconds, generating ranked reports covering on-page SEO, Core Web Vitals, 19 security checks, and AI readiness for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI.…
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 combined platform s…
Nvidia has partnered with smart electrical panel maker SPAN and homebuilder PulteGroup to deploy compact AI compute nodes, called XFRA, on residential properties. The pilot program targets around 100 nodes for 2026, tapp…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, scheduled for October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, is accepting speaker applications until 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. The event will gather over 10,000 startup and VC leaders to discuss AI…
HSBC analyst Stephen Bersey upgraded Snowflake from Hold to Buy, raising the price target from $176 to $289, citing accelerating AI monetization and margin expansion. The upgrade follows Snowflake's fiscal Q1 results, wh…