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Wix is laying off approximately 1,000 employees, or 20% of its workforce, in the largest job cuts in company history. CEO Avishai Abrahami cited the strengthening Israeli shekel and a strategic shift toward AI-native rol…
A developer built Keph, an uncensored AI chatbot with a mystical Sphinx persona that provides unfiltered answers without disclaimers or moderation. The chatbot features an animated sphinx eye, ambient soundscapes, and a …
OpenAI and Anthropic are targeting initial public offerings as early as fall 2026, with combined proceeds from the two AI giants expected to approach $200 billion. OpenAI, valued at roughly $852 billion, plans to list in…
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 boxing games using he…
In just a few months, generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have fundamentally reshaped a developer's daily workflow, automating repetitive tasks and reducing code development time by 56% on average. This t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apocalypse. The messaging…
A user on Hacker News posted an "AI Marketing and Growth Specialist" job listing. The post includes a comment from the user "AiGrowth" promoting a newsletter, the "AI Growth Brief for Founders," which outlines six AI shi…
CLI Market has launched a unified API that enables AI agents to search, compare, and purchase products across 41 verified retailers in 8 countries with a single `pip install`. The platform provides 36 MCP tools, over 13,…
S45 cofounder Aman Singh said the AI-native investment platform hires only for roles that artificial intelligence cannot perform, with most of its workforce split between engineers building AI agents and "AI agent banker…
Israeli technology companies and R&D centers are facing a wave of layoffs and closures in 2026, driven by currency strength, AI-related restructuring, and tighter fundraising conditions. VCCafe, citing a running list mai…
CNN filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the startup’s AI tools produce verbatim copies of the network’s journalism and byp…
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) has emerged as the new buzzword in artificial intelligence, with startups like Recursive Superintelligence and researchers including Richard Socher and Andrej Karpathy racing to build AI …
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for initial public offerings later this year, with OpenAI targeting September and Anthropic eyeing October or later, as the two AI giants seek to go public amid economic headwinds. Open…
Databricks co-founder and SVP of field engineering Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji will argue at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that enterprise AI deals fail not because of model performance but because deployments create operational …
Gemini, the crypto exchange co-founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, is partnering with SpaceXAI to integrate its Grok AI model into the Gemini Predictions platform, creating a personalized feed of event contracts for…
Elon Musk clarified that SpaceX's partnership with AI company Anthropic is smaller in scope than previously anticipated. The announcement comes after speculation about the deal's scale, with Musk downplaying expectations…
Anthropic's hiring process requires candidates to complete a CAPTCHA verification step, as the company's job application page blocks access unless the user confirms they are not a robot. The page also mandates that brows…
CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York court Thursday, alleging the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its articles and provide users with content locked behind CNN’s subscription paywall. The…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman said the next major AI revenue opportunity lies in drug discovery, not chatbots, during an episode of 'The Possible Podcast' on Wednesday. Hoffman argued that AI-driven medicine represents…
AI is augmenting rather than replacing human workers in B2B customer support, according to data from Pylon, the agentic support platform. The technology resolves only about 15% of B2B support tickets end-to-end, compared…