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Meta Is Cutting 8,000 Jobs to Fund a $145 Billion AI Bet
Zuckerberg told employees directly: the layoffs are a line item in the company's AI infrastructure budget, not a response to financial trouble.
Oracle Laid Off 30,000 People to Fund AI. Then It Refused to Negotiate Severance.
Workers lost millions in unvested stock and tried to organize. Oracle's response: take it or leave it.
Upwork Cuts 25% of Its Workforce and Points to AI
The freelance platform that built its name on human labor is trimming its own headcount, citing AI-driven efficiency as the reason.
OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Voice Models, Including GPT-Realtime-2 With GPT-5-Class Reasoning
GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper are now available through the Realtime API, which exits beta and goes generally available.
Verizon Cuts Hundreds More Jobs Six Months After Its Largest-Ever Layoff
The telecom giant confirmed a second wave of reductions, with Basking Ridge bearing the heaviest impact, even as Q1 results showed the first signs of a real turnaround.
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs and Calls It an AI Upgrade
The connectivity cloud company is eliminating 20% of its workforce and blaming a 600% surge in internal AI usage. Investors are not convinced.
Anthropic Partners With SpaceX's Colossus 1 and Raises Claude Usage Limits
Anthropic secures 300+ megawatts from xAI's Memphis supercomputer and immediately doubles Claude Code limits for paid users.
Coinbase Cuts 14% of Staff and Bets Its Future on AI-Native Teams
Brian Armstrong frames the layoffs not as a crisis response but as a deliberate rebuild around artificial intelligence.
Unity AI Is Now in Open Beta - and It Ships with an Agent, a Gateway, and an MCP Server
Unity's built-in AI suite is now available to all Unity 6 developers, bringing a project-aware agentic assistant and open connectivity for third-party models directly into the editor.
Claude Can Now Operate Inside Blender, Adobe, and Eight Other Creative Tools
Anthropic's new MCP connectors put Claude directly inside the creative software professionals already use — from Blender's Python API to Adobe's full Creative Cloud stack.
Anthropic's $900B Round Is Two Weeks Away — and Investor Demand May Push It Higher
The Claude maker is collecting investor allocations now, with the round expected to close within a fortnight and a final valuation that may eclipse the $900B target.
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