Sam Altman Just Offered Every YC Startup $2M in OpenAI Tokens. Here's What That Trade Actually Costs.

May 28, 2026 · News

Sam Altman Just Offered Every YC Startup $2M in OpenAI Tokens. Here's What That Trade Actually Costs.

OpenAI is writing equity checks to 169 startups simultaneously, but not in cash. The structure is clever, the math favors OpenAI, and the risks for founders are real.

Brian Weerasinghe · 6 min read

Wix Stock Price Tanks 50% as Company Announces 1,000-Employee Layoff

May 26, 2026 · News

Wix Stock Price Tanks 50% as Company Announces 1,000-Employee Layoff

The website builder's AI bet turned expensive fast. Investors aren't waiting to see how it plays out.

Brian Weerasinghe · 5 min read

Agentic AI Is Eating the Enterprise. Governance Hasn't Shown Up Yet.

May 25, 2026 · Enterprise AI

Agentic AI Is Eating the Enterprise. Governance Hasn't Shown Up Yet.

Gartner says 40% of enterprise apps will run autonomous AI agents by year's end. Most companies have no plan to control them.

Brian Weerasinghe · 6 min read

Meta Lays Off 8,000 Employees as Zuckerberg Bets the Company on AI

May 25, 2026 · News

Meta Lays Off 8,000 Employees as Zuckerberg Bets the Company on AI

The company's biggest companywide cuts since 2022 hit integrity, cybersecurity, and design teams - while 7,000 workers get redirected into AI roles.

Brian Weerasinghe · 6 min read

Wix Plans Its Largest Layoffs Ever as AI Costs and Losses Mount

May 25, 2026 · News

Wix Plans Its Largest Layoffs Ever as AI Costs and Losses Mount

The website-builder giant is cutting up to 1,000 jobs - about 20% of its workforce - after a quarter that delivered losses alongside revenue growth and operating expenses that surged 50% year-over-year.

Brian Weerasinghe · 4 min read

Bolt CEO Fired His Entire HR Team. He Says the Problems Vanished With Them.

May 23, 2026 · Startups

Bolt CEO Fired His Entire HR Team. He Says the Problems Vanished With Them.

Ryan Breslow's wartime reset at the fintech startup offers a blunt lesson about lean operations, culture debt, and what happens when you strip HR out of a company fighting to survive.

Brian Weerasinghe · 5 min read

ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff and Offers $1M Salaries to Those Who Stay

May 22, 2026 · News

ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff and Offers $1M Salaries to Those Who Stay

CEO Zeb Evans is calling it the '100x org.' Fire nearly a quarter of the company, pay the survivors up to $1 million in cash, and let 3,000 AI agents pick up the rest.

Brian Weerasinghe · 5 min read

AI Labs Are Paying Engineers $570K to Help Build Their Replacements

May 20, 2026 · Analysis

AI Labs Are Paying Engineers $570K to Help Build Their Replacements

The same companies predicting AI will automate software engineering are offering the highest salaries in tech history to attract the engineers who can make that happen.

Brian Weerasinghe · 5 min read

Intuit Layoffs 2026: 3,000 Jobs Cut as TurboTax Maker Bets Big on AI

May 20, 2026 · News

Intuit Layoffs 2026: 3,000 Jobs Cut as TurboTax Maker Bets Big on AI

CEO Sasan Goodarzi's internal memo points to AI as the reason. The real picture is more complicated.

Brian Weerasinghe · 4 min read

Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Will Automate Most White-Collar Work Within 18 Months

May 18, 2026 · Analysis

Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Will Automate Most White-Collar Work Within 18 Months

Mustafa Suleyman says lawyers, accountants, marketers, and project managers could all be replaced by AI systems within the next year and a half. The data tells a more complicated story.

Brian Weerasinghe · 6 min read

Claude Mythos Cracked Apple's Most Expensive Security Feature in Five Days

May 17, 2026 · Research

Claude Mythos Cracked Apple's Most Expensive Security Feature in Five Days

Calif used Anthropic's Mythos Preview to build the first public macOS kernel exploit on M5 silicon, bypassing a multi-billion-dollar memory protection system Apple spent five years building.

Brian Weerasinghe · 6 min read

Which Jobs Are Safest and Riskiest From AI? The Most Authoritative Research of 2026

May 16, 2026 · Research

Which Jobs Are Safest and Riskiest From AI? The Most Authoritative Research of 2026

Anthropic, Goldman Sachs, the WEF, and the IMF have all released major findings this year. Here is what the data actually says about who is exposed, who is protected, and what is already happening.

Brian Weerasinghe · 8 min read

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