Brian Weerasinghe
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Brian Weerasinghe is the founder and editor of AI Eating The World, where he covers artificial intelligence, tech companies, layoffs, startups, and the future of work. His reporting focuses on how AI is transforming businesses, products, and the global workforce. He writes about major developments across the AI industry, from enterprise adoption and funding trends to the real-world impact of automation and emerging technologies.
Latest articles
Anthropic Moves From AI Research Tools Into AI Drug Discovery
Claude Science and an internal drug pipeline put Anthropic on both sides of the biopharma transaction, and directly in the path of Isomorphic Labs and OpenAI
Claude Code vs Codex: The Full 2026 Comparison
Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol are now weeks apart on release dates. Here is where each coding agent actually wins.
OpenAI Proposes 5% Government Stake to Ease Trump Administration Pressure
Sam Altman has discussed handing Washington an equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, part of a broader push to get other US AI labs to do the same.
Meta Plans Cloud Business to Sell AI Compute as Meta Platforms Stock Jumps 9%
Bloomberg reports Meta is building a unit to sell AI computing power and hosted models, setting up a direct challenge to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Claude Fable 5 Returns After Jailbreak Triggered a 19-Day Export Ban
Anthropic restores global access to Fable 5 and expands Mythos 5 to vetted US organizations after a Commerce Department order tied to an Amazon-discovered jailbreak.
Microsoft Layoffs 2026: New Cuts to Hit Sales, Consulting, and Xbox
Business Insider reports Microsoft will cut under 2.5% of its workforce as soon as next week, layering fresh cuts on top of an already turbulent fiscal year for the company.
Claude Science: Anthropic Builds an AI for Science Workbench, Not Just Another Model
The new desktop app bundles 60+ scientific databases, compute management, and reproducible outputs into one environment, entering a race that already includes Google's Gemini for Science and OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind.
Amazon Is Hiring 11,000 Grads While Everyone Worries About AI Replacing Jobs
AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon's entry-level hiring plan undercuts the loudest fears about AI replacing jobs, even as the company keeps cutting corporate headcount elsewhere.
Claude Sonnet 5 Closes the Gap With Opus on Agentic AI Tasks
Anthropic's new mid-tier model brings near-Opus performance, a 1M token context window, and tighter safety guardrails at a lower price.
Central Bankers Warn the Artificial Intelligence Bubble Could Trigger a Global Financial Crash
The Bank for International Settlements published its strongest-ever warning about AI spending, flagging circular debt structures, shadow banking exposure, and the risk of a cascade if hyperscalers slow down.
Volkswagen Plans to Cut 100,000 Jobs and Close Four Plants in the Biggest Overhaul in Its History
CEO Oliver Blume is targeting a workforce reduction twice the size of the existing plan, four German factory shutdowns, and a full structural breakup of the VW Group — as tariffs and Chinese competition hollow out the margins that built the company.
She Built a Women's Safety App With Zero Coding Experience. It Hit $456K ARR in 3 Months.
Sabrine Matos had never written a line of code. After a femicide case hit close to home, she used the AI app builder Lovable to launch Plinq, a women's safety app, in 45 days.
Latest guides
How to Save Tokens in Claude Code Using Graphify
Stop burning your Claude usage limits on file search. Build a knowledge graph once, query it forever.
How to Use Lovable AI: A Complete Guide for Non-Technical Founders
A beginner's walkthrough for building and publishing a real website or app with Lovable, without writing a single line of code.
Figma MCP Server Setup: Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Antigravity
Connect Figma's Dev Mode MCP server to every major coding agent and start turning real design data into code.
How to Humanize AI Text: 7 Editing Moves That Work
Practical techniques to edit AI-generated content so it reads like a person wrote it and passes the detectors checking for it
How to Set Up Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI That Runs 24/7
Install Nous Research's open-source autonomous agent locally or on a VPS in under 20 minutes, complete with model setup, Telegram gateway, and code snippets
How to Get Claude Code Free Using OpenRouter's Free API
Route Claude Code through OpenRouter's free model tier and run a full agentic coding environment at zero cost - legally, permanently, and in under 10 minutes.
How to Use Claude Inside Microsoft 365
Claude now works natively inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Here is how to get it running and what to actually do with it.
How to Use Higgsfield CLI to Generate Images and Videos Inside Claude
Connect Higgsfield's 30+ creative models to Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex in three commands and generate production-ready visuals from a conversation.
How to Use Meta's Official Ads MCP and CLI with Claude
Meta just gave AI tools direct, authorized access to your ad account. Here is how to set it up and what you can actually do with it.
How to Design a High-Converting Landing Page in Claude Design
Go from a rough brief to a polished, on-brand landing page you can deploy straight from the browser, without opening Figma.
How to Get Started with Claude Code: A Beginner's Complete Guide
From installation to your first real coding session - everything you need to go from zero to productive with Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent.
How to Do a Brand Refresh in Five Minutes with Claude Design
Use Claude Design to build a full visual system — typography, colors, components, and slide templates — without touching a design tool.
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