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Meta employees are reportedly “miserable” between looming layoffs and AI push.

Meta recently began tracking employees’ computer activity to train its AI models, plans to cut 10 percent of staff later this month, and is pushing “employees to make so many A.I. agents that others had to introduce agents to find agents, and agents to rate agents,” sparking “anger and anxiety,” reports the New York Times:

This AI-pilled CEO's memo cutting over 21% of the company is a prime example of the new layoffs playbook

DeepL laid off 250 employees. CEO Jarek Kutylowski's memo referenced AI, smaller teams, fewer layers, and founder mode.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology

Testing shows rotor blades won’t disintegrate when they spin at supersonic speed.

The “people’s airline” and the enterprise AI gold rush

Anthropic, OpenAI, and SAP are racing to lock up enterprise AI. Equity unpacks the latest deals, plus crypto fundraising, driverless trucks, and Pentagon AI contracts.

Google Fitbit Air Preorders Come With a Second Band for Free

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Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure

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Who’s paying for these Perplexity ads?

Perplexity AI: the answer engine with a lot of question marks

Axios Live: AI is making finance accessible, investors say

Artificial intelligence is helping nonexperts code, make money and sell products faster

The future of game consoles is looking bleak

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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

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will.i.am's ASU course taught 75 students to build AI agents while the tech industry cut 73,000 jobs in four months

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them.