Spotify CEO says its top developers 'have not written a single line of code' in 2026
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Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans
Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses could be equipped with facial recognition, and an internal memo reportedly says we're all too distracted to care.
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Gary Marcus calls out viral AI essay as alarmist 'hype'
AI researcher Gary Marcus said Matt Shumer's viral essay, "Something Big Is Happening," oversells the current capabilities of AI models.
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'Tom Cruise' and 'Brad Pitt' fight over Epstein in viral AI video created with new Chinese tool
Seedance 2.0, a realistic video generation tool from ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is turning heads and raising copyright concerns.
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If you assumed your AI chats couldn't be used against you in court, think again
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could access the Claude chat transcripts of a finance startup founder accused of fraud.
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Meta-backed Scale AI is taking the Department of Defense to court. Some docs are expected to be classified.
The nature of the dispute with the Department of Defense, including what Scale AI is seeking, is unclear.
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'KGB' is how the AI spending boom will play out
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google raised capex plans to breathtaking new levels. That suggests knowledge that outsiders don't have, Bernard Golden writes.
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I'm a solo founder with AI agents instead of employees. My 'council' of AI agents saves me 20 hours a week.
A defense-tech founder built an AI "council" of 15 agents to help him run his company, using ChatGPT and Nvidia tools to replace traditional roles.
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Here are the key xAI figures who have departed in the recent exodus
Two cofounders and several other employees have announced their departures from Elon Musk's xAI in the past few days.
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McKinsey says it has 25,000 AI agents. Its rivals say that's not a metric of success.
EY's global engineering chief, Steve Newman, says a "handful of agents" do the heavy lifting at the consulting firm.
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This cybersecurity CEO says we're in an AI bubble. These are the 3 things he looks for when investing in a startup.
The CEO of Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer, said that some companies are still worth investing in. Here are the 3 things he looks for.
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Inside the outrage over Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a pivotal time for Salesforce
CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a Salesforce event stirred employee backlash, adding to company challenges like stock decline.
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Anthropic tried to crack down on 'nightmare' investment deals. They're still everywhere.
Even as Anthropic has tried to clamp down, Business Insider found multiple examples of SPVs being used to market Anthropic shares.
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OpenAI is officially killing GPT-4o and users are freaking out (again)
OpenAI has retired its popular ChatGPT model GPT-4o, sparking another backlash from users who had developed an emotional attachment to the bot.
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Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
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AI may unleash a 'revenge of the dinosaurs' as corporate giants boost profits, hedge fund exec says
AI's next phase will shift from Nvidia and cloud leaders to large incumbent companies adopting the technology to boost profits and cut costs.
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Microsoft AI CEO predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
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These Y Combinator founders raised $10 million to get corporate America into vibe coding. Read their pitch deck.
Vybe, a startup by Y Combinator alumni, raises $10M to integrate vibe coding into corporations, with participation from major tech leaders.
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Are you feeling AI fatigue at work? We want to hear from you
Software engineers are in the AI hot seat — and they're feeling it. Are you? We want to hear your experience with AI fatigue, and how you manage it.
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Author of viral 'Something Big is Coming' essay says AI helped him write it — and that proves his point
Matt Shumer said he wrote his viral essay for people like his dad who are skeptical of AI or just trying to avoid it entirely.
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How 3 solo founders use AI to transform their content into business
Solopreneurs like Katrina Purcell and Gigi Robinson use AI tools to optimize their content creation, boost efficiency, and enhance lead generation.
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Software engineer says companies should only expect 3 hours of vibe-coding work a day due to AI fatigue
Steve Yegge, who was at Amazon in the early days and spent 12 years at Google, says his fellow engineers need to learn to say no.
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Software engineers are facing a reality the rest of us have dealt with for years: Your job getting disrupted by tech.
A software veteran predicts that AI will eventually lead Big Tech companies to cut 50% of their engineers.
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Do you work on Wall Street? Tell us how you're using AI.
Finance giants are pouring billions into AI, reshaping jobs on Wall Street. What does that look like in practice? We want to hear from you.
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Cisco's president says AI agents need 'background checks' like human workers
Cisco's president says AI agents working on our behalf should get "background checks," just like human employees.
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Anthropic says it will pay 100% of the grid upgrade costs tied to its AI data centers
Anthropic pledged to cover all grid upgrade costs for its AI data centers, saying households shouldn't foot the bill.
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3 takeaways from Elon Musk's xAI all-hands, from a moon city to a company restructuring
Musk addressed the company for the first time since its merger with SpaceX and shared the plans for the company's restructuring.
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AI is helping solo business owners work faster, think bigger, and stress less
From drafting documents to reclaiming family time, these solopreneurs explain how AI is changing the way they work, decide, and lead their businesses.
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Elon Musk reveals xAI's new structure and says it meant 'parting ways' with some staff
In a recording of an all-hands meeting posted to X, Elon Musk detailed the company's new structure.
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Bill Ackman's hedge fund reveals big stake in Meta — 'one of the clearest beneficiaries of AI integration'
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square had invested approximately 10% of its capital in Meta as of December 31, the hedge fund revealed on Wednesday.
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He's worked decades in tech and wrote a book on vibe coding. He predicts 50% of Big Tech engineers will be laid off.
Steve Yegge worked at Amazon an Google. Now, he predicts Big Tech companies will cut half their engineers to help pay for the others to have AI.
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AI CEO warns AI's disruption will be 'much bigger' than COVID: 'The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming'
Hyperwrite CEO Matt Shumer wrote that people in tech "aren't making predictions. We're telling you what already occurred in our jobs."
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Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands meeting after a wave of staff departures
Following the departures of two cofounders, Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting with xAI staffers — and talked about data centers in space again.
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AI in the workplace is expanding responsibilities and intensifying work
A new study found that AI in the workplace expanded tasks outside one's job description and blurred the line between work and time off.
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Corporate America is taking a lesson from Silicon Valley: Fail fast
Some bigger firms are using AI to embrace a classic startup mentality to quickly identify what works — and cast aside what doesn't.
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Amazon engineers grate against internal limits on Claude Code
The tech giant's internal policy promotes an in-house tool called Kiro over Anthropic's Claude Code. Some Amazon engineers are unhappy about this.
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Tech bull Dan Ives says Wall Street's software skepticism is 'the most disconnected call that I've ever seen'
Dan Ives says Wall Street is underestimating software's role in the AI boom, calling the skepticism "disconnected."
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Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
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Boston Dynamics CEO to step down after more than 30 years with the company. Read the staff memo.
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter told staff on Tuesday that he'll be stepping down from the company. He first joined Boston Dynamics in 1994.
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This CEO wants AI agents to outnumber his human employees this year
The CEO of StackBlitz, Eric Simons, says the web development startup has "gone all in" on AI agents.
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Here's what smart people are saying about a software apocalypse
Jensen Huang called the sell-off "the most illogical thing in the world." He's not the only one who has qualms with Wall Street's reaction.
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Bank of America is upping its tech budget as Wall Street goes all in on AI. Here's how banks are using it.
Wall Street banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are investing billions in AI, reshaping workflows and culture.
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Reco raises $30 million as AI goes from 'blocked' to a must-have
Cybersecurity firm Reco, co-founded by Ofer Klein, Gal Nakash, Tal Shapira, secures $30M Series B funding to expand AI security solutions.
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Sam Altman's eye-scanning startup is bleeding high-level employees
Two C-suite executives and several senior staff have recently departed Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup.
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Can OpenAI make the numbers meet? It's a trillion-dollar question.
OpenAI believes it will come out on top, despite its cash burn and spending commitments. Whether it's right is a trillion-dollar question.
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How Harvey picked its first chief product officer: 'Her slope of learning is very high'
Harvey is one of best-known players in legal tech. Now, the $8 billion startup has hired its first chief product officer to help defend its lead.
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'AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it': A software engineer warns there's a mental cost to AI productivity gains
"I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career," wrote Siddhant Khare. "I also felt more drained than any quarter in my career."
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Elon Musk's xAI loses another cofounder
xAI cofounder Tony Wu has left Elon Musk's AI startup, becoming the fourth cofounder to exit the company in the past year.
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A16z partner says that the theory that we'll vibe code everything is 'flat wrong'
Vibe coding everything is just not worth it, says A16z partner Anish Acharya.
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