U.S. Tech Layoffs Surge 66% as AI Replaces Jobs
American technology companies cut more than 38,000 jobs in May, the most in a single month in nearly two years, and the people doing the hiring say one factor dominates…
GitLab Cuts 14% of Staff, Exits 22 Countries to Retool for AI
GitLab, the company whose software manages the code repositories of half the technology industry, is shrinking to get ready for a world where computers write the code. The company said…
Amazon Shows AI-Generated Product Photos in Search Results
Some of the products appearing in Amazon’s search results do not exist. The retailer has begun displaying AI-generated images for certain items, and in tests by The Verge, searches for…
Suno Raises $400 Million While Fighting the Music Industry
Suno, the AI company that lets anyone generate a song from a text prompt, has raised $400 million in new funding even as it fights a copyright battle that could…
WeChat Lets Phone Assistants Place Its Calls
WeChat, the messaging service used by more than a billion people, is opening its most guarded asset: the ability to place calls and send messages. The company said this week…
Google’s Dreambeans Turns Photos Into Cartoons
Google has a new AI toy, and it has an unusual name. The company this week launched Dreambeans, a tool that transforms photographs and everyday scenes into cartoon-style images with…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Lands in Microsoft’s Surface, Opening a New Front in PC Chips
SEATTLE — The laptop looked like every other premium ultraportable on the Build 2026 stage: thin metal chassis, edge-to-edge display, the kind of machine executives carry to meetings. Then the…
Microsoft’s Scout Assistant Manages Your Calendar, and Learns How You Work
SEATTLE — The demonstration began with a calendar that had gone wrong. Three meetings had been double-booked, a deadline had slipped, and a policy document was due in two hours.…
Microsoft’s Project Solara Puts an Operating System on Standalone AI Devices
SEATTLE — The device on the Build 2026 stage had no screen, no keyboard, and no obvious way to control it. It was a small black puck sitting on a…
