Google Cloud’s Quiet Cuts Reach Its Elite Threat Hunters
The notice arrived after dark. Andrew Kopcienski, a principal threat intelligence analyst at Google, wrote on LinkedIn that he had been laid off “alongside a lot of other great folks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
xAI Hires Chinese Tutors to Teach Grok the Language
Elon Musk’s AI company is hiring people to teach its chatbot to speak Chinese. xAI is recruiting Chinese-language AI tutors to label and refine Grok’s understanding and generation of Chinese,…
BYD Joins the Humanoid Robot Race, Citing Its Car Technology
BYD, the Chinese automaker that became the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles, is developing humanoid robots, making it the second major car company to stake a claim in a…
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Following OpenAI’s Lead
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, has filed for an initial public offering, making it the second top-tier AI laboratory to seek a public listing after OpenAI. The…
