Meta is slashing 10% of its workforce—around 8,000 jobs—while leaving 6,000 positions unfilled, shrinking headcount by 14%. Microsoft targets 8,750 U.S. employees with voluntary buyouts, hitting 7% of its 125,000-strong staff. These cuts hit right as both pour billions into AI data centers and elite talent, prioritizing infrastructure over broad payrolls. This isn’t isolated. Amazon […]
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Big Tech companies spend massive sums on federal lobbying, dropping $20 million in Q1 2026 alone—about $226,000 daily across 11 major players like Meta, Alphabet, and AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI. Meta led with $7.1 million, while AI outfits hit records amid regulatory fights. This surge builds on 2025’s $109 million peak, fueling armies of
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OpenAI has struck back in the AI race, launching GPT-5.5 ‘Spud’—a powerhouse model topping benchmarks in reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and computer use. It outpaces rivals like Anthropic’s Claude, matching even elite scores while keeping the speed of GPT-5.4 and slashing costs to $5/$30 per million tokens. Self-optimizing its own GPU code, ‘Spud’ signals a
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Images 2.0 has dethroned Google’s Nano Banana, which ruled leaderboards for nearly a year. After early hits like DALL-E and GPT Image 1, this upgrade tops every category on Arena AI’s text-to-image charts. It generates stunning 2K images up to eight at a time, in any shape from ultrawide to tall, and
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No single AI wins every race. A coding champ like Claude 3.5 Sonnet shines in debugging police case scripts or refactoring podcast automation code, but it lags in creative storytelling for your next episode hook. Teams win by matching models to missions — outcomes over hype. Pick by task: For general chat and productivity, lean
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Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, has always been the holy grail of AI but unfortunately it has still not been able to get over the mirage threshold. Big AI companies once promised that scaling up large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT would quickly lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI as smart as humans. But leaders like
Google is supercharging Chrome with Gemini AI upgrades, turning the world’s top browser into an intelligent co-pilot. No need to switch apps or tabs—Gemini now embeds deeply, handling tasks autonomously while respecting user control. Auto Browse brings true agentic browsing: it navigates sites, clicks links, fills forms, and completes multi-step actions like booking flights or
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The pace and expanse of AI is breathtaking. Moltbot, once called Clawdbot, is an open-source AI helper that’s blowing up online. It runs right on your phone or computer and links up with apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and iMessage. Created by Peter Steinberger last December, it shines in cool demos like bargaining for a
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Runway’s Gen-4.5 model has shattered expectations, with over 90% of participants in a study unable to distinguish its AI-generated image-to-video clips from real footage—especially tricky nature scenes and buildings fooled viewers most. Topping text-to-video benchmarks, this model delivers hyper-realistic physics, fluid motion, and stunning details like flowing liquids or expressive faces, now rolling out to
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The World Economic Forum in Davos this week spotlighted AI as the dominant force reshaping economies and societies, with top leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella dominating discussions. Amodei warned against U.S. President Trump’s policy easing AI chip sales to China, comparing it to “selling nuclear weapons to
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OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is testing ads for free and low-cost users in the US. These “Sponsored Recommendations” will show up below chat responses. The ads use your conversation topics but skip sensitive areas like health or politics. Premium users stay ad-free. This change comes as OpenAI launches a cheap $8/month “Go” tier worldwide,
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