In these scenarios, Meta would give some employees new roles and lay off others. One HR executive reportedly said that Meta would have reduced its headcount by about 25 percent or more under these scenarios.
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Last 90 daysIn July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it.
Nvidia’s predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn’t be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue — Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone.
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale , a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals with the likes of Microsoft and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, its new state-of-the-art chip system .
My lab develops low-cost and easy-to-use tools for identifying fake medicines , but we’re always on the lookout for other types of fakes that we can go after. For example, the cosmetics industry has a massive problem with counterfeit products.
If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL when you use the coupon code PIXEL11 at checkout.
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement , Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times.
OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market.
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” Google means that as a promise — that the updated Gemini app can handle a variety of tasks via voice commands. But there’s a ridiculousness here:…
It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old.
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a month after the incident became public, spans several discrete cybersecurity…
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate , and comes as we’re still waiting for Google to release the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that it promised to roll out…
Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple’s announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They’re appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the “suggested places” section in search, but Apple says they’ll also show up at the top of search results .
This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday!
Lovable is well known as an AI-powered platform to build applications. But ironically, it is now moving towards a future where fewer and fewer people will be using conventional apps .
Apple’s next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a “Surprise and shine” tagline, were sent out on Wednesday.
A few years ago, Caltech Prof. and co-founder of Accelerated Understanding, Anima Anandkumar set out to develop the first open-source weather model with AI.
AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world.
Particle , the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar , a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it…
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo’s cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze.
Developer Xusheng Li has uncovered some previously unknown functionality deep within Microsoft ’s Paint and Photos apps. The findings concern GUID watermarks.