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CFOs Admit AI Layoffs Will Be 9x Higher This Year, But Won't Say Where
A new Duke-Fed survey reveals companies plan half a million job cuts attributed to AI in 2026. The twist? Most CFOs admit they're seeing zero productivity gains.
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Microsoft Copilot Pits GPT Against Claude in New Researcher Upgrade
New Critique feature uses GPT to draft responses and Claude to fact-check them, achieving a 57.4% score on deep research benchmarks
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SoftBank's $40 Billion Loan Signals OpenAI IPO Coming This Year
Wall Street giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs extend unsecured 12-month loan that bets on one of history's largest public listings
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Amazon Buys Fauna Robotics for $350M, Escalating Humanoid Robot Race
The e-commerce giant acquires maker of Sprout, a kid-sized home robot, as humanoid competition heats up
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Google Backs Anthropic's $5B Texas Data Center in AI Arms Race
Tech giant offers construction financing for 500MW campus as Claude creator locks in compute capacity advantage over smaller rivals
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SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment
The unsecured 12-month bridge loan signals lenders expect OpenAI's public listing to happen within the year, giving SoftBank liquidity to settle the debt.
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AI Policy in 2026: The Year States and Feds Go to War
Federal preemption, child safety lawsuits, and the end of voluntary governance are reshaping the regulatory landscape.
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Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't
From GPT-2 in 2019 to Mythos in 2026, AI labs keep warning us their models are too powerful for public release. Then they release them anyway. At some point you have to wonder if this is safety or marketing.
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Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026
Rebuilt Siri gains deep app integration, conversational chat interface, and web-sourced summaries to compete with Perplexity and Google Gemini.
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Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October
The Claude maker is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. At $60 billion, it would dwarf OpenAI's expected offering later this year.
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Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27
OpenAI's exclusive partnership ends. Users will choose their preferred chatbot through new Extensions settings. Apple is also building its own chatbot Siri based on Gemini.
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Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Seeks $25 Billion Valuation in AI Infrastructure Race
The startup is in talks to raise $2.5 billion, underscoring the staggering capital requirements of building AI infrastructure at scale.