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AI News
Jul 26, 2026 67

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI ...

AI News
Jul 25, 2026 85

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

AI News
Jul 25, 2026 61

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.

AI News
Jul 25, 2026 62

With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience

Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.

AI News
Jul 25, 2026 74

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 51

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 48

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 73

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI st...

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 71

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine fig...

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 70

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The de...

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 68

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The upd...

AI News
Jul 24, 2026 71

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry...