Amazon‘s Mechanical Turk — the crowdsourcing marketplace that quietly powered much of the early AI industry’s data labeling work — is winding down. Starting July 30, 2026, the platform will no longer accept new customers. Existing users can continue, but Amazon Web Services has confirmed it has no plans to add new features. The…
Microsoft has laid off approximately 4,800 employees — about 2.1% of its global workforce — in a sweeping round of cuts announced on July 6, 2026. The Microsoft layoffs 2026 are the latest in a string of tech industry job cuts that have eliminated close to 154,000 positions across the sector in just the…
Ford has rehired 350 veteran engineers after acknowledging that its AI-powered quality inspection systems failed to deliver the results the company expected. The move — which Bloomberg first reported — is one of the most candid admissions from a major automaker that Ford AI tools, deployed in quality control, fell short of replacing experienced human…
For years, Google and Amazon presented themselves as leaders in corporate sustainability, companies that had taken the energy-hungry tech industry and bent it toward renewables, carbon offsets, and net-zero commitments. Those claims just got a lot harder to make. Both companies released their 2026 sustainability reports this week, and the numbers are stark. Google’s total…
AI image startup Midjourney is escalating its legal fight with three of Hollywood’s biggest studios by demanding they disclose how they use artificial intelligence tools — including, potentially, Midjourney itself. The move is part of the discovery process in an ongoing Midjourney Hollywood AI lawsuit that pits the startup’s fair use arguments against the studios’…
Alibaba, China’s largest technology conglomerate, will ban its employees from using Anthropic‘s AI coding tool Claude Code starting July 10, according to multiple reports from Reuters and Morningstar. The company has classified the tool as high-risk software and is directing staff to use Alibaba’s own in-house coding assistant, Qoder, instead. The Alibaba Claude Code ban…
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff this week that the company’s ambitious push into AI agents has not moved as fast as leadership expected. Speaking at an internal town hall, Zuckerberg acknowledged that Meta AI agents have not “accelerated in the way” that executives had anticipated — a rare admission of slippage for a CEO who…
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of models, is reportedly in early discussions with Samsung to explore development of a custom AI chip. The report, first published by The Information, adds Anthropic to a growing list of AI companies moving to build their own silicon rather than rely exclusively on Nvidia hardware….
An AI chip startup called Etched has emerged from stealth with numbers that would have seemed implausible two years ago: $800 million raised, a $5 billion valuation, and $1 billion already booked in contract orders — before its chip has even shipped to customers at scale. The company is building specialized AI inference chips designed…
The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic‘s Mythos and Fable AI models, ending a three-week ban that had cut off public access to what are widely considered the most powerful AI models ever released to the public. Anthropic said it began restoring access on July 1, 2026. The reversal marks the end of…
Claude Sonnet 5 is here, and Anthropic is positioning it as the model that makes powerful AI agents affordable. Launched on June 30, 2026, Sonnet 5 is the latest midsize model in Anthropic’s lineup, and it arrives at a moment when every major AI lab is racing to make agentic AI — software that plans,…
Tesla‘s Cybercab has officially hit the streets of Austin, Texas — and this time, there is no steering wheel and no brake pedals. The Tesla Cybercab began real-world road testing on June 30, 2026, with a safety monitor riding in the right passenger seat of the two-seat vehicle. The milestone comes nearly two years after…
For decades, humanoid robots were a Hollywood fantasy — something you’d see in a sci-fi film but never in a real factory, warehouse, or office. That era is over. Right now, companies like Tesla, Figure AI, Boston Dynamics, and Agility Robotics are deploying bipedal robots in real work environments, doing real jobs, for real companies….