Opinions
How Tech Workers Are Feeling in 2026: A Workforce Splitting in Two
Lenny’s Newsletter reports that the tech workforce is increasingly split over AI’s effect on careers, with roughly half of workers…
News
OpenAI Wins US Approval for Broad GPT-5.6 Rollout
On July 8, 2026, OpenAI received U.S. government approval to broadly release GPT-5.6, ending a restricted preview limited to about…
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Chinese AI Models Gain Ground as OpenAI, Anthropic Face New Cost War
Chinese AI models from developers such as DeepSeek and Z.ai are capturing significant market share from OpenAI and Anthropic by…
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JadePuffer: First Fully Autonomous AI-Driven Ransomware Attack Documented
Security firm Sysdig documented JadePuffer, described as the first fully autonomous ransomware attack carried out almost entirely by an AI…
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Even Realities Hits $1 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Funding for Camera-Free AI Glasses
Even Realities, a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup founded by former Apple engineers, raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round…
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Zuckerberg Admits Meta’s AI Agent Push “Hasn’t Really Accelerated” After Layoffs
At a July 2, 2026 internal town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company’s AI agent development…
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Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs Over Past Year Amid AI-Driven Restructuring
Oracle reduced its workforce by about 21,000 employees, roughly 13%, over the past 12 months, with headcount falling from 162,000…
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xAI Launches Grok Voice Agent Builder for No-Code Voice Agents
On July 1, 2026, xAI released Voice Agent Builder in beta, a no-code platform that lets developers create production voice…
Engineering
PyTorch Team Uses LLMs to Speed Up Autotuning for Helion Kernels
PyTorch engineers described an LLM-guided autotuning method for Helion kernels that matches the performance of the existing Likelihood-Free Bayesian Optimization…
Engineering
Simon Willison: Delegate Coding Work to Lower-Power Models Through Subagents
Developer Simon Willison described a technique for using coding agents more efficiently by letting a top-tier model exercise judgment about…
Engineering
Hugging Face Brings Native vLLM Speed to the Transformers Backend
Hugging Face detailed improvements to the transformers library’s vLLM backend that let it match the throughput of hand-written native vLLM…
Opinions
Europe’s AI Dolce Vita?
Kenneth Rogoff argues in a Project Syndicate commentary that although Europe lags China and the United States in AI infrastructure…