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🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:
• American Express: 5% of staff, ~3,500 people;
• Barclays: 5,000 jobs, because "AI provides efficiency";
• eBay: ~9% of personnel;
• Netflix: 6% of employees, ~1,000 people (WSJ).
Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out35
🍏 Apple officially unveiled the first-ever MacBook Pro with a touch OLED screen and Dynamic Island. The iconic illuminated Apple logo is also making a…30Today we're sending another 100 new invitations to the IT Community beta!29👀 Anthropic says it has an internal model that outperforms Mythos 5.1 in both capabilities and alignment. This follows from a re-analysis of a cybersecurity…27🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:16
🛂 Password manager 1Password launched a tool that lets AI agents sign in to accounts without access to passwords.20
Microsoft introduced "medical superintelligence": the AI system diagnoses two to four times more accurately than doctors.18
🤖 Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new flagship AI model that reportedly outperformed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.16
🎧 A small research lab Block showed Dessa, the most realistic voice AI model yet, which learned to speak from sound alone.17
