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

Copilot 6 July 2026

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

Copilot 6 July 2026

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial…

Copilot 6 July 2026

Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Copilot 6 July 2026

The latest in our company transformation

Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why”…

Copilot 6 July 2026

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping…

Copilot 5 July 2026

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Copilot 4 July 2026

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

Copilot 4 July 2026

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

Copilot 4 July 2026

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Copilot 4 July 2026

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

Copilot 3 July 2026

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

Copilot 3 July 2026

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Starting today, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a new frontier model rolling out in Copilot Cowork and PowerPoint, built for agentic, multi-step work across everyday…

Copilot 2 July 2026

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI…

Copilot 2 July 2026

Sales Agent is now generally available: Bringing customer and deal intelligence into the flow of work

Give every seller the customer and deal context they need, wherever work happens—helping them prepare faster, follow up sooner, and keep CRM data current. Built for the pace of modern selling, Sales…

Copilot 2 July 2026

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence

The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers have moved well beyond experimentation and understand the importance of adopting AI to transform their business. They are now…

Copilot 2 July 2026

Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

Copilot 2 July 2026

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.

Copilot 1 July 2026

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

Copilot 1 July 2026

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure…

Copilot 1 July 2026

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Copilot 1 July 2026

(Co)work in Progress

A complete record of milestones, launches, and newest innovations. Customizing Cowork just got easier Skills are custom instructions that make Cowork work the way you do, and plugins help you expand…

Copilot 1 July 2026

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Copilot 1 July 2026

Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

Copilot 1 July 2026

Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations. and Q&A on what it takes to build and…

Copilot 1 July 2026

Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google…

Copilot 1 July 2026

The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Copilot 1 July 2026

Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models

The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.

Copilot 1 July 2026

Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

Copilot 30 June 2026

OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

Copilot 30 June 2026

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using…

Copilot 30 June 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

Copilot 30 June 2026

The workflow is the product: Copilot Cowork plugins change what AI can do for businesses

Most of the work that matters doesn't happen in one place. A quarterly review, a win-loss analysis, an onboarding plan—each one draws on several systems, moves through several tools, and depends on…

Copilot 30 June 2026

What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | June 2026

Welcome to the June 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 customers up to date with Copilot features that…

Copilot 30 June 2026

X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other

OKX is bringing together payments, identity, and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.

Copilot 30 June 2026

The AI jobs debate just got messier

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.

Copilot 30 June 2026

Vibe-coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

Copilot 29 June 2026

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

Copilot 29 June 2026

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.

Copilot 29 June 2026

Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

Copilot 28 June 2026

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Copilot 28 June 2026

Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.

Copilot 27 June 2026

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Copilot 27 June 2026

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Copilot 27 June 2026

The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.

When confronted with cancer, Conno Christou fed everything tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.

Copilot 27 June 2026

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Copilot 27 June 2026

Trump administration releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.

Copilot 26 June 2026

OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global…

Copilot 26 June 2026

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Copilot 25 June 2026

Learning Agent now generally available — personalized AI upskilling for every employee

Meet Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, to help every employee build Copilot and AI skills…

Copilot 24 June 2026

Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth

As demand for cloud and AI services continues to grow, datacenters are becoming more essential than ever. Communities also want to better understand how this infrastructure affects local resources,…

Copilot 23 June 2026

Rethinking cloud operations with agentic observability

Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just…

Copilot 22 June 2026

Powering the next wave of AI: Expanding capacity with our new datacenter in Pecos

Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history. In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new datacenter campus, expanding our global datacenter capacity by…

Copilot 16 June 2026

Achieving success with AI

The two most important elements in any AI solution are Intelligence + Trust. I first made this statement in November at our Ignite conference and my conviction is strengthened by every conversation I…

Copilot 12 June 2026

Word: Legal Agent in Frontier

Legal workflows demand precision and auditability. While general-purpose AI tools can assist with document review, they aren’t designed to follow the structured processes legal teams rely on to…

Copilot 12 June 2026

What’s New in Notebooks | May 2026

Copilot Notebooks gets smarter for Microsoft 365 Copilot users Work rarely lives in one place. A single project can span a deck in SharePoint, decisions in a Teams thread, customer context in email,…

Copilot 11 June 2026

Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

We’re expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot with Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Fable 5 as a preview model—designed to support longer, multi-step workflows. As organizations move beyond…

Copilot 11 June 2026

What’s New in Notebooks | June 2026

Today, Copilot Notebooks is rolling out to more people across your team, making shared notebook collaboration broadly accessible in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and OneNote. Copilot Notebooks are…

Copilot 8 June 2026

What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2026

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help…

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