Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
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Wildlight Lays Off Majority of Devs After Middling Highguard Launch
techpowerup - Highguard, the new free-to-play raid shooter from Wildlight Entertainment, launched in late January to high player counts that quickly dwindled after a lukewarm reception, despite bringing some unique concepts to the table. Since its launch, daily concurr…
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OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads
James Farrell / siliconangle - OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York Times title…
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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.
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OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Georgia Wells / wsj - Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 11:20 pm / permalink 19004 / 5 stories in 24 days
xAI Cofounder Tony Wu Resigns Days After $1.25 Trillion SpaceX Merger
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Tony Wu resigned from xAI on Monday, becoming at least the fifth cofounder to leave Musk's AI startup. His exit comes days after SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal.
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Riot Games is laying off half of the 2XKO development team
Anna Washenko / engadget - Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it's Riot Games with the announcement that it's cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed to Game Developer that about 80 people are being cut, o…
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New study finds AI doesn’t reduce work — it intensifies it
Jon Keegan / sherwood - Researchers observing how workers used AI found that productivity increased, but so did their responsibilities. The use of generative AI made workers feel they were doing more, but the work crept into breaks...
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AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
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Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy
Max Tani / semafor - Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos presided over a sharp decline at the definitive Washington newspaper.
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Google Staff Demand Company Sever ICE Contracts
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google employees have signed an open letter demanding the company cut ties with immigration enforcement agencies, citing moral objections to their work.The post Google Staff Demand Company Sever ICE Contracts appeared first on WinBuzzer.
Back to Top / Saturday, February 7, 2026, 10:20 am / permalink 18883 / 2 stories in 27 days
Rent-a-Human wants AI Agents to hire humans as gig workers
mashable - Rent-a-Human wants AI agents to hire you. It's TaskRabbit for the AI era.
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CNBC: "Intel is moving into GPUs and has hired a chief [GPU] architect, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says"
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PayPal appoints new CEO
Lynne Marek / paymentsdive - The digital payments company tapped former HP CEO Enrique Lores as its new chief executive Tuesday, pushing aside Alex Chriss.
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Disney says Josh D’Amaro will replace Bob Iger as CEO
Emma Roth / theverge - Disney has picked a successor for longtime CEO Bob Iger. On Tuesday, the entertainment giant announced that its theme parks head, Josh D'Amaro, will take over as CEO on March 18th, 2026. Rumors about Iger's replacement have been swirling for more than a y…
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Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hiring
Ekemini / ventureburn - Veremark, a workplace trust company based in London, has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Veremark will use the funding to bolster tools that combat AI-detected false candidate informationThe post Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hir…
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Is AI Really To Blame For All The Tech Layoffs?
bgr - Tech layoffs have been hitting the news since the pandemic ended and AI has been projected as a major reason. However, here's the actual truth.
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Amazon cutting another 16,000 jobs
Ben Berkowitz / axios - Amazon said Wednesday it will cut another 16,000 jobs, just three months after slashing 14,000 roles across the company in a broad efficiency drive.The big picture: Companies have become outspoken about trying to do more with fewer people, for a mix of re…
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Back to Top / Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 5:20 am / permalink 18478 / 25 stories in 5 wks
Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
BeauHD / slashdot - Amazon appears to have prematurely acknowledged layoffs inside AWS after an internal email referencing "organizational changes" and "impacted colleagues" was mistakenly sent to cloud employees. CNBC reports: "Changes like this are hard on everyone," Colle…
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Pinterest layoffs today: 15% of jobs cut as social media giant is latest to cite shift to AI
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - Nike isn’t the only household corporate name to announce significant layoffs this week. Just a day after the sporting goods giant announced layoffs, citing a further embrace of automation, social media giant Pinterest has announced it will cut jobs. The d…
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