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Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Musk says they are a joint xAI-Tesla project (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-12 AI Tesla

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-7

Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind the vibe coding app Gizmo, to join its Superintelligence Labs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-6

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-5

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as “the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication” but we were “trying to de-escalate things” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-3

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-27 Startup

Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-25 AI

Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-22

Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-19 Amazon Robot

Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-15 AI

Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-12 Amazon AI

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-11 Salesforce Slack

Grindr is testing a subscription tier called Edge with AI-powered personalized matches and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $200 a week (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, bringing total funding to $87.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-4 AI

In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-3 IPO

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday “Project Dawn” meeting about company efficiency (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he “was forced to rename the account by Anthropic” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 AI

TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-27 Algorithm

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as “great news”, and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-24

Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-23

The US BOP releases Caroline Ellison, the former FTX executive and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, after about 14 months; she had a two-year sentence (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-23

Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-22 Layoffs

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-20 Startup

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-17 Brazil

Trump says Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-13 Trump U.S. Microsoft

Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-12

ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-12 AI Y Combinator

Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-10 Amazon

Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-7 Tax Asset California

Starlink says it has reached 9M “active customers” across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-12-24

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