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(AINews) Anthropic growing 10x/year while everyone else is laying off >10% of their workforce latent.space

A quiet day lets us reflect on an interesting dichotomy in the economy.

Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high techcrunch.com

Cloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn’t need as many support roles.

Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews arstechnica.com

Google’s AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.

(AINews) GPT-Realtime-2, -Translate, and -Whisper: new SOTA realtime voice APIs latent.space

OpenAI continues deploying GPT-5 everywhere

PlayStation sees AI as a ‘powerful tool’ to help make games theverge.com

Sony used its Friday earnings presentation to frame generative AI as a ‘powerful tool’ for PlayStation game development, with executives suggesting more efficient AI pipelines will accelerate output across the industry even as many indie studios continue to reject the technology.

Sony says “efficient” AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market arstechnica.com

But human artists still “must remain at the center,” PlayStation maker says.

Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems techcrunch.com

Intel shares are up 490% over the past year on Wall Street’s bet on CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s turnaround, but the rally appears to be running well ahead of the chipmaker’s actual operational recovery.

Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman technologyreview.com

Week two of the Musk v. Altman trial saw OpenAI counter Musk’s claim that Altman and Brockman tricked him out of $38 million, with Shivon Zilis testifying Musk had tried to poach Altman, alongside revelations of Microsoft’s anxiety that OpenAI would defect to Amazon.

Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure theverge.com

When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between Microsoft’s top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears […]

Everybody wants to rule the AI world theverge.com

Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch of video calls while the current CEO is texting the former CEO about who the new CEO even is. Such was the story of The Blip, the […]

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. techcrunch.com

Oracle refused to negotiate with laid-off staff seeking improved severance, and some workers discovered they were ineligible for WARN Act protections like 60-day notice because Oracle had classified them as remote employees.

Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit arstechnica.com

Google is retiring the Fitbit app in favor of a new Google Health app and launching the $100 screenless Fitbit Air, a stripped-down tracker available for preorder today that leans on AI-driven health insights rather than an on-device display.

See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses. blog.google

Google’s ‘Small Brief’ initiative pairs ad-industry veterans Susan Credle, Jayanta Jenkins, and Tiffany Rolfe with small businesses to produce ad campaigns built using Google’s generative AI tools.

Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI theverge.com

Nanoleaf is breaking a two-year product lull by expanding beyond smart lighting into home robotics, red light therapy wellness devices, and AI-driven features, ceding pace to rivals Govee and Philips Hue while it retools.

(AINews) Silicon Valley gets Serious about Services latent.space

A series of announcements line up to a big theme: Services are the next big opportunity.

The “people’s airline” and the enterprise AI gold rush techcrunch.com

Everyone wants a piece of the enterprise AI pie, and this week, we saw a string of companies making their moves. From Anthropic and OpenAI announcing new joint ventures targeting enterprise AI deployment to SAP dropping $1B on German AI startup Prior Labs, it’s becoming clear that if you’re a startup building enterprise tools, you’re likely an acquisition target. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

All the latest updates on AI data centers theverge.com

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment. From audacious plans to launch data centers into […]

Elon doubled limits bensbites.com

Free ChatGPT got instantly better.

Last 24 hours to get 50% off a second pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 techcrunch.com

Last day to buy one pass and get a second one at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Bring a partner, co-founder, or colleague at half off. Register now.

5 gardening tips you can try right in Search blog.google

An abstract background featuring soft, stippled illustrations of flowers and a butterfly in a bright palette of blue, green, and red. In the center of the image is a white circle containing a magnifying glass.

(AINews) The Other vs The Utility latent.space

a quiet day lets us reflect on the nature of AI “character” in the Clippy vs Anton debate

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The Stack thestack.technology

Cloudflare’s stock plunged ~24% in a single day — its worst ever — erasing roughly $22 billion in market value, even as Q1 revenue rose 34% YoY and the company raised full-year guidance.

MLQ.ai (Menlo Ventures data) mlq.ai

Anthropic’s enterprise market share rose from 24% in 2024 to 40% in 2025, while OpenAI’s share fell from 50% to 27%; 79% of OpenAI enterprise customers now also pay Anthropic.

Medium / Kanishk S. medium.com

Anthropic is actively hiring for over 120 software engineering roles at $300K–$570K total comp, even as Dario Amodei predicts AI will handle 100% of coding by 2027 — some listings carry an explicit ‘12-month expiration’ warning.

Yale SOM Insights insights.som.yale.edu

Unemployment among recent college graduates has climbed to nearly 6%, rising twice as fast as the broader workforce, with a 16% decline in early-career employment for high-AI-exposure roles.

Business Insider / HN reaction businessinsider.com

HN commenters derided Cloudflare’s ‘vibe coding’ framing, citing a public ‘matrix-workers’ repo full of hallucinations, misaligned ASCII diagrams and TODO stubs for authentication as evidence the AI-first claim was ‘slop’ rather than real productivity.

Programs.com / Ed Zitron & Brian Merchant analysis programs.com

A 2026 MIT study found 95% of firms investing in AI saw zero ROI; critics including Zitron point to a 30:1 ratio between announced AI layoffs and confirmed ones, calling the displacement story ‘AI-washing’ to appease Wall Street.

Press Gazette pressgazette.co.uk

Search referrals declined by 33% globally in 2025, with U.S. publishers experiencing a sharper 38% drop, according to Chartbeat data tracking over 2,500 news sites.

Mashable (Penske v. Google) mashable.com

Penske Media Corporation — parent of Rolling Stone and Variety — alleges Google ‘coerced’ publishers into feeding its AI models as a condition for appearing in search results.

European Publishers Council epceurope.eu

EPC filed a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission alleging AI Overviews cannibalize publisher content while leaving no meaningful opt-out short of disappearing from search entirely.

Search Engine Land (SE Ranking study) searchengineland.com

Google properties — Google.com and YouTube — now account for nearly 20% of all citations in AI Mode, exceeding 50% in travel and entertainment niches, with many citations leading users back to a new Google search panel rather than an external publisher.

Nieman Lab niemanlab.org

For the ‘Subscribed’ label to appear, users must link their paid publisher accounts to Google via Subscription Linking; Google says early testing showed users were ‘significantly more likely’ to click these labeled results.

Search Engine Land (Ahrefs ranking-citation gap) searchengineland.com

The overlap between top-10 organic results and AI Overviews citations dropped from 76% in mid-2025 to just 38% in early 2026, as Google’s ‘query fan-out’ pulls sources from outside the top 100 results.

i-scoop.eu — GPT-Realtime-2 benchmark analysis i-scoop.eu

Artificial Analysis verified a 96.6% score on Big Bench Audio… average time-to-first-audio (TTFA) of 1.12 seconds at ‘minimal’ reasoning settings, which rises to 2.33 seconds at ‘high’ reasoning

apidog.com — GPT-Realtime-2 API deep-dive apidog.com

developers have expressed frustration over the ‘token vs. minute’ calculation, noting that natural speech consumes tokens at roughly five times the rate of text, often leading to bills exceeding $18 per hour for continuous sessions

Deepgram benchmark comparison deepgram.com

Cartesia’s Sonic model remains the industry leader for raw speed, achieving a Time to First Audio (TTFA) of approximately 40ms… Deepgram remains nearly 40% cheaper for enterprise-scale workloads

onlinemarketplaces.com — Zillow integration controversy onlinemarketplaces.com

Zillow has faced industry backlash regarding data licensing; critics argue that surfacing Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data within a third-party AI environment like ChatGPT potentially violates IDX licensing terms

softcery.com — open-weight voice models survey softcery.com

Kyutai Moshi remains the pioneer of ‘native audio’ architecture… industry-leading practical latency of ~200ms and a theoretical floor of 160ms… Ultravox v0.7 dominates the open-weight category with a 91.8% [Big Bench Audio] score

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Jack Sun, writing.