Month: June 2026
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI
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.
In praise of memcached
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OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water
Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has “eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.” Still, it doesn’t address all of the concerns around AI data … Read more
U.S. Senate passes housing bill that carries four-year ban on a Fed CBDC
The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.
Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash
Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won’t be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle’s data logs.
Bipartite Matching Is in NC
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Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents
The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber’s board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsuits.
Bitcoin funding rate hits 2-week high: Is $70K next?
Bitcoin’s funding rate and orderbook setup signal investor optimism, but ETF outflows and macro red flags could limit BTC’s short-term upside.
The Silicon Valley Fallacy: What You Need to Know
Most technical founders carry a quiet ranking in their heads. Research sits at the top. Engineering comes next, a notch below, because engineers implement what the researchers discover. Then, somewhere down in the basement, sits sales and marketing: the dirty work, the part you’d skip if you could. The comforting form of this belief is … Read more
GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
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Confident, Fluent, and Wrong: What Happens When Your AI Agent Trusts Bad Data
I Built a RAG Agent That Was Always Confident and Often Wrong. Here’s What Fixed It. A few months into running one of our newly deployed project – an internal AI agent that let our support team ask plain-English questions about customer accounts instead of digging through four different admin panels, I got a Slack … Read more
Securitize and tZERO clash over patents as race to bring Wall Street onchain heats up
tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street’s attention.
Prosper AI Raises $30M Led by a16z to Scale Autonomous Patient Journey Platform
Every year, more than $450 billion is bled out of US healthcare administration before a single patient is treated or a single claim is paid. It is not lost to fraud. It is not the product of badly drafted contracts. It evaporates in the space between the moment a patient first picks up the phone … Read more
Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026
Valve’s Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn’t subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis … Read more
Will We Become Unemployable Thanks to AI?
Is AI a Frankenstein’s monster that threatens to devour its creator by taking away their ability to earn a living? Is it a genie with potentially irreversible destructive tendencies that can never be reined in or stuffed back into the bottle that we released it from? Is it going to mark the end of the … Read more
Ric Edelman says crypto’s biggest growth story is happening off the price chart
Crypto prices remain under pressure, but Ric Edelman says institutional adoption and tokenization are accelerating behind the scenes.
Portaterra
Dryfus stared through the portal he’d just opened, his heart seized by a sudden rush of fear. He could see a barren, rocky landscape backed by a stormy sky — nothing to hang his hopes on. This was not one of those commercial gateways kept open for long stretches as tourists and travelers stepped between worlds. This … Read more
21Shares co-founder warns tokenization hype is outrunning Wall Street reality
Tokenization can improve settlement and asset movement, but key pieces of financial infrastructure remain unprepared for institutional-scale adoption.
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
Comparing Bitcoin Giant Strategy to Terra Luna Is a STRC, Benchmark Says
The analysts underscored that Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) can’t technically lose its “peg.”
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
Franklin Templeton launches dedicated crypto division after closing 250 Digital acquisition
The new unit arrives amid rapid growth in tokenized assets, with Franklin Templeton’s onchain product suite expanding from roughly $768 million to more than $2.5 billion over the past year.
Strive says digital credit selloff was a liquidation event, not a credit crisis
A sharp selloff in digital credit products exposed growing pains in a young market, a Strive executive argues the underlying credit fundamentals remain intact.
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
BitMine, Sharplink, Joe Lubin Back New Ethereum Research and Development Lab
Some of Ethereum’s largest holders are coming together to fund a new research and development lab aimed at boosting the network and ETH.
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI’s biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn’t think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn’t think it’d be “hell.” After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as “shitholes,” Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. “It was big and airy, … Read more