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ARCHIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 23 · 13 STORIES
Bret Taylor's Sierra acquires YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps...
Google CEO says 75% of company's new code is AI-generated
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Wednesday blog post that three-quarters of the company's new code is now AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50% ...
MemReader Introduces Active Memory Extraction for AI Agent Systems
Researchers have introduced MemReader, a family of models for active long-term memory extraction in AI agent systems. The work addresses a bottleneck in agent m...
Tesla's TeraFab to Use Intel's 14A Process for AI Chip Manufacturing
Elon Musk said Tesla's TeraFab semiconductor initiative plans to use Intel's 14A fabrication process when the manufacturing node matures later this decade, spea...
Meta to Cut 10% of Workforce, About 8,000 Employees
Meta is planning to cut 10% of its workforce, amounting to 8,000 employees, according to a report from Bloomberg. Meta also will not hire for 6,000 roles that a...
Meta to cut 8,000 jobs in latest restructuring push toward AI
Meta told employees on Wednesday that it will cut approximately 8,000 jobs, roughly 10 percent of its global workforce, beginning on 20 May. The company is also...
SoftBank seeks $10B margin loan against OpenAI stake
SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at an interest rate of roughly 425 basis points above the secured overnight financing ...
Meta to lay off 10% of staff, about 8,000 workers, in May
Meta is planning to lay off around 10 percent of its employees in May, according to a memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale published by Bloomberg. The cu...
U.S. Special Forces Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information to Profit on Polymarket
Federal authorities have arrested and charged a U.S. special forces soldier who allegedly used classified government information to make more than $400,000 in p...
White House Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation
The White House accused China on Wednesday of conducting industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence, releasing a policy memorandum that commits ...
US accuses China of industrial-scale AI theft
The United States is preparing to crack down on China's allegedly "industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs' intellectual property," the ...
Trump's CISA nominee Sean Plankey withdraws from consideration
Sean Plankey, President Trump's nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has requested that the administration withdraw his nominat...
Bitwarden CLI npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack
The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to o...