Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only tha [...]

A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Mo [...]

Substack adds AI detection to fight ‘Claudefishing’

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detecto [...]

Hire in 150+ countries without setting up a single entity

You have found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, the experience, and the enthusiasm. There is just one problem: they are in a country where you have no legal entity. No tax registration. No [...]

Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts

Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation dete [...]

Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching

Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. [...]

Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actu [...]

Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen

Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firm [...]

What is the Retro app for and how do you use it?

Let's look at how to use the Retro app, whether it's free and whether it can compete with other social media apps. [...]