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will.i.am taught 75 college students to build AI agents. The tech industry spent the same semester firing 73,000 people.

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]

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The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience

The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technologies and rising consumer expectations. It observes that AI orchestration layers are emerging as a […]

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Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore

Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawrence Wong took in February during the parliamentary debate on the 2026 Budget, and represents the most explicit commitment a major […]

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Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week. Scale AI has won a $500m contract from the US Department of Defense, Bloomberg reported […]

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Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre. Anthropic raised the rate limits on Claude Code and the Claude Opus […]

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Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General Catalyst, the seed lead, is back in. Generative AI has, in the space of about 30 months, […]

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Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre

The Beacon Point lease, anchored by an unnamed investment-grade tenant, lifts Hut 8’s contracted AI capacity to 597 MW and $16.8bn in base-term value. The Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-landlord pivot is now substantially complete. There is a particular kind of corporate transformation that is supposed to take years, and Hut 8 has done it in roughly 18 months. […]

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China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is, in venture-capital pricing, a particular kind of ascent that does not normally happen to […]

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Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.

Tuesday’s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody’s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall Street joint venture, the product side caught up. On Monday, Anthropic announced a $1.5bn […]

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