Nike is starting 2026 with another round of layoffs, this time targeting 775 positions at its US distribution centers. This marks the third consecutive year the sportswear giant has cut jobs, signaling a deep and ongoing operational shift.
Moloco, an AI-driven advertising technology company, is reportedly in early talks for an initial public offering. The firm was valued at over $2 billion in a 2023 secondary sale and has been profitable for five years. This comes as the IPO market shows signs of renewed life.
In a major strategic pivot, Blue Origin is pausing all flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. The company says the halt will last “not less than two years” as it redirects focus to its lunar lander program for NASA.
Linwei “Leon” Ding, a 38-year-old ex-Google engineer, was found guilty of economic espionage and trade secret theft. He stole details on Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and other tech to help launch AI startups in China.
Polish cybersecurity officials say a Russian spy agency tried to destroy data at dozens of energy facilities in a “purely destructive” attack. The timing, during a winter snowstorm, was particularly sinister. This isn’t just espionage anymore—it’s digital arson.
Apple’s AI division is hemorrhaging talent, with at least four more researchers and a senior Siri executive leaving. The departures highlight internal turmoil and a controversial reliance on Google’s technology.
A new approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is turning heads by abandoning vector search entirely. The PageIndex framework treats long documents like a game board, using LLM-driven tree search to navigate structure. The result? It solves complex queries where traditional semantic similari
Anthropic is expanding its new Cowork tool with plugins designed to automate specialized tasks across a company. The feature, now available to all paying Claude users, aims to capture more enterprise business by streamlining department-specific work.
Researchers have built a deterministic single-photon source that operates at the ideal telecom wavelength. It achieves a record 92% two-photon interference visibility, solving a decade-old problem for quantum networks.
Oracle’s aggressive push into AI infrastructure is hitting a major financial roadblock. With US banks retreating, the company is scrambling for cash and may cut up to 30,000 jobs to fund its expansion. It’s a desperate move with huge risks.
