27 May 2026
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure 03 humanoid robot. Screenshot from a Brett Adcock tweet. John Koetsier Figure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry) because a key investor in Figure’s series C investment round just decided to bring in Junior to help with distribution and logistics.
27 May 2026
Silicon Valley VC Backs Startup That Gathers AI Datasets From Head-Mounted Cameras on Workers in India
A video went viral in India about a month ago appearing to show a vast number of garment workers wearing tiny, head-mounted cameras while they worked in a dreary-looking factory.
27 May 2026
AI training data provider Human Archive raises $8.2M
AI training data provider Human Archive raises $8.2M Artificial intelligence training data provider Human Archive Inc. today announced that it has raised $8.2 million in funding.
26 May 2026
Anthropic releases security-guidance plugin for Claude Code to catch vulnerabilities in real time
Anthropic just shipped a tool that essentially acts as a security-conscious co-pilot sitting inside your terminal. The company’s new security-guidance plugin for Claude Code automatically reviews code as it’s generated or edited, flagging common vulnerabilities before they ever make it to production.
26 May 2026
Meta lays off nearly 1,400 Washington employees in latest tech workforce cut
Meta ’s artificial intelligence overhaul is now hitting one of the country’s largest tech corridors, with the Facebook parent company preparing to cut nearly 1,400 workers across Washington state.
26 May 2026
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.” “Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said.
26 May 2026
SpaceX-Tesla merger chatter reignites as Musk pushes rocket company towards Nasdaq
As Elon Musk prepares to lead a second trillion-dollar company into the public market, a move that will likely put him in charge of two of the 10 most valuable U.S. enterprises, chatter is building that Musk's ultimate goal is to combine the entities into one.
26 May 2026
Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1
SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics.
26 May 2026
Will Marvell Technology Stock Keep Soaring as Q1 Results Approach?
Marvell Technology ( MRVL - Free Report ) ) has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure boom, with its stock delivering massive gains of more than 200% over the past year after rallying over 140% year to date. Investors are now turning their attention to Marvell’s Q1 earnings report, wondering whether the company can sustain its momentum amid…
