Nov 15, 2026
OpenAI Disbands Robotics Team as General-Purpose Models Take Over
OpenAI dissolved its standalone robotics research team on November 13, folding staff into its core research and applied divisions. The reason: GPT-6 Astra already outperforms specialized robot models on manipulation benchmarks, and the company is betting that embodied AI is just another application of general intelligence — not a separate discipline.
Nov 15, 2026
Perplexity Teammates AI Agents Arrive on Mac — Behind a $200 Paywall
Perplexity brought its Teammates AI agents to the Mac desktop app this week, but access requires the $200/month Max plan. The always-on agents, launched on the web a week earlier, can perform ongoing research, monitoring, and task execution independently.
Nov 15, 2026
Anthropic Wants You to Build on Claude — Then It Competes With You
Anthropic is aggressively expanding into enterprise software with Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and industry-specific tools, raising alarms among developers who say the company is following Amazon's playbook: watch what sells, then ship a competing version.
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Axonius Cuts 22% of Israeli Devs in AI-Driven Restructuring
Cybersecurity unicorn Axonius is cutting 66 jobs, including 22% of its Israeli developers, as it reshapes engineering around what its CEO calls a new AI-driven way of working. It is a concrete signal of how AI is starting to replace developer headcount.
Jun 14, 2026
Bay Area Tech Layoffs Hit 9,284 in 2026, Already Topping H1 2025
Bay Area tech companies have cut 9,284 jobs so far in 2026, already surpassing the roughly 4,700 cuts from the first half of 2025. The latest wave includes 370 positions across ServiceNow, Salesforce, Ubisoft, Quizlet, and Verily Health.
Jun 10, 2026
Salesforce Cuts Jobs for Third Time in Nine Months Despite $1.2B AI Revenue
Salesforce laid off employees for the third time in nine months, with cuts hitting teams tied to its Agentforce AI product. The layoffs come just one month after the company reported Agentforce annual recurring revenue surpassed $1.2 billion — a paradox that captures the tension between AI revenue growth and AI-driven job displacement.