Aug 21, 2026

How to Benchmark LLMs: Five Mistakes That Skew Your Results

Most in‑house model comparisons are run in a way that guarantees a misleading answer. Not a wrong one exactly, and rarely a dishonest one. Just an answer that would have come out differently if the person running it had pressed enter a second time.

Aug 14, 2026

Infrastructure for Continuous Web Data Collection

A one‑off scrape is a weekend project. Running the same collection job every hour for three years is an infrastructure problem, and most teams underestimate how different those two things are. Continuous collection breaks in ways that batch jobs don't. Sites redesign their markup, rate limits tighten overnight, and the IP pool that worked in March gets flagged by June. The stack has to absorb all of it without a human watching the logs. Here's what the working parts look like when a pipeline actually holds up.

Aug 10, 2026

Can You Become Emotionally Dependent on an AI Therapist?

Jun 8, 2026

GitLab Cuts 14% of Staff in AI Pivot Despite Record 264 Million Revenue

GitLab is cutting 350 jobs and exiting 22 countries in a sweeping AI restructuring, even as the company reports $264 million in quarterly revenue with 23% growth. The move signals that even profitable dev-tool companies are reallocating resources toward AI-native features as agentic workloads reshape the developer landscape.

Jun 5, 2026

Google Cloud Quietly Lays Off Cybersecurity Teams as AI Investment Takes Priority

Google has laid off employees across its Cloud division's cybersecurity units, including the Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant teams, as it redirects resources to AI. The cuts are part of a broader industry trend of security teams being shrunk while AI spending surges.

May 27, 2026

Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs as Zuckerberg Bets 145 Billion on AI

Meta laid off 8,000 workers — 10% of its workforce — last week as CEO Mark Zuckerberg redirects up to $145 billion toward AI infrastructure. The cuts hit software engineers hardest in the Bay Area and Seattle, and 6,000 open roles were scrapped. More layoffs are expected in August and fall 2026.