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New York reached 394,300 tech workers in 2025, passing the Bay Area for the first time in CBRE’s survey. Yet San Francisco still leads the wider scorecard and AI hiring. The split between those measures shows how finance-sector demand is redrawing tech employment without displacing Silicon Valley.
OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT read, search, draft and send iMessage, SMS and RCS conversations on Apple-silicon Macs. Every send requires approval by default, but users can grant persistent permission to a specific chat. OpenAI also documents a Full access problem that can prevent
A segment reorganization put a price on Alibaba's Qwen model program for the first time. The new AI Labs unit lost RMB13.86 billion in adjusted EBITA last quarter, about 2.5 times what the AI Cloud business earned, while capital spending more than doubled analyst forecasts.
California companies announced $366 billion in venture funding through August 20, nearly double the old record.
Ordinary RAM may get cheaper after 2027. High-memory GPUs run on a different price clock because buyers also pay for scarce capacity, CUDA compatibility and product segmentation.
A native Mac workspace turns Git worktrees into control surfaces for coding agents, but its early traction figures leave the adoption question open.
Meta is buying hundreds of millions of dollars in annual AI-model access through Microsoft while developing models and considering a rival cloud service. Foundry’s growth shows the scale, but neither company confirmed the spending, token use, pricing or contract terms. What keeps it together?
California companies announced $366 billion in venture funding through Aug. 20, nearly twice the state’s previous record. OpenAI and Anthropic supplied about 59% of the total, while seed funding fell and first-time fund formation headed for its weakest year since 2016.
Anthropic booked $11.6 billion last quarter against OpenAI's $6.7 billion, and Marvell handed Google a $12.2 billion warrant.
Former Facebook engineering director Arturo Béjar told an Oakland jury that Mark Zuckerberg created a culture where engagement outranked child safety. He described performance incentives tied to user activity and protections that users had to enable themselves. Meta denies deception and says its too
Vercel open-sourced a security harness that turns coding agents loose on your entire codebase, then published a benchmark showing the best model finds just 30.7 percent of known bugs. That ceiling is the story. Defenders need to catch most of what is there. Attackers need one.
Senate Republicans sent AI companies a private memo warning that data centers are costing them Ohio, and that repairing the industry's reputation is the industry's job. The public polling that exists names inflation first and reports no figure on data centers at all.
Oklo raised $1.85 billion selling stock in the first half of 2026 to fund its first Aurora reactor, a plant whose total cost it has not published and is still negotiating with contractor Kiewit. The stock trades near $41 against an October 2025 peak of $193.84.
Claude Code can operate inside DaVinci Resolve Studio. The useful question is which jobs it handles well, and where the editor still has to intervene.
