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Laid-off Amazon staff face job searches stretching past a year, while colleagues who stayed absorb the workload. The human cost of tech's cuts.

BrainCo reads the brain through the scalp, not with implants. It is easier to scale than Neuralink, and much harder to regulate.

Executives say AI demand is bottomless and order books are full five years out. Chip stocks keep swinging anyway. The gap is expectations, not demand.

A survey finds 69% support forcing AI companies to hand 50% of their stock to a public wealth fund, as tech layoffs surge and AI capex climbs.

GPT-5.6 costs far more per token than DeepSeek V4 or GLM-5.2, but Chinese users say it burns a fraction of the tokens to finish the job.

US lawmakers introduced AI bills to fight childhood cancer and tax fraud, while also trying to rein in chatbots, deepfakes, and data centres.

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a security back door. ByteDance's Trae, Alibaba's Qoder, Tencent's CodeBuddy, and Zhipu's ZCode stand to gain.

A guide to the six best scar creams that work with modern beauty technology, from ultrasonic infusion devices and LED face wands to smart home sensors and AI-powered skin tracking apps.

The EU issued preliminary findings accusing Facebook and Instagram of addictive design, ordering Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll or face fines up to $12 billion.

Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI as the company merges safety and research under a new VP role. It's the latest in a long line of safety exits and team disbandments.