General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees – in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they were first reported by Bloomberg News.
In an emailed statement, the automaker framed the layoffs as a…
Digg is back from the dead. Again.
Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found…
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers - Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them
May 12, 2026
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and they’re too expensive.
Most of the players are hoping that SpaceX’s…
Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that. We update it regularly as the field evolves, so consider it…
As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31.
One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like…
Cloudflare on Thursday joined a growing list of tech companies – including Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon – that have reported increased revenue alongside massive layoffs, attributing both trends to their use of AI.
Cloudflare, which provides internet security and…
When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it had discovered thousands of high-severity bugs that would need to be fixed before it could be made public.
Now, security researchers for Mozilla’s Firefox browser are providing a closer…
Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don’t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice.
Moonshot…
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole…
When companies are looking for opinions or advice on a project, they tend to go to LinkedIn or use expert networks such as GLG, Third Bridge, or AlphaSights. But they often don’t find quality inputs, despite their searches.
Today, these sites ask experts to fill in a form based on their job title, which is then used to match them with companies in need of their help.
London-based Ethos thinks…
