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ServiceNow has been cutting several hundred jobs as part of a global restructuring, the latest sign of pressure on the software industry.A ServiceNow spokesperson said a “low single-digit” percentage of the company’s total head count has been affected by the cuts, which have happened over several months this year.ServiceNow ended 2025 with 29,187 employees, so the cuts likely total several hundred jobs.CEO Bill McDermott said at the start of this year that ServiceNow would end 2026 with the same head count as it started the year with. He’s also been pushing staff to reorganize their workflows to embrace new technology…
Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT’s public launch — was prescient. The startup’s tech helps enterprises distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly well-hidden bot traffic to help identify fake users and threats. “As sophisticated criminal VPNs, residential proxy networks, and anonymization infrastructure proliferate, organizations are increasingly operating with a critical blind spot: they can see the activity, but not the infrastructure behind it,” Insight’s Thomas Krane said in a written statement.…
Senior officials at some of the nation’s leading AI companies say it’s time for the federal government to find a way to put the brakes on AI development if it’s needed.”We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development,” reads an open letter signed by more than 1,100 AI workers from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.The signatories include two Anthropic cofounders, Jack Clark and Jared Kaplan; OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki; Meta’s chief scientist Shengjia Zhao; and Anca Dragan, who…
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data and tools — has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a cautionary tale for anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, especially to other tech companies, that increasingly have the engineering muscle to just build the thing themselves. In the suit, Runlayer describes an extensive product trial conducted by Rippling as a prospective customer, during which the MCP startup shared everything from its…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it. “We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,” he told Patrick O’Shaughnessy, the host of the Invest Like the Best podcast, while also “trying to figure out how we do that in a way that does not feel like regulatory capture for anyone and also does not feel like collusion among the frontier labs.” Altman has avoided signing on to past…
I’ve tested nearly 20 health and fitness trackers over the last two years, and whenever someone asks what wearable they should buy for everyday health monitoring, my answer is almost always the Oura Ring. It’s not suited for fitness coaching or real-time training goals, but it’s ideal for anyone who wants a discreet tracker that quietly supports your well-being by monitoring your sleep, recovery, activity, and overall health in the background.However, my recommendation always came with one caveat: The ring was a little bulky.But that downside is no more: In June, Oura launched the Oura Ring 5, a slimmer, lighter…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after Howard University notified hundreds of first-time-in-college students that their spots for the upcoming semester were no longer being held, other colleges and universities are stepping up to fill the gap for students who are scrambling to find other options.Keana Johnson is one of them. The 17-year-old was looking forward to starting classes next month at Howard University as the next step on her educational journey and a way out of the New York City shelter where she lives. She told The Associated Press Tuesday that she may consider the University of the District of Columbia…
Lilian Weng is getting techies talking about the demanding startup lifestyle.In her exit Slack, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder wrote that she’d “been in sickness more than what I’ve ever experienced in my life” over the prior seven months. “I’m constantly worried about my health,” she wrote.People from within and outside Thinking Machines applauded Weng. “We’ll miss you,” CEO Mira Murati replied. “I’m glad that you’re putting your health first.”Here’s how the AI community reacted.Han Xiao, Elastic VP of AIXiao sold his startup Jina AI to the search company Elastic. He sent Weng well-wishes — and sent a message about…
Ronica Spute always wanted to go back to college to get her bachelor’s degree, but life kept getting in the way. Two years ago, her path was finally cleared thanks to a Nevada program that allows certain Native American students to attend college virtually for free. As a member of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, the waiver along with a scholarship from her tribe allowed Spute, 57, to pursue a criminal justice degree at UNLV and graduate in two years. It was one year less than it took her to get an associate’s degree from the College of Southern Nevada…
NEW YORK (AP) — A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker’s ties to a company that produces hyper realistic sex bots.The Salamanca City Central School District’s board approved the nearly $60,000 purchase from Realbotix with visions that “Sally,” as the stationary robot with long brown hair has already been nicknamed, would enhance the education of high school students studying robotics and technology fields. “Having a difficult time programming an…