Meta begins 8,000 job cuts globally, starting with Singapore layoffs

OpenAI for Singapore launches a multi-year AI partnership to expand deployment, build local talent, and support businesses and public services with AI.

For the past several years, application security has been organized around a relatively stable model: developers write code, pipelines build and test it, and runtime controls attempt to catch what slips through. Each stage had its own tools, its own teams, and its own assumptions about where risk lived. That model is breaking. At RSAC 2026, the most interesting startups weren’t just adding “AI” to existing categories. They were responding to a more fundamental shift: AI is compressing the software development life cycle, blurring the lines between writing code, deploying it, and operating it. In many cases, those steps are now happening simultaneously, or being driven by the same AI agents. The result is not just more software. It’s a collapse of security boundaries. And when those boundaries collapse, so do the traditional control points security teams have relied on. Across the early-stage and next-stage exhibitors at this year’s conference, a familiar pattern is picking up speed. Se

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Primer closed a $100M Series C to bring AI to every payment decision, backed by Sofina, Peak XV, Accel, ICONIQ, Tencent, and Speedinvest.

Crypto layoffs deepen as Meta begins AI-led cuts, while Kraken and Coinbase also trim staff in a wider push for leaner teams across 2026 now

Approximately 49,000 workers were laid off in 2026 as companies adopted a more AI-reliant business model.

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, in the latest sign of growing concern about the social and ethical impacts of AI. The engineer distributed flyers around Google DeepMind’s London offices, which read “Google provides military AI to forces committing genocide” and asking colleagues: “Is your paycheck worth this?” He also emailed colleagues about Google’s 2025 decision to drop a promise not to pursue weapons that harm people and surveillance violating international norms and urged them to unionise. Continue reading...

US president’s stream of fake imagery on Truth Social is reshaping the boundaries of political communication