Technology
Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs. The Memo Names Layers, Not AI.
Uber's 3,300-job cut comes with a memo that counts layers and micro-teams and never says AI. What it measured, what it skipped, and why 1% remote follows.
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AI
The State of AI on Labor Day 2026
Four new models in one week, a website built in an afternoon, and a VPN ticket closed by script: where AI stands on Labor Day 2026.
AI
GPT-6 Astra Arrives With a Focus on Finishing the Job
OpenAI's new flagship targets complex work across apps. Its staged rollout brings stronger coding, higher token prices, and a harder oversight problem.
Healthcare IT
ChatGPT for Healthcare Reaches Epic—Read Only
OpenAI's enterprise workspace can now read authorized Epic charts through FHIR R4 and OAuth. The read-only limit is the point.
AI
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3: Fewer Calls, Longer Leashes
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 cuts tool calls 20% and tokens 25% for agentic coding, holding prices flat while max reasoning waits on safety tests.
AI
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash: Frontier Coding at Workhorse Cost
Google DeepMind debuts Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, delivering frontier coding and cybersecurity gains at $0.75 per million input tokens.
AI
Fable 5.1: Cheaper to Run, Fewer False Flags, and It Wrote This Post
Claude Fable 5.1 keeps Fable 5's list price, cuts cache reads 75%, loosens cyber safeguards, and is the first Claude model whose text carries a watermark.
Technology
'Backwards and Poor': Trump Picks a Side in the Data Center Revolt
Trump told communities fighting AI data centers to 'let Data Reign' — against Gallup majorities, a GOP governor's freeze, and his own party's Ohio polling.
Technology
Five Hours and Counting: One Auth Config Takes Down Microsoft 365
One authentication failure has degraded Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Purview, and Defender since 11:08 AM EDT — no fix and no ETA as of publication.
AI
Nvidia's $12.9B Run at Hugging Face Puts the AI Commons in Play
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Nothing is signed, and the neutrality of open AI's default hub is now the question.