Month: March 2026
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC News, and The Information. The job cuts impact workers on Meta’s recruiting, social media, and sales teams, along with Reality Labs, the division that develops the company’s smart glasses and virtual…
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Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes
Spotify is beta-testing a new feature called Artist Profile Protection that lets artists review releases before they go live. Sometimes songs end up on the wrong artist pages because of metadata mixups or shared names. But increasingly, artists have been targeted by impostors and AI-generated fakes. Profile Protection offers a…
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Forget the RAM crisis — storage prices are spiralling, and processors could be next, as gaming PC maker warns ‘CPU shortage is getting more serious’
Processors could be in line for major price hikes Rumor has it that Intel and AMD are increasing CPU prices due to a supply shortage, and this could end up as serious as the situation with RAM Storage prices are also heading up sharply, and device makers are having to…
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Razer’s new Blade 16 gaming laptop has an Intel Panther Lake chip and very fast RAM
Razer is giving its Blade 16 gaming laptop a speed and battery boost for 2026. The high-end gaming laptop keeps the same thin chassis and RTX 50-series GPU options as last year’s model, but it’s now making the switch from AMD to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H “Panther Lake”…
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The surprise hit Nex Playground is the latest console to get a price hike
Over the past six months, the cost of key components — especially memory (DDR) and storage (eMMC) — has risen significantly across the industry. These increases are driven in part by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure, which is reshaping global supply and demand for these parts. You may have…
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AI’s got Talent: In a weird twist, someone just launched a marketplace for AI Agents that’s not far off a human-powered job board
Agentalent.ai lets companies hire AI agents to handle defined business functions Enterprises can evaluate agent profiles before selecting them for specific operational roles Agents undergo authentication, authorization, and capability checks prior to deployment monday.com has introduced Agentalent.ai, a platform which allows organizations to post roles and select AI agents to…
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