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The venture is reportedly in talks to raise approximately $200 million at a valuation of $2 billion, with Lightspeed leading the funding round.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been sued by dozens of employees who allege the tech giant used artificial intelligence tools to unfairly target workers on protected leave for mass layoffs.

The chart, posted by creator Simon Willison on July 13, shows a massive spike in code changes coinciding with the releases of several cutting-edge AI models.

Microsoft’s early 2026 rollout of AI-powered command-line coding agents—Anthropic’s Claude Code and GitHub’s Copilot CLI—has been analyzed in a new study, revealing that adoption spread primarily through social networks and that users who adopted the tools merged approximately 24% more pull requests than they otherwise would have.

OpenAI’s new prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol marks a significant departure from previous advice, urging users to “stop over-prompting” and embrace leaner system instructions.