Standard Chartered to Cut 7,000 Jobs Amid AI Push
Standard Chartered plans to eliminate more than 7,000 jobs as the bank accelerates automation and AI adoption across operations.
Standard Chartered plans to eliminate more than 7,000 jobs as the bank accelerates automation and AI adoption across operations.
Figma introduced a new AI design agent that can generate interfaces, edit designs, and automate creative workflows using natural language prompts.
Anthropic has hired prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy as the company accelerates efforts to compete with OpenAI and Google.
Google has unveiled a major redesign of Search powered by Gemini and AI agents, replacing traditional link-based results with interactive experiences, persistent AI assistants, and customizable mini apps.
Google has launched Antigravity 2.0 with a new desktop app, CLI tool, and SDK for building AI coding agents and automated workflows. The update expands Google’s push into agentic software development powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Google has introduced native Android app generation inside Google AI Studio, allowing users to build Kotlin-based Android apps through conversational AI workflows. The company also announced new AI-driven app discovery features tied to Gemini and the Play Store.
Google has introduced Gemini Omni Flash, a multimodal AI model for generating and editing videos from text, images, audio, and video inputs. The launch expands Gemini into AI-native video creation and conversational editing workflows.
Google has introduced the Gemini 3.5 family, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster AI model focused on coding and agentic workflows. The company says the model outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro in complex software engineering and AI agent benchmarks.
A U.S. jury ruled in favor of OpenAI in Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing the company of abandoning its nonprofit mission. The verdict removes a major obstacle to OpenAI’s potential IPO plans while intensifying the rivalry between Musk and Sam Altman.
Anthropic has acquired developer tooling startup Stainless to strengthen Claude’s integrations with APIs, tools, and external systems. The deal expands Anthropic’s push into agentic AI infrastructure and developer connectivity.
Google and Blackstone have formed a new AI infrastructure company focused on offering cloud access to Google’s TPU chips. The venture aims to expand alternatives to Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure with $5 billion in initial funding.
KPMG has formed a global alliance with Anthropic to deploy Claude across its Digital Gateway platform and workforce of more than 276,000 employees.
BNB Chain launched the BNBAgent SDK on mainnet, introducing infrastructure for autonomous AI agents with payments, identity, escrow, and memory.
Cursor has released Composer 2.5, an upgraded AI coding model built on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 checkpoint. The company says the model improves long-running coding workflows, instruction following, and reinforcement learning techniques for software engineering tasks.
Meta is moving thousands of employees into AI-focused teams while cutting 10% of its workforce as part of a broader organizational overhaul. The restructuring comes as new labor data shows AI-exposed occupations across the U.S. continue to lose jobs.
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