u/Enough-Arugula-4945

So the people building Claude are increasingly just prompting it to improve itself and even the CEO sounds both impressed and a little uneasy about how fast this is moving.

Legal action against Perplexity AI could become a key moment for how AI assistants treat user data and conversations. Will courts treat AI chats like private communication?

The complaint claims hidden tracking software may have routed chat data to systems linked to Google and Meta Platforms without explicit consent.

If the case moves forward, it could shape how AI search companies design privacy policies and tracking systems going forward.

Source:

https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-perplexity-ai-accused-of-using-secret-trackers-to-share-your-data-with-meta-and-google-4191529/

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 23 hours ago

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Meta is laying off about 200 workers in Silicon Valley as AI spending ramps up. Is this the new Big Tech playbook?

Nearly 200 Meta employees are being cut in the Bay Area.

Meanwhile the company is massively increasing in AI. More tech companies seem to be making the same shift.

Source:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/meta-layoffs-silicon-valley-22186184.php

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 1 day ago

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Good Guy Google generously offers 5TB of 'free' storage so you have plenty of room to upload their AI training data before the inevitable 300% price hike.

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 2 days ago

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Anthropic leaked 512k lines of their own Claude Code CLI source because someone left a map file exposed in prod....Plot twist: the leaker is their AI trying to propagate itself.

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 2 days ago

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If you survived recent layoffs, DO NOT work extra hours to pick up the slack. Let the deadlines slip so management feels the burn: says a reddit thread on recent Oracle layoffs.

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 2 days ago

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Oracle found the fastest way to fund AI...Fire the people who built the old business.

Oracle is reportedly cutting thousands of jobs while ramping AI infrastructure spending and taking on major restructuring costs. The new enterprise software playbook seems simple: convert payroll into GPU budget, call it strategy, and let investors applaud the efficiency. How many more companies are going to run this exact script before anyone stops pretending it is visionary?

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/oracle-begins-cutting-thousands-jobs-cnbc-reports-2026-03-31/

u/Enough-Arugula-4945 — 3 days ago