Over the past 18 months, the global tech sector has undergone a dramatic contraction. Once renowned for rapid hiring and generous compensation, major players such as Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have executed waves of layoffs. According to Crunchbase’s latest summary, over 315,000 tech workers lost their jobs from late 2022 through April 2025, with…

Nvidia’s H200 chip—a high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) tailored for artificial intelligence workloads—has become a pivotal factor in the global semiconductor and AI arms race. With tensions mounting between the U.S. and China over strategic technologies, Nvidia’s reported efforts to ship adapted versions of its H200 chip to China have sparked intense scrutiny. These efforts…

Onebrief, a rising defense-technology company seeking to modernize military decision-making, announced a landmark $200 million Series B funding round this week. The round, led by EQT Ventures with participation from previous investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Bloomberg Beta, positions the company as one of the most well-capitalized startups in the U.S. defense tech ecosystem. The…

With nearly two billion users worldwide, Gmail remains the most popular web-based email platform by a wide margin. But as Google subtly evolves its monetization model, a pressing question faces users in early 2025: Should they stick with the free version or move to one of the paid tiers of Google Workspace? Google’s recent campaign…

The idea of a lasting, global peace brokered not by diplomats or deterrents, but by artificial intelligence, once belonged to the realm of science fiction. Yet the notion of “Pax Silica” — a term popularized following a 2020-era U.S. policy concept that envisioned AI-enabled stability — is rapidly reshaping as political tensions, industrial competition, and…

Google’s recent decision to pause the rollout of its AI-powered search summaries—known as “AI Overviews”—comes amid rising scrutiny about the system’s reliability, particularly in domains where misinformation could carry real-world risks. Health-related queries, long among the most sensitive categories in search behavior, are at the heart of this temporary halt. Following a Guardian investigation published…