An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $132,000. The increases run nearly 30% above the current minimums in each […]

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside the company rather than restructuring the one inside it. He has won […]

  The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically compromised. Hugging Face, the repository that hosts more than a million machine learning models used by virtually every AI company on the planet, has been found to contain hundreds of malicious models capable of executing arbitrary code on the machines of […]

  Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday. It reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss on Thursday. On Friday, a data centre overheated in Virginia and the exchange went dark for seven hours. The company that told its remaining engineers that AI could do weeks of work in days spent the end of the week […]

The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams, co-founder of the Black Eyed Peas and founder […]

A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing from the people who decide what gets published. The session, titled “The Startup Media […]

Spotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.  The AI DJ feature is an interactive AI-powered DJ that functions as a radio […]

A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data centres in northern Virginia was running hot enough to disrupt customer workloads, and that engineers […]

The digital marketplace with Polish origins, which has scaled to nearly $400m in annual GMV without external funding, brings in one of Central Europe’s most experienced private-equity operators to guide its next phase of M&A and global expansion. After 16 years of organic growth, G2A is letting an outsider into the room. The Polish-founded digital […]

Global HR is no longer just about compliance. It’s becoming an operational infrastructure layer for distributed companies. As a seasoned HR professional, I used to think working for an international company was a peak career flex. Unfortunately, in 2026, the reality can be far less glamorous. Picture running an HR team for a global company […]