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At its annual Config conference, Figma announced Code Layers bringing executable React code onto the collaborative design canvas, alongside a natural-language AI plugin builder and Figma Motion, a native timeline-based animation system.
Backed by Bain Capital and $150 million in federal CHIPS Act funding, xLight wants to replace ASML's plasma-based EUV light source with a particle accelerator capable of reaching 2-nanometer wavelengths — and it has Pat Gelsinger as executive chairman.
Hackers used OAuth tokens stolen from market intelligence vendor Klue to access LastPass's Salesforce environment, stealing customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and support case records. Password vaults were not compromised.
The inference processor is OpenAI's first purpose-built silicon and its first move toward hardware independence. Early tests show better performance-per-watt than current alternatives, though it remains in the testing phase.
World Leaks — a rebrand of the Hunters International ransomware operation — posted 204,000 files allegedly including Apple iPhone quality inspection standards and Tesla manufacturing documents. Tata confirmed the breach but said operations are unaffected.
The Bezos-backed EV startup is betting that most Americans don't want a $60,000 tech-laden truck. Slate's minimalist pickup starts below $25,000, converts to a five-seat SUV, and is designed to be wrapped and modified.
The agreement covers HBM, DRAM, and SSD supply across Micron's data center portfolio and includes a strategic investment in Anthropic's latest funding round — positioning Micron as a key hardware partner for Claude's long-term compute scaling.
Claude Tag moves beyond the on-demand chatbot model: it lives inside Slack channels, monitors conversations proactively, and maintains shared institutional memory for every team member who has access.
Rockstar Games has confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders go live on June 25, 2026, with the game itself landing exclusively on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19.
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc. for roughly $4 billion, adding the startup's Mojo language and MAX inference platform to its expanding AI data center push.
Oracle's fiscal 2026 annual report became the clearest public admission yet that AI is directly reducing enterprise headcount at scale: 13 percent of the company's global workforce, $1.84 billion in severance costs, and an explicit warning that further reductions are coming as internal AI deployment grows.
A class-action complaint filed in federal court accuses six major fuel retailers of using Kalibrate's AI pricing algorithm to collectively inflate California gas prices by up to 22 cents per gallon — the first major test of the state's new AB 325 law banning shared algorithmic pricing.