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In today's Techpresso:
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💼 Amazon cuts 16000 jobs amid AI push 📱 Internal messages calling IG a drug could doom Meta 🏴☠️ Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ 🔍 Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine 💻 Google leaks Android desktop interface for PCs 🔬 OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists 🎁 + 19 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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💼 Amazon cuts 16000 jobs amid AI push
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- Amazon confirmed it is cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide, bringing the total number of positions eliminated since October to approximately 30,000 as the company works to reduce layers and remove bureaucracy.
- The layoffs were accidentally revealed through a draft email from an AWS senior vice president, with the internal code name "project Dawn," before being officially confirmed by Amazon's head of people experience.
- While pandemic overhiring is the main reason for the cuts, Amazon has acknowledged that AI adoption plays a role, with CEO Andy Jassy stating the company expects to reduce its corporate workforce due to efficiency gains from AI.
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📱 Internal messages calling IG a drug could doom Meta
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- Internal company messages describing Instagram as addictive like a drug could seriously hurt Meta's defense in the first major trial over social media's alleged harms to children.
- A 19-year-old plaintiff claims Meta and YouTube caused her depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidality through features like infinite scroll and autoplay that she started using at ages 6 and 11.
- TikTok and Snapchat both settled just before the trial began, leaving Meta and YouTube to face a jury in a case that could set precedent for hundreds of similar lawsuits.
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🏴☠️ Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’
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- Mozilla, the nonprofit behind Firefox, is creating a network of startups, developers, and public interest technologists to make AI more open and trustworthy while challenging dominant companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Mozilla plans to deploy roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support mission-driven tech businesses, though this amount is tiny compared to OpenAI's $60 billion and Anthropic's $30 billion in funding.
- Mozilla Ventures has invested in more than 55 companies, including AI startups like Trail and Transformer Lab, though some founders say the "rebel alliance" label feels limiting for their goals.
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🔍 Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine
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- Yahoo is launching Scout, a generative AI feature for its search engine that takes a different visual approach than competitors like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude by using more color, emojis, and web-style hyperlinks.
- Scout places links directly in the text rather than as citations at the end, which feels more web-native and could encourage users to click through to actual websites more often than other AI search tools.
- Yahoo powers Scout using Anthropic's Claude for AI and Microsoft's Bing for search, raising questions about whether the company can build a lasting advantage beyond its brand and proprietary data from Yahoo Sports, Finance, and Weather.
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💻 Google leaks Android desktop interface for PCs
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- A Google bug report accidentally revealed the first look at Android's desktop interface for PCs, showing screenshots from an internal build running on Chromebook hardware.
- The interface, codenamed "Aluminum OS" and running Android 16, features a taller status bar designed for large screens, with time, date, battery, Wi-Fi, and a Gemini icon.
- The desktop version includes Chrome's Extensions button, which currently only exists on desktop browsers, plus split-screen multitasking and window controls similar to ChromeOS.
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🔬 OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists
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- OpenAI released Prism, a free scientific workspace program for ChatGPT users that works as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, deeply integrated with GPT-5.2.
- The tool lets researchers use GPT-5.2 to assess claims, revise prose, search prior research, and access the full context of their project, while also integrating with LaTeX and converting whiteboard drawings into diagrams.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT gets 8.4 million messages weekly on hard science topics, and executives compared Prism to coding tools like Cursor and Windsurf, hoping it will do for science what AI did for software engineering.
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Google now lets users jump from AI Overviews into AI Mode conversations
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Chip giant ASML posts record orders and upbeat 2026 guidance as AI boom continues
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China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia's H200 AI chips, sources say
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UK wants to give web publishers a 'fairer' deal with Google's AI overviews
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Snap is spinning off its AR glasses into a separate business
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Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing
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Zoom Is the First Casualty in France’s War on American Big Tech
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Astronomers discover over 800 cosmic anomalies using a new AI tool
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A Meta deal just turned this 175-year-old company into a linchpin of the AI data center boom
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Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks
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Google Deepmind gives Gemini 3 Flash the ability to actively explore images through code
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🧰 Trending tools
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kuku: a native, local-first markdown editor for Mac that stores plain .md files locally with wikilinks, backlinks, and an AI agent that edits with reviewable diffs.
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Free unlimited eSign for founders: eliminates per-document fees by letting you draft contracts with AI assistance, review, and collect legally binding signatures without usage limits or trials.
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The HN Arcade: a curated directory of small games that developers have shared on Hacker News, maintained as a searchable collection.
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Kimi K2.5: a multimodal AI model that handles code, visual understanding, and agent tasks with switchable thinking modes for complex problem-solving workflows.
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Prism: a free collaborative writing workspace for scientists that integrates GPT-5.2 to help draft, edit, and organize research documents more efficiently.
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What's in that direction?: a compass app that shows nearby points of interest in the direction you're pointing, helping curious travelers discover obscure locations while exploring unfamiliar areas.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Removing Attention Mechanisms From Transformers: transformers can work without their signature attention layers by replacing them with simpler averaging operations, cutting computational costs while maintaining performance.
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