Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen were the last to go. Every researcher Musk recruited to co-found xAI has departed, weeks after he admitted it was "not built right".

Meta's Scriber and Blazer smart glasses target prescription wearers, moving AI from electronics stores into opticians serving the $223B eyewear market.

Swiss chip interconnect company Kandou AI raised $225M at a $400M valuation, betting its Chord signalling can keep copper viable against the optical transition.

With graduate underemployment at 42.5% & 245,000 tech jobs lost in 2025, the class of 2025 is turning to AI interview tools. Companies are fighting back.