#tech-companies
YES.
A good, very basic overview of what is happening with tech companies.
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October 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Always recording still meets the definition of ‘recording’...

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording - don't do it

www.theverge.com/column/10056...
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.
www.theverge.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
One thought I'll share right now: I'm DAMN happy that I'm not necessarily IN the "Tech Industry" or one of these companies and I have the latitude and space to figure out how to deal with these changes on my own, instead of having a bunch of half-baked "thought leader" methodologies rammed down […]
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October 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
It's more than the global annual revenues of the world's top 10 tech companies. Apple. Amazon. Google. All of them. So what the fuck are they actually accomplishing with it?

#Atheism #NoCapZone #ChurchFinances
October 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Meta社や、OpenAIの会長が関わるSierraという会社が協力して、新しいルール作りを進めているそうです。

AIのボットを使ってお仕事をする際に、混乱が起きないように、もっとスムーズにやり取りができるようにするためだといいます。

AIを活用する仕組みが整うことで、これからのビジネスがより便利で、扱いやすいものになっていくのかもしれませんね。
www.cnbc.com #news
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.
www.cnbc.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I think it’s much funnier if you’re both into games and have worked for tech/software companies. Even then it’s wildly variable from episode to episode, some I found absolutely hilarious, a few quite moving, lots of them were simply filling time while I ate dinner.
October 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
NEW: We're urging the California Civil Rights Department to investigate Criteria Corporation, which develops technology that companies use to make hiring decisions.

This tech must not be allowed to discriminate against applicants based on their disability, race, and sex.
October 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Enabling Tech is the largest CDR employment category: 7,707 employees across 969 companies, about eight per firm. The supplier base is bigger than the producer base. Either a deep supply chain, or a sign that selling shovels pays better than digging. The data cannot say which.
October 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Leading AI companies have for years worked with a cluster of nonprofits concentrated in the Bay Area’s AI safety community.

But President Trump’s tech-world allies say the work of auditing AI should be taken on by America’s largest consulting firms.
wapo.st/4zgo5qj
They told the world AI was dangerous. Now Trump’s allies are coming for them.
The Trump administration and its allies are embracing some ideas championed by AI safety advocates, while also working to marginalize the movement in Washington.
wapo.st
October 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This is not a healthy economy when companies do this to employees

A mere 8 yrs ago work places were acknowledging that encouraging supportive atmospheres yielded higher quality output

It was true then and is now

$billionaire Tech bro toxicity is killing us

www.businessinsider.com/captialism-s...
America's new sink-or-swim era of work is here
Capitalism is alive and well in the private sector, where many employers have higher expectations and care less about loyalty.
www.businessinsider.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
They build the infrastructure, ai bubble pops, tech companies disappear, military contractors take ownership.
October 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Tech companies have been different and always broke the rules though. YouTube took off because users could pirate family guy, LinkedIn would trick people into sharing their contact lists and spamming everyone, Uber ran illegal unlicensed taxi services, Spotify built their “beta” with pirated mp3s…
October 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/m...
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.
www.cnbc.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
"Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a handful of other companies are publishing what they’re calling a 'personal agent protocol.' It’s an open standard meant to dictate how artificial intelligence agents can interact with businesses."
www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/m...
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.
www.cnbc.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots
Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.
cnb.cx
October 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
These 10 companies are working on everything from mobile flood barriers and semi-solid-state batteries to compressed-CO₂ energy storage and next-generation nuclear reactors. They also reflect the biggest shifts in climate tech—including the surging energy demands of AI data centers.
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Each year, the MIT Technology Review team puts together a list of some of the most promising climate tech companies in the world.
trib.al
October 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
💼 Meta cut Claude users in half while Microsoft dropped per-employee AI budgets from $100K to $10K.

Both pullbacks land right before Anthropic's IPO, testing how real enterprise AI revenue really is.

Meta cuts Claude users by 50% as Microsoft slashes AI budgets from $100K to $10K per employee ahead of Anthropic IPO - Tech Startups
Meta and Microsoft are pulling back on their employees’ use of Anthropic’s Claude, turning two of the AI startup’s biggest corporate customers into an early test of how much of the AI boom survives once companies start watching the bill. At Meta, the number of employees using Claude Code has fallen
techstartups.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM