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Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs — 10% of Its Workforce — as 2026 AI Spending Hits $135B
Meta announced it will lay off approximately 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, starting May 20. The company is simultaneously closing 6,000 open positions and projecting 2026 capital expenditure of up to $135 billion for AI infrastructure.
Kubernetes v1.36 'Haru' Ships — Rootless Containers Now Native, HPA Scales to Zero
Kubernetes v1.36, codenamed Haru, landed on April 22 with 70 enhancements. Rootless containers via user namespaces are now stable and production-ready, MutatingAdmissionPolicy is GA, and HPA can now scale deployments all the way to zero replicas.
Google Unveils 8th-Gen TPU 8t and 8i at Cloud Next — Built for the Agentic AI Era
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced two purpose-built eighth-generation TPUs: TPU 8t for training at 9,600-chip superpod scale, and TPU 8i for low-latency agent inference. Both chips were co-designed with Google DeepMind.
Intel Q1 2026: Data Center Revenue Up 22%, Stock Surges 15% on AI Tailwind
Intel beat Wall Street expectations for the sixth consecutive quarter, with its Data Center and AI segment hitting $5.1B — up 22% year-over-year. AI-driven businesses now make up 60% of total revenue.
SpaceX Secures Option to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
SpaceX has secured the contractual right to acquire Cursor's parent company Anysphere for $60 billion later in 2026, preempting a $2 billion fundraising round the startup had been planning. The deal pairs Cursor's coding models with SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer and Elon Musk's broader strategy to merge SpaceX with xAI.
CISA Adds 8 Actively Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including Three Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Days
CISA added eight confirmed exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, setting an April 23 remediation deadline for federal agencies. Three of the eight target Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and allow unauthenticated remote access, credential theft, and malicious file upload.
Nvidia-Backed Vast Data Raises $1 Billion, Triples Valuation to $30 Billion
Vast Data closed a $1 billion Series F that tripled its valuation from $9.1 billion to $30 billion in a single round. The AI storage infrastructure company reports over $4 billion in cumulative bookings and $500 million in committed ARR, with positive free cash flow already in hand.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Signs Multi-Billion-Dollar Compute Deal With Google Cloud
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's AI startup has locked in a single-digit-billion infrastructure agreement with Google Cloud, gaining access to Nvidia GB300-powered VMs. The deal expands an existing relationship and cements Thinking Machines as one of Google's top AI infrastructure partners.
NVIDIA Donates GPU DRA Driver to CNCF and Commits $3.8M in Cloud Compute — Kubernetes Is Now AI's Control Plane
NVIDIA transferred governance of its Dynamic Resource Allocation driver for GPUs to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and elevated to Platinum membership. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Red Hat, and five others are co-governing the donation.
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