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Meta lays off roughly 700 employees across five divisions while weighing far deeper cuts of up to 20 percent of its workforce to offset AI infrastructure spending that could reach $135 billion this year.

OpenAI discontinues its Sora video generation app, ends a three-year Disney licensing deal, and redirects compute to a new model codenamed Spud ahead of a potential IPO.

Internal documents reveal DHS has deployed over 200 AI use cases across immigration enforcement while privacy assessments have dropped to zero in 2026, alarming civil liberties groups and a federal judge who found ICE violated 96 court orders in one month.

Mountain View startup Sunday has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to bring its Memo household robot from demos to real-world deployment, with beta units heading to 50 homes by late 2026.

Carbon Robotics tops $100M in revenue, Solinftec deploys 100-plus autonomous sprayers across U.S. farms, and Ecorobotix sells its 1,000th precision unit as agricultural robots enter commercial scale.

February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.

Senators Cantwell and Moran introduce federal legislation to fund AI scholarships, create community college Centers of Excellence, and train one million workers, while a Stanford review finds only 20 rigorous studies on AI in K-12 and states introduce competing bills to regulate classroom use.

The 2026 Farm Bill would subsidize 90 percent of precision agriculture adoption costs and let the tech industry set standards, drawing criticism over corporate control of farming.

Federal Reserve and Harvard studies reveal AI is simultaneously eliminating entry-level positions and boosting wages for experienced workers, creating a bifurcated labor market as tech layoffs surpass 45,000 in early 2026.

Seattle-based XBOW raised $120 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth and Northzone, crossing the $1 billion valuation mark as it scales an AI platform that autonomously discovers and validates software vulnerabilities.

Meta postpones its next-generation Avocado AI model by at least two months after benchmarks show it trailing rivals, raising questions about the company's $135 billion AI investment.

Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500M Series A led by Accel and a16z at $2B valuation, challenging humanoid robot trend with AI-powered industrial automation.