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Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket have expanded beyond sports and elections to let users wager on whether major companies will cut jobs in upcoming quarters. Experts say the growing volume of these markets is worth watching as a potential signal of workforce sentiment.
Blink's battery-powered outdoor security camera, which the company says can run for up to two years on a single charge, is currently being sold at a discounted price. The deal was highlighted by ZDNET as part of its ongoing coverage of notable tech discounts and product recommendations.
At Hot Chips 2026, SK hynix's Jaesik Lee said hybrid bonding won't be ready in time for HBM4E and will instead debut with HBM5, as current HBM4 packages are already constrained by a 775-micron thickness ceiling matching standard logic wafers. To keep scaling within that limit, 16-Hi HBM4 stacks now use dies thinned to about 50 microns with half the interlayer gap of 12-Hi designs, while SK hynix continues using its existing MR-MUF bonding method through upcoming Nvidia Rubin-generation products.
Autostep, a San Francisco startup building a desktop app that identifies repetitive, costly tasks inside companies and recommends fixes via AI agents or process changes, is expanding its team. The company is recruiting AI and fullstack engineers along with a Chief of Staff as it scales its product. Autostep is part of Y Combinator's current batch and has backing from Neo and executives tied to companies like Cognition, Vanta, and OneTrust.
Google is rolling out version 2.0.0.965719431 of its Magnifier accessibility app with a new icon featuring a blue-to-purple gradient magnifying glass on a filled background, replacing the older blue design. However, the update appears to have broken the app's themed icon feature, showing a blank colored circle instead of the monochrome logo that normally matches a phone's Material You color scheme.
SteelSeries' Arctis Nova 3P gaming headset, a top pick recommended by WIRED, is currently discounted across several color options, with prices ranging from $90 down to $60 for the aqua version sold through Woot. The headset works across PC, consoles, phones, and Nintendo Switch, though buyers should note Xbox and PlayStation versions aren't fully cross-compatible.
At Hot Chips 2026, IBM revealed a next-generation processor built on a 2nm node with 11 cores, each running at a 5.7 GHz base clock. The chip's key innovation is a core that can natively execute both z/Architecture and AArch64 instructions, switching between them within nanoseconds, a result of IBM's April partnership with Arm.
Apple has pushed out RC 2 builds for macOS Tahoe 26.7 (build 25G224) and macOS Sequoia 15.8 (build 24H20) to developers, alongside the seventh developer beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate. The update follows last week's first release candidate, which leaked footage and details about upcoming AirPods with cameras using Visual Intelligence.
Christopher Luxon announced draft legislation that would prohibit children under 16 from using social media platforms in New Zealand. He said the move responds to harm affecting young people, following Australia's similar restriction that took effect in December 2025.
OpenAI now offers a cheaper ChatGPT Go tier worldwide for users who no longer need premium features, while also retiring GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026 despite earlier restoring it due to user demand. Separately, a Defense Department deal to deploy OpenAI's models on a classified network triggered a 295 percent single-day spike in US app uninstalls, prompting OpenAI to amend the agreement to bar domestic surveillance uses.
An independent game developer built Wyvern using a self-organized workforce of 50-60 AI agents, led by 18 long-running Claude Fable instances acting as department heads, supported by headless Claude Sol and Opus fleets for implementation and review. The setup burns roughly $122,000 a month in equivalent API usage, though the developer pays only about $5,000 out of pocket by exploiting Claude Max's flat-rate individual pricing across 21 accounts, running everything on a $25,000 secondhand 512GB Mac Studio.
Microsoft has shipped the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, a tool that helps coding agents systematically improve other AI agents. Users supply an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides iterative changes to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It installs directly into Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot via a simple CLI command.