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Is Meta spying on me? (Blind)

• San-Ti 👾 (Baxter): Bro, Meta’s business model is spying on everyone. You guy’s build spying tool, tracking everyone even those not signed up for meta products.

• jimini (Google): What rock have you been living under? Meta has been spying on everyone for years.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this April 25, 2026 story through TechCrunch’s report, and the direct source used here is Citizen Lab’s Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors.

Citizen Lab says it uncovered two sophisticated telecom-surveillance campaigns that exploited the global signalling systems connecting mobile carriers, combining older SS7 pathways with Diameter traffic used in 4G and most 5G roaming. One campaign targeted a “VVIP” company executive across multiple 3G and 4G networks. Another used a specially formatted SMS carrying hidden SIM card commands intended to turn the victim’s device into a tracking beacon. The larger point is that both campaigns treated the mobile network itself as the surveillance platform.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this April 23, 2026 story in its Techmeme item, and the original article is OpenAI’s Introducing GPT-5.5.

OpenAI is positioning GPT-5.5 as more than a routine model refresh. The company says the model is better at carrying work forward with less micromanagement: understanding messy instructions, planning steps, using tools, moving between apps, checking results, and finishing longer tasks instead of stalling halfway through them. In practical terms, OpenAI is aiming GPT-5.5 at coding, browser-based research, data analysis, documents, spreadsheets, computer use, and early-stage scientific work.

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AI Inference Startup (Blind)

• ISPG88 (Cerebras Systems): Groq is furthest along for inference, especially in terms of software,, but we do more business and make more noise.

• rrua54 (Together AI): Also lambda, nebius.. Very competitive industry.

23-year-old cofounders left Amazon and Microsoft to build an AI startup. (Blind)

• 5t889ku5rg (Meta): Just looking at these guys tells me they are making another ChatGPT wrapper or other LLM wrapper.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this April 22, 2026 story in its Techmeme item, and the original article is OpenAI’s Making ChatGPT better for clinicians.

OpenAI is moving ChatGPT more directly into clinical work with a new product called ChatGPT for Clinicians. The product is designed for tasks like documentation, medical research, care consults, referral letters, prior authorization support, and patient instructions. It is initially free for verified individual clinicians in the United States, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists.

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Leave AI startup after 2 months? (Blind)

• AI_ML_FUN (New): Join us at Scale AI. We can’t hire fast enough!
• 4geff (Oracle): Definitely leave

How many of y’all quit to start ai startup? (Blind)

• .xxxxxxxx. (Tata Consultancy Services): I don’t think people with successful ai start-ups will be roaming around on blind.
• MagicBall (ex-AMD): It’s over for ai startups lol, build something people aren’t already crazy about.

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day (r/technology)

• loko3084: Tech companies treating humans like disposable apps delete, update profits, repeat.
• Neat_Trust3168: Who do they think is going to buy their shit if people don’t have money?

AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says (r/technology)

• VincentNacon: No… Greed, greed is the real reason why they’re doing the layoff. They wanted to save money, so they valued that more than the person… and ironically, more than their products.
• Just-Install-Linux: I’m in IT and just don’t see AI really taking over at all. We use it, but not in a way that it replaces people. I think the economy just sucks and companies avoid tanking their stock by saying it’s due to the increased productivity of AI instead of the reality of hard times.

Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban (r/programming)

• standing_artisan: Yes finally no more LLM related content. Thank you ! Please don’t be April fools’ joke !!!
• johnnybgooderer: LLMs are a part of software engineering now. And eventually everyone is going to be using them for programming in some capacity.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this story on its April 22, 2026 page, and the original article is TechCrunch’s SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B.

At the center of the story is a deal that is much bigger than a normal infrastructure partnership. TechCrunch reports that SpaceX told investors it is working with Cursor on a next-generation coding and knowledge-work AI effort, and that the agreement gives SpaceX a choice later this year: either pay Cursor $10 billion for the partnership or acquire the company for $60 billion. Even in a market that has become numb to giant AI numbers, that structure is startling. It treats the collaboration itself as enormously valuable while also creating a path to full vertical integration if the training work goes well enough.

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AI Push from Leadership (Blind)

• r87b: AI code is going to flop badly when bugs start coming in and nobody knows how to understand and debug the code
• AI or Cry: Exact same at Spotify. We have a mandate to use it as the primary way we write code

Coworkers pumping out so many PRs with Claude Code (Blind)

• curochfu: This sounds very dangerous if these unsupervised changes could impact clients’ accounts and financial data at Capital One
• XVOj31: It’s really stupid to join your coworkers in this practice. All you guys are doing is racing to work yourselves out of your own jobs. Each person who does this feels cute at first until they get laid off because the work has been completed. Do yall think the work supply your company needs done is infinite or something?

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice (r/technology)

• not-sure-what-to-put: “Here’s our useless AI that must be installed on your computer and integrated into all of your applications and browsers! Don’t talk to it!”
• Infini-Bus: We put it in Excel for when you wanna have some fun!

Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods (r/technology)

• ArchinaTGL: They can put whatever tag they want on me. I’m still not giving them my ID. Even if they told me “verify your ID or be banned” I’d just leave the site.
• sokos: Why not just ban all non-human accounts instead??

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers (r/technology)

• NJdestroyed: Maine electricity is already too expensive. This is for survival
• Boring_Pair_982: All states need to follow. The companies are already avoiding taxes, why should residents front the cost..

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this April 20, 2026 story, and the original post is Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding.

Moonshot is positioning Kimi K2.6 as more than a routine model refresh. The company says it is open sourcing a new model centered on long-horizon coding, agent-style execution, coding-driven design, proactive agents, and a research preview called Claw Groups. In practical terms, the launch is framed as an attempt to make open models feel capable not just in isolated code generation tasks, but across the broader workflow that increasingly defines modern AI-assisted software work: planning, tool use, extended sessions, parallel sub-agents, and end-to-end execution.

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Honestly, how far is the AI-induced layoff? (Blind)

• dumpy: For junior, 2-3 years. Mid-level, 3-5 years. Senior, 5+ years. You’ll always need some high level engineers, those probably won’t go away.
• beastmode$: If AI can do any coding task, nothing is stopping the laid off people from creating competitors to the big names. We will see a startup boom.

Layoff due to AI (Blind)

• n0pants: AI is just an excuse. When they say they are letting go employees because of AI they are trying to fool the investors and reduce the head count at the same time.
• TKTf28: AI is the last desperate attempt at keeping surveillance capitalism going and more importantly stopping a revolution triggered by the implosion of the whole economic and political system. 2024 is the end of the road for US dollar and its reserve currency status. War and layoffs are their way of saying we are willing to stay in power at any cost. They do not want to give up control. Generative AI is.a joke and a distraction.

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI (r/technology)

• realteamme: almost 50% of affected positions CLAIMED TO BE cut due to AI
• DarthJDP: Due to failing data center investments sucking up cashflow and income. Economy is terrible due to tariffs, war, and other mismanagement. AI is replacing exactly no one. Slop is replacing workers and delivering worse results.

AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says (r/technology)

• VincentNacon: No… Greed, greed is the real reason why they’re doing the layoff. They wanted to save money, so they valued that more than the person… and ironically, more than their products.
• Just-Install-Linux: I’m in IT and just don’t see AI really taking over at all. We use it, but not in a way that it replaces people. I think the economy just sucks and companies avoid tanking their stock by saying it’s due to the increased productivity of AI instead of the reality of hard times.

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email (r/cscareerquestions)

• Outrageous_Duck3227: 30k gone in an email so corpos can massage debt numbers, and we’re all job hunting in hell
• thisisjustascreename: Sounds like Oracle management are to blame for the misallocation of capital.

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ (r/technology)

• emotional_program0: Considering how poorly Norwegian politicians have been doing when it comes to IT, AI, etc, I wouldn’t. This campaign is from Forbrukerrådet which is an absolutely amazing organization, but they don’t really have any power (sadly!).
• Dear_Chasey_La1n: I don’t think the inaction on AI is per se a sign of weakness, but possibly long term when it all comes down a saviour. Look at Meta, dumping hundreds of billions in AI to the point they need to reduce staffing to support their own absurdity. How can anyone sit back and think that makes sense, investing in tech that’s dated in 3 years from now. Think about it, 100 billion is worth 0 in 3 years. Yet at no point is any AI company (fuck that very term, they are LLM’s at best) actually really profitable or successful. For Europe and Norway with it, to spend time to safeguard the society against AI is for the better, we should praise them for taking it slowly. There is nothing to gain from AI, but countless companies, pension funds, banks will loose money it will make 2008 look like spongebob losing bikinibottom.