eBay to lay off 800 staff
February 26, 2026
eBay is cutting around 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees. “We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which
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How to avoid bad hires in early-stage startups
February 26, 2026
This week on TechCrunch’s founder-focused podcast, Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Sarah Lucena, the CEO and co-founder of Mappa, a behavioral intelligence platform that uses voice AI to decode human behavior in less than 60 seconds. Lucena got the idea
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
February 26, 2026
Salesforce pulled out all the stops to convince investors that the AI revolution won’t be its death when it announced fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Salesforce reported a solid quarter of
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
February 25, 2026
Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing. Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software designed to make industrial robots
OpenAI COO says ads will be ‘an iterative process’
February 25, 2026
Last month, OpenAI said that it is going to introduce ads to users of the free and Go tiers in ChatGPT. The company rolled out ads to U.S.-based users earlier
Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows
February 25, 2026
Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey. The researchers
