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Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door: Cognition is also laying off 30 employees. Those who don't take the buyout are expected to work 80+ hour weeks. Read More

Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service: The service features a library of nearly 10,000 hours of content from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, and FilmRise, alongside select Roku Original titles. Read More

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it: In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple matter. Read More

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