A new Worker Accounting and Retraining Notification (WARN) report reveals that 606 LinkedIn employees were notified of permanent layoffs last week, which will go into effect on July 13.

The bulk of the layoffs (352) come from their Mountain View, California office, with another 66 remote employees in the same city.

Another 108 employees were laid off at their San Francisco office, plus another 59 at their Sunnyvale office and 21 in Carpinteria.

The layoffs were foreshadowed by an internal memo from LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero

“We need to reinvent how we work, with agile teams focused on our highest priorities, and by shifting investments toward areas such as infrastructure to fulfill our mission and vision over the long term. This requires hard prioritization and tradeoffs,” the memo stated.

“Today I’m sharing the difficult decision that I, along with our leadership team, have made to reduce roles across GBO, Marketing, Engineering and Product,” the CEO added.

A 5% cut of the company’s 17,500 employees would result in a cut of 875 jobs, though there is no indication that more could be shown the door at LinkedIn quite yet. The cuts come just weeks after LinkedIn announced in a third-quarter earnings statement that they posted a 12% growth in revenue year-over-year.

Source: New York Post

Google is bringing AI by default into their search box.

Intelligent Search Bar

• Expands for longer queries
• AI-powered query suggestions
• Follow-up questions in AI mode

Search Agents

• Navigate web for users
• Run in the background 24/7
• Track changes across the internet
• Alert users to new information/updates

Agentic Coding

• 'Mini-apps' within Search
• Custom dashboards and trackers
• Turns search results into interactive page

GitHub has since detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension.

GitHub has removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately, according to their claims.

Their current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with their investigation so far. They have moved quickly to reduce risk. Critical secrets were rotated yesterday and overnight with the highest-impact credentials prioritized first.

GitHub continues to analyze logs, validate secret rotation, and monitor for any follow-on activity. They have said that they will take additional action as the investigation warrants. They will publish a fuller report once the investigation is complete.

Source: GitHub

This is similar to when Yuri Milner offered to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner.

The deal gives fledgling AI startups guaranteed compute resources and significantly extends their runway by covering heavy API costs.

Some in the community have warned that taking these tokens could be risky. Because OpenAI will get a clear look at how the startups use the tokens, some fear the platform could copy promising ideas and integrate them into its own free or native offerings.

Source: Sam Altman

Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google.

Anthropic is gradually winding down Stainless’s general-purpose, hosted services. The startup's engine that automatically creates and updates SDKs will no longer be available to the wider market.

Existing clients will retain full rights and access to the SDKs they have already generated, allowing them to modify and maintain them.

The New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs; the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.

Source: Stainless

Now you can securely connect your financial accounts, see a dashboard of where your money is going, and ask ChatGPT questions grounded in your financial context – all while staying in control of your data.

To get started, open Finances from the sidebar in ChatGPT and select ‘Get started’ or start a conversation from anywhere in ChatGPT by saying ‘@Finances, connect my accounts’.

ChatGPT will then guide you through securely linking accounts through Plaid, with Intuit support coming soon. After you authenticate, ChatGPT will begin syncing and categorizing your data, which may take a few minutes.

Once your accounts are synced, you can see a dashboard that gives you an up-to-date view of where you stand across portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, upcoming payments, and more.

Beyond connected accounts, you can share important context about your financial life, like a mortgage, a savings goal, or a major purchase you’re planning for. For example, you might tell ChatGPT: “I’m saving up to buy a car early next year” or “I still owe my parents [X amount] for the loan they gave me.” ChatGPT can save that context to your Financial memories to inform future conversations.

That broader context is part of what makes this experience useful – instead of treating each question in isolation, ChatGPT can help connect the dots across your accounts, your goals, and what you’ve already shared, so the guidance is more personal and complete.

The vision for ChatGPT is to go beyond answering questions to help users take action towards improving their financial lives, and we’re working with trusted ecosystem partners like Intuit to do this. For example, a user could go from getting a credit card recommendation to understanding their approval odds and submitting an application, or from asking about tax implications of a stock sale to getting a trusted tax estimate and scheduling a session with a live, local tax expert, powered by Intuit and all inside ChatGPT.

Source: OpenAI

Browsers get the page you already ship. AI agents get clean markdown; no JS, no nav, no cookie banner. Picked at the edge by HTTP content negotiation, no duplicate URLs.

Dualmark was built and battle-tested at Dodo Payments before it was open-sourced. After rolling it out across the marketing site, AI agent traffic 5×'d in 60 days — without changing a single page of content.

We treated AI search as an infrastructure problem, not a content problem. Dualmark gave every page a markdown twin our existing stack could keep shipping. The crawlers found it, started reading it, and our agent traffic compounded from there. - The Dodo Payments engineering team

One install. One config. Every page gets a markdown twin and a conformance score. No content rewrite. No vendor lock-in.

Source: Dualmark

The ads landing page includes a way to sign up, ads documentation, and a video guide.

Reach people as they explore options, compare choices, and make decisions in ChatGPT, with relevant ads that fit naturally into the experience.

After you sign up, you'll be taken into Ads Manager, where you can create your account, create campaigns, and access step-by-step Help Center resources.

Source: OpenAI