Fika Jobs Raises $4M to Build Video-First Hiring Platform
Fika Jobs, a Stockholm-based startup, raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to develop a video-first hiring platform that uses AI agents to interview candidates.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber model surpassed Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurity benchmarks, scoring 85.6% on CyberGym and 39.5% on ExploitGym.
Cursor announced its first self-trained AI model, set for release in weeks, with compute usage up to 20 times higher than prior models.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 can generate single video clips up to 30 seconds long without post-stitching, according to the company.
Oracle disclosed 21,000 workforce cuts over 12 months, citing AI as a major factor in job eliminations, amid broader tech industry layoffs.
Meta has paused its employee tracking program after an internal security breach exposed data collected through the initiative to other workers, according to a company spokesperson.
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, confirmed AI loops are a real and significant development in the field, with agents now prompting other agents to write code.
Google has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents, replacing the generateContent API as of June 2026.
OpenAI announced Patch the Planet, a project offering free security consulting to open-source projects, with over 30 projects already participating.
Amazon is testing a Hindi version of its Alexa+ assistant in India, inviting users to join a beta program by June 22.
AWS and Vexcel developed a system to make aerial imagery searchable using natural language, achieving high F1 scores with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings.
Ampersend integrated Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments to enable AI agents to pay for services in under two weeks, cutting development time by months.