Tech companies thought that AI coding tools would let them cut engineering teams and build software faster and cheaper. Instead, AI-generated code created new problems with reliability, security, and maintenance. Today, we’ll discuss why Big Tech is secretly rehiring the same software engineers that were supposed to be replaced by AI
Last year, Microsoft announced its Majorana quantum computing chip, which supposedly used topological qubits to make calculations. The problem was that the paper published alongside the announcement didn’t show any evidence for those claims. Now they’ve announced a new quantum chip. Is it any better this time?. Let’s take a look.
In June 2026, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage in San Francisco at Build 2026 and unleashed a series of announcements so massive that the entire tech market reeled. The company had quietly spent roughly $190 billion in capital expenditures building data centers across the planet, buying custom chips, and wiring up infrastructure for a world that runs on AI — and Wall Street punished them for it, sending Microsoft stock down nearly 24 percent in the first half of the year, the worst stretch since the dot-com crash. The keynote revealed four bombshells: Scout, an always-on autopilot AI agent that lives
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