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AMD is bracing for a rougher second half of the year, and memory is the culprit. CEO Lisa Su confirmed during the company's first quarter earnings call that a DRAM supply crisis is expected to drag down PC chip shipments, with AMD hoping stronger corporate sales can help offset the shortfall.
That supply crunch is playing out against a broader backdrop of AI reshaping the workforce. Freshworks and Coinbase have both announced cuts exceeding one in ten of their employees, citing AI-driven efficiencies. Those moves push total tech layoffs in two thousand twenty six to nearly one hundred thousand, a figure that underscores just how quickly the industry is restructuring around automation.
And AI's disruption may reach further still. A Coinbase engineer behind a new payment protocol is arguing that AI agents could quietly dismantle the web's advertising economy. Because bots don't see ads, the entire revenue model that funds most of the internet was built for human eyeballs, and those agents are increasingly the ones doing the browsing.
That's where the technology is pulling today — toward scarcity, displacement, and some genuinely unsettled questions about what comes next. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.["https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/05/06/amd-warns-rising-memory-costs-will-hit-pc-shipments/5231063","https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/05/06/the-end-of-ads-coinbase-engineer-says-ai-agents-could-kill-the-internet-s-favorite-business-model","https://shimmer-from-structure-docs.vercel.app/docs/how-this-works","https://investor.amctheatres.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/424/arena-one-and-amc-theatres-launch-a-first-of-its-kind-shared-live-concert-experience-nationwide-beginning-in-june","https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/06/kevin-o-leary-says-wall-street-s-tokenization-boom-is-all-talk-without-crypto-rules","https://www.techradar.com/pro/freshworks-and-coinbase-announce-more-than-1-in-10-jobs-to-go-as-companies-replace-workforce-with-ai-technologies-tech-company-layoffs-near-100k-in-2026-alone","https://www.techradar.com/tech/amazon-teases-its-prime-day-sale-in-june-with-early-device-deals-echo-ring-and-kindle-from-usd14-99-edited","https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/eva-green-is-not-vibing-with-her-surroundings-can-these-smart-sensors-help-me-keep-my-houseplants-alive"]
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