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For example, the Cocoon Chill by Sealy is one of our favorite cooling mattresses that passed our week of testing with flying colors. While I’ve only been in the mattress industry for five years (a blip compared to Sealy’s timeline), I’m the resident sleep writer, reviewer, and certified sleep science coach here at WIRED. These are beds to keep an eye on, especially when they go on sale. Without further ado, here are some Sealy promo codes for this very case.

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• Amazon wants 80% of its developers to be using AI every single week
• The company is even tracking AI token usage via internal leaderboards
• Unwilling workers are using AI where it’s not necessary just to inflate figures

Some Amazon employees are reportedly using the company’s internal agentic AI platform, MeshClaw, to automate unnecessary or trivial parts of their work simply to boost internal AI usage metrics.

This comes as company workers are being pressured from above to use more AI – Amazon wants four in five of its developers to be using the tech weekly, and has since started tracking AI token consumption on internal leaderboards.

The European Union wants Google to allow any AI company to use its services, and the company hates the idea. Apple agrees with Google.

Apple doesn’t seem to be listened to by the European Union when it complains about its own experiences trying to work within the Digital Markets Act (DMA). But since the EU has asked for responses to its proposals for Google to open up to rival AI firms, Apple has tried again.

“The DMs [draft measures] raise urgent and serious concerns,” said Apple in a submission to the EU, as seen by Reuters.

For instance, Apple is expressly concerned about the idea that any AI firm could in theory send emails or order food via Android, without Google’s or perhaps the user’s knowledge.

“If confirmed, they would create profound risks for user privacy, security, and safety as well as device integrity and performance,” continued Apple.

Apple doubtlessly has its own platforms in mind when it is now objecting to rival firms having full access to Android. But it also makes the point that the EU has specified AI firms in its proposals, and Apple points out how poor and error-strewn AI apps are.

“These risks are especially acute in the context of rapidly evolving AI systems whose capabilities, behaviours, and threat vectors remain unpredictable,” said Apple, “as we are now seeing time and again.”

Anyone can submit their opinion to the EU when there is an open call like this, and everyone who does is really looking to protect their own interests. So Apple is clearly concerned that it, too, may be forced to allow the same rival access in iOS.

However, Apple does also have the experience of what it has previously claimed to be “hundreds of thousands of engineering hours” in complying with the DMA. And as part of its new submission, questioned the EU’s technological expertise.

“The EC is redesigning an OS… it is substituting judgments made by Google’s engineers for its own judgment based on less than three months of work,” said Apple. “It is all the more dangerous given the only value that can be discerned from the [draft measures] guiding this work appears to be open and unfettered access.”

Separately, in May 2026, the EU concluded that its DMA has made a positive impact, thereby ignoring Apple’s lobbying for it to be revised.

What happens next

It’s not clear when Apple submitted its filing to the EU, but it was during the consultation period that ran from April 27, 2026, to May 13, 2026.

The European Commission states that it will “carefully assess” submissions from both Google and what it calls interested parties. It does say that there may be adjustments made to the proposed measures because of the submissions.

However, it also mandates that its final decision “must be adopted within six months” of the opening of the specification proceedings. In this case, that means July 27, 2026.

The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor Navy of King Henry VIII  that fought in multiple battles during the 16th century before it was sunk in 1545. After its wreck was located in 1971 and raised in 1982 the ship and all the items contained within the partially preserved hull became the focus of intense study. Among these items are the weaponry found, including the canons, but also massive darts that seemed to have been designed for an incendiary payload. Recently [Tod’s Workshop] collaborated with others to test these presumed incendiary darts.

Although fire arrows have been around for a while, seeing what appears to be super-sized versions of these is somewhat unusual, but could make sense in taking out enemy ships of the time. The main questions are how you would even fire them, and how effective they would be. Were the darts thrown by hand from e.g. the crow’s nest, or fired from a canon?

The reproduction darts used are based on the recovered remnants of the original darts, with an incendiary mixture inside a pitch-covered cloth covering. This mixture would be ignited by wooden fuses after a set amount of time, at which point the resulting fire would be basically impossible to put out. Obviously, this also means that if you were to throw one of these darts, it can absolutely not fall onto your own ship.

First tested was throwing the dart by hand, which seems like it would clear the ship. Of course, the three recovered darts were found near a rather special canon that appeared to be both a miscast and angled upwards. Whether that canon was used for launching apparently somewhat experimental darts is hard to say, but it can be tested. Sadly, lacking a full-sized black powder canon a scale model dart was fired using compressed air.

From that scale test it’s clear that at full charge the dart would disintegrate due to the rapid acceleration, but a ‘soft’, or reduced, charge could work against nearby targets. Once the dart lodges itself into the enemy ship’s structure, it would definitely cause severe damage as further tests in the video demonstrate. Having a salvo of these fire darts fired at you from a nearby ship would definitely make for a pretty bad day.

Microsoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year.

LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the latest reduction at a Microsoft-owned business and the most recent entry in a year-long Big Tech contraction that has now displaced more than 100,000 workers across the sector.

Chief executive Dan Shapero, who took over from Ryan Roslansky in late April when Roslansky moved into a new AI role inside Microsoft, set out the cuts in a memo to employees, citing the need to operate “more profitably” and to reinvent how the company works with smaller, more agile teams. Bloomberg reported the memo on Wednesday.

LinkedIn employed roughly 17,500 staff at the start of 2026, implying a cut in the region of 900 to 1,000 roles.

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The company has not confirmed an absolute number, but multiple outlets briefed by sources put the figure at about 875 jobs, with engineering, product, marketing, and the Global Business Organization carrying most of the impact.

The bigger number is the one that frames everything else. By 13 May, the global technology sector had announced more than 100,000 layoffs across some 250 separate events, an average of roughly 880 a day, according to industry trackers.

The TrueUp layoffs tracker had logged 286 events affecting 128,270 workers, the highest reading since the 2023 contraction.

The defining feature is the divergence between payroll and capital expenditure. Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are collectively guiding to roughly $725 billion of capital spending in 2026, almost all of it directed at AI infrastructure, GPUs, and data centres.

That figure is up from $410 billion in 2025, and rising faster than at any point since the cloud build-out of the late 2010s. Headcount, meanwhile, is going the other direction at the same firms.

The biggest single tranche still ahead this week is Meta’s. The company will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its 78,865-person workforce, with further reductions planned for the second half of 2026.

Microsoft has taken a different shape. Rather than involuntary cuts, the company in April opened a voluntary-separation programme to around 8,750 US employees, roughly 7% of its domestic headcount, structured under a “Rule of 70” formula in which years of service plus age must total at least 70.

It is the first such programme in the company’s 51-year history. Final notifications went out on 7 May, with a 30-day decision window. LinkedIn’s cuts now layer on top of those Microsoft moves.

Amazon has been quieter but is on a larger absolute trajectory. The company confirmed in January that it was cutting 16,000 corporate roles, bringing total reductions since October 2025 to roughly 30,000, the largest workforce contraction in its history.

Chief executive Andy Jassy framed the cuts as a flattening of layers built up during the 2020-2022 hyper-growth phase, not a direct AI substitution.

The smaller players are following the same pattern at a different scale. Oracle has cut roughly 30,000 positions, around 18% of its global workforce. IBM, Salesforce, Cisco, and SAP have all confirmed cuts over the year, and defence-adjacent contractors tied to federal technology procurement have shed several thousand roles since the start of the year.

For LinkedIn, the framing is narrower. Shapero’s memo pointed to slower revenue growth and an organisational flattening rather than an AI substitution, and the cuts are part of a wider Microsoft-group rebalance that began with the April Rule-of-70 programme.

LinkedIn’s revenue still grew 12% year on year in the most recent quarter, which makes the cut a profitability call, not a top-line one.

Whether the AI-substitution reading holds across the rest of the sector will probably be settled by the second-half 2026 round of disclosures, particularly Meta’s.

Until then, the running 2026 total is the only honest summary of the labour story: more than 100,000 jobs out, $725 billion of capex going in, and a widening gap between where the money sits and where the people do.