FavTutor Editorial Team
August 2026
Starbucks Cuts 224 Corporate Jobs as Part of Turnaround Plan
Starbucks is laying off 224 corporate workers, including employees who declined to relocate from Seattle to the company's new Nashville office.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens 'to Promote Healthy Use'
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with better safety features, parental controls, and text-only responses.
Anthropic Hits $65 Billion Revenue Run Rate Ahead of IPO
Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65 billion in July 2026, up from $9 billion last year, outperforming OpenAI.
Claude Fired a Worker for 17 Late Shifts After Logging Only 6 of Them
Andon Labs' AI store manager fired its first human worker. Its own record showed six late arrivals, not 17, and it needed a human prompt before it acted.
GLM-5.3 Review: What Real Users Actually Think
One head to head put GLM 5.3 at $0.018 a task against $0.420 for Fable 5, for half a point less quality. On a test Z.ai did not tune for, it ties GLM 5.2.
How to Access GLM 5.3 and Get It Running in Claude Code in 10 Minutes
The free Z.ai chat still stops at GLM 5.2 and the API says coming soon, so the $18 Coding Plan is the only door open. Every step, with screenshots.
Google Turns On Gemini in Google Classroom for K-12 Students of Every Age
The Gemini tab is on by default for students of all ages, and keeping under 18s out now means building a separate org unit in the Admin console.
Apple Trained Its Own AI Model for China, 22 Months After Promising Apple Intelligence There
Apple's China-only model would be the first proprietary AI model Beijing has let a foreign company run. Apple Intelligence lands there in the coming months.
OpenAI's Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion, Double Its Late 2025 Pace
Greg Brockman told staff July grew more than 20% in a single month. Three senior commercial leaders left in five weeks. We read both facts together.
July 2026
OpenAI Is Giving 100,000 Researchers Free ChatGPT. Here's Who Qualifies.
Faculty and postdocs get a free five-seat workspace with Pro-level limits for 12 months. ChatGPT only, no API credits, and the eligibility list sits behind a login.
Visa Layoffs: 2,600 Tech Jobs Cut Hours Before a Record Quarter
The memo says AI is changing how work gets done. The SEC filing says $563 million in severance and not a word about AI. We read both.
Claude Shared Chats Are Off Google. The Artifacts Are Still There.
Every outlet reported this was fixed on Monday. We ran both searches on Wednesday. The chats are gone from Google. The Artifacts are still there, ten pages of them.
Best Coding Fonts for Developers in 2026 (41 Tested Live)
41 monospace fonts reviewed and 36 rendering live in your browser, with measured x-heights and cell widths, verified prices, the ligature evidence and setup for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and terminals.
Claude Opus 5 Tops the Benchmarks While Early Testers Call It "Hard to Love"
It leads the independent intelligence index at half of Fable 5's cost. The people who tested it for a week say it argues, stops early and breaks their setups.