Tim Apple, Canva, Anthropic, Layoffs, Palantir, and Picasso
Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI in Healthcare
🍎 Tim Apple
👩💼 Canva
📈 Anthropic
👩👦👦 Org Charts
👨💼 Layoffs
💰 Buyouts
👿 Palantir
👨🎨 Picasso
Podcast
Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.
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News and Useful Reads
Tim Cook’s extraordinary career in 4 charts
Tim Cook is stepping down from his role at Apple. And while he was never the product person Steve Jobs was, he took Apple to some very high heights.
But numbers don’t lie. And the sales, profit and market value Cook could achieve for Apple during his tenure were unparalleled.
Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership
Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs feature powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva’s Design Engine and Visual Suite to let users go from a text description to a fully editable, on-brand visual without opening Canva at all.
Anthropic just overtook OpenAI with $1 trillion valuation
Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI and ChatGPT in overall value.
The artificial intelligence firm hit a $1 trillion valuation on Forge Global, a financial platform that allows investors to acquire shares from private companies.
The org chart isn’t ready: How AI exposed the hidden crisis inside the American corporation
AI is exposing some of the underlying cracks in traditional organizations. And the pace of change is making it hard to ignore according to KPMG.
The KPMG data bears this out in sometimes uncomfortable detail. Only 30% of executives say their organization’s structures, roles, and processes can reconfigure quickly as business needs change. Only 24% identified more dynamic talent deployment as a key change made over the last year. The C-suite has embraced the language of transformation. The org chart hasn’t moved.
20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here
Many economists and industry experts are fearful that a labor crisis may be upon us today — not coming sometime in the future — given how quickly AI is sweeping across corporate America. As of this week, over 92,000 tech workers have been laid off so far in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi, bringing the total to almost 900,000 since 2020
Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
Layoffs aren’t the only way to reduce the workforce. Microsoft is opting for a buyout of some of its employees.
About 7% of U.S. employees are eligible, according to a person familiar with the plans who asked not to be named because the number isn’t being made public. The one-time retirement program, announced in a memo on Thursday, will be available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher.
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys
And the answer is yes, they are the bad guys.
Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump’s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.
Other Interesting Finds
Raffle winner thrilled to claim a $1 million Picasso with a $117 ticket
My wife and I were discussing this drawing recently. We wanted to enter, but since we’re in a state with strict gambling laws, we couldn’t. Not even for a noble cause like Alzheimer’s research.
The online draw offered the chance to win a $1 million portrait by the Spanish artist in aid of Alzheimer’s research.
Organizers said all 120,000 tickets were sold worldwide, netting 12 million euros ($14 million). Of that, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owned the painting.