The Algorithm Post

At about 5:30 pm on May 5, 2026, Tobias Temple-Smith received a deeply distressing email. Up until the moment the ominous email hit his inbox, he had been preparing to resume work at a London-based firm where he secured a £38,000 role as a graduate analyst. However, the six-line email made it clear his contract had been cancelled. Tobias received a shocking email telling him his job offer was revoked. Photo: Tobias Temple-Smith/LinkedIn “Toby…Hope you are keeping well.

By Israel Usulor Before clicking “apply”, one of the things most tech job seekers consider is how much the role pays. They want to know whether the salary is enough to cover their bills and still leave them with some savings. Among other things, tech job seekers do mental math about how much it would cost them to commute to work daily (if the job is on-site) or to run a home office if the job is remote. They then compare everything to the listed salary to know whether it is worth it.

By Israel Usulor Meta’s AI ambitions have forced CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make a post on X for the first time in three years. Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg made a post on X after a 3-year absence. Photo: Facebook On Thursday, July 9, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model with agentic and coding capabilities. Zuck, who rarely makes posts on X, came on the platform to market Muse Spark to the developer community. The last time he posted anything on X was July 6, 2023.

By Israel Usulor Vercel, the company that helps developers deploy websites and web applications on the internet, has acquired Better Auth. Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel and Bereket Engida. Photo: Guillermo Rauch Better Auth is an open-source TypeScript authentication library that enables developers to host and manage authentication themselves instead of relying on third-party hosted services.

By Israel Usulor OpenAI is doubling down in its competition with Anthropic. The Sam Altman-led frontier lab has announced the release of a new voice feature called ChatGPT Live. ChatGPT Voice allows users to interact live with the AI model using voice. Photo: OpenAI. ChatGPT Live is a voice feature that allows users to interact with the model using voice, rather than text.

By Israel Usulor Most B2B SaaS companies treat CTA as an afterthought instead of giving it the kingly attention it deserves in a SaaS blog article. This is exactly why SaaS companies spend thousands of dollars on ads to rank first on Google, but their actual conversion rate is nothing to write home about. Thousands of readers visit the company’s blog, read articles, but fail to take positive action, which is to buy or sign up for a product.

By Israel Usulor Ford has re-engaged its 300 engineers who could not be replaced by AI. Last year, Ford's chief operating officer, Kumar Galhotra, had said the company was "deploying AI across the entire industrial system". Ford rehires 300 human engineers. Photo: Ford.

By Israel Usulor Some years ago, when Ovosa Oroye, a social media personality, wanted to receive foreign donations to support a project he was running in Nigeria, the fundraising platform requested that he provide a PayPal account. He told me he had donors standing by, and all that was needed was for him to connect a PayPal account to the fundraising platform and have the funds sent to him for his non-profit. PayPal is a major global payment platform, but Nigerians were shut out for years.

By Israel Usulor On June 21, the payment technology platform Cardtonic notified customers of an impending app upgrade expected to last only three hours. In an email, the fintech stated that during the upgrade between 12 am and 3 am on June 22, customers will be unable to log into the Cardtonic app. However, the scheduled maintenance lasted longer than expected. By 3 am on June 22, the maintenance was not completed, making many customers frustrated.

By Israel Usulor In the AI era, a Google search, which used to feel like doing some mini-research on the internet, now feels like chatting with a bot. This is because Google has introduced what it calls ‘Google AI Overviews’, which, in the company’s own words, “provide a snapshot of key information about a topic or question with links so you can easily explore more on the web.” Google throws up Gemin-generated search results. Photo illustration by Israel Usulor for The Algorithm Post.