2026-05-26: ClickUp laid off 22% of its workforce to embrace AI agents offering million-dollar salaries for

Show Notes - 2026-05-26 Stories Covered: - Today: (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/25/what-clickups-mass-layoff-tells-us-about-the-future-of-work/) - Google Gemini 3.5 (https://zapier.com/blog/google-gemini) - Android 17 (https://smallbiztrends.com/android-17-empowers-creators-with-instant-reaction-video-tool/) - Spotify's AI remixing tool (https://www.inc.com/kevin-haynes/want-to-remix-your-favorite-songs-spotifys-new-ai-tool-lets-you-be-the-dj/91349772) - Make AI agents reliable with layered controls. (https://blog.n8n.io/make-ai-agents-more-reliable-and-restrict-the-actions-they-can-take/) - Optimize for AI Overviews or lose search visibility. (https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/optimize-for-ai-overviews) - Uber exhausted its annual AI budget four months into 2026 (https://www.theverge.com/transportation/937116/uber-ai-investment-hard-to-justify) - Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical (https://www.theverge.com/news/936945/pope-leo-letter-encyclical-ai-anthropic-labor-warfare) - OpenAI partnered with Brazil's Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL (https://openai.com/index/grupo-folha-grupo-uol-partnership) - AI agent terminology standardized (https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-glossary) - Text replacement for instant emoji on Mac. (https://zapier.com/blog/emoji-keyboard-mac) Full brief: https://carolinacleartech.com/ai-brief/2026-05-26/