Microsoft cuts 9,000 jobs including 200 at Candy Crush maker King, marking the fourth Xbox layoff round in 18 months. Despite record gaming engagement, the $69 billion Activision deal pressures studios to prove profitability over creativity.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta wrote checks for $300 million. OpenAI researchers said no. Zuckerberg offered packages that make
Meta offered AI researchers $300 million packages to join its new lab. Every single person said no. The rejections reveal how top talent values mission over money in the race to build artificial intelligence.
Intel's new CEO wants to abandon a multibillion-dollar chip technology his predecessor championed. The risky pivot to next-gen 14A aims to win back Apple and Nvidia from TSMC—but could cost billions in write-offs. Stakes couldn't be higher.
Apple considers ditching its own AI technology for Siri, eyeing Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT instead. The potential reversal exposes Apple's struggle in the AI race and internal talent exodus.
Trump killed Canada's tech tax with one threat. After he canceled trade talks Friday, Canada dropped its $3B digital levy on Google, Meta, and Amazon by Sunday night. The quick surrender shows how economic leverage trumps sovereignty.
A Marine-led startup that reads stress patterns in voices just raised $60M from ex-CIA chief David Petraeus. Clearspeed detects fraud and security risks without listening to words - just tone and hesitation patterns across any language.
Most AI coding tools autocomplete lines. Claude Code builds entire features, reads git history, and writes pull requests. Anthropic's terminal-based AI cuts onboarding from weeks to days and works with any IDE or workflow.
Anthropic launches research program to study AI's job impact after CEO predicts 50% of white-collar roles will vanish in 5 years. New data shows coding work already transforming as AI agents automate 79% of developer tasks.
New research reveals most people don't use AI for therapy—yet. Only 2.9% of Claude conversations involve emotional support, but the longest sessions hint at deeper connections ahead as AI capabilities grow.
AI app creators faced a brutal choice: absorb crushing API costs as users grew, or charge upfront and kill adoption. Anthropic just eliminated that dilemma by letting Claude users build apps where usage counts against each user's own subscription, not the creator's bill.
Google just turned the command line into a conversation. Instead of memorizing cryptic terminal commands, developers can now tell their computers what they want in plain English. The shift sounds simple but changes everything about who can code and how software gets built.
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati raised $2 billion for her new AI company, shattering every seed funding record. Her six-month-old startup is now worth $10 billion without shipping a product. The deal shows how the exodus of top talent from OpenAI is creating well-funded competitors.
Trump Media announces a $400 million stock buyback despite posting $400 million in losses last year on just $3.6 million in revenue. The company sits on $3 billion in cash, raising questions about whether returning money to shareholders makes sense.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are pushing Congress to ban states from regulating AI for 10 years. California just released a detailed framework for AI oversight. The clash could determine who controls AI rules nationwide.
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