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Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June — Microsoft said Wednesday that it will lay off about 9,000 employees. The move will affect less than 4% of its global workforce …

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Eddie Makuch / GameSpot:

Microsoft cuts hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, sources say including Halo Studios and King, and cancels games like Perfect Dark and Everwild — GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links.

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Bloomberg:

Sources: OpenAI will rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling about 4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative — The AI company will rent additional capacity from Oracle totaling about 4.5 gigawatts of data center power in the US …

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Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis:

A deep dive into Oracle's data center strategy and the company's emergence as an AI computing powerhouse, amid questions about its GPU business' sustainability

More: Times of India. X: @typewriters and @andrewlekashman. LinkedIn: Greg Martin

Abbie Richards / Media Matters for America:

TikTok users are posting AI-generated videos, seemingly made with Google's Veo 3, depicting racist and antisemitic tropes that have garnered millions of views — Google's Veo AI video generator is seemingly being used to generate videos depicting racist and antisemitic tropes

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, and Wired

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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:

OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares Robinhood has started offering are not equity: “We did not partner with Robinhood...and do not endorse it” — OpenAI is distancing itself from Robinhood's latest crypto push after the trading platform began offering tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe.

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:

Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit — A national banking charter would make the OCC a regulator of Ripple's stablecoin — Ripple has applied for a national banking license …

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X: @bgarlinghouse. LinkedIn: Ryan Freeman and Todd H Baker

Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/XRP

Bloomberg:

Analysis: crypto ventures have added at least $620M to President Trump's fortune in months, overshadowing traditional real estate licensing deals — The Trumps have used their name and connections to profit from digital assets at a quicker clip than from their traditional real estate business.

More: The Block, New York Post, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, TheStreet, BeInCrypto, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro — Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday.

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Bloomberg:

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets — TikTok is cutting more workers from its US e-commerce division, TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for that team since April.

More: PYMNTS.com, The Information, Business Insider, Social Media Today, and TechCrunch

Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian:

A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; the largest YoY jump was 26%, from 2023 to 2024 — Research says Google's carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed

More: WinBuzzer, ESG Dive, AI News, ITPro, and SupplyChainBrain

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

ICEBlock, an app for reporting sightings of ICE officials, was the top free app in the US App Store on Tuesday; the app claims to collect no personal data — After threats from the Trump administration, the popularity of ICEBlock surged. … ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings …

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle — The streamer has had talks with Spotify about partnering on events — Netflix ascended by offering prestige TV and movies on demand for a monthly fee.

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:

The European Commission grants conditional approval for Paramount's WBD acquisition as long as Paramount ends its EU distribution deal with Universal Pictures

Todd Spangler / Variety:

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

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Freya Pratty / Sifted:

Berlin-based Talon.One, which provides software for brands to run personalized promotions and loyalty schemes, raised $135M

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Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters:

Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy, which offers AI-based forecasting and trading products for renewable energy and batteries, raised a €23M Series C led by Alantra

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Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba plans $7B in delivery and shopping subsidies over the next year, opens a Singapore AI hub, and is opening data centers in Malaysia and the Philippines

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Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and others are becoming more popular worldwide; Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has 910M global downloads compared with DeepSeek's 125M

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George Hammond / Financial Times:

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Bloomberg:

Internal emails and audit reports warned that the Schengen Information System II, used by EU border forces, was rife with software and security vulnerabilities

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Danielle Popov / South China Morning Post:

TikTok launches TikTok Shop in Japan, marking the e-commerce platform's 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and more

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Qantas discloses a cyberattack after hackers gained access to a third-party platform with 6M customers' personal data, but says no financial info was exposed

Bloomberg:

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic and ad revenue

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Reuters:

Sources: Intel is considering writing off its 18A and 18A-P manufacturing processes and stopping their marketing, focusing instead on 14A to compete with TSMC

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking CS programs to adapt to generative AI, like focusing more on computational thinking and AI literacy

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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:

X says it will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents and developers will soon be able to submit their own AI agents for the company to review

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