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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: |
| 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
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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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 …
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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn recalled 300+ Chinese engineers from its Indian iPhone factories over the past two months, a blow for Apple as it ramps up iPhone 17 production — The bulk of Foxconn's Chinese staff at iPhone plants in southern India have been told to fly back in a move that began about two months ago …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Tax credits for Intel, TSMC, and other chip companies under the Big Beautiful Bill would rise from 25% to 35% if they expand their US manufacturing before 2026 — The latest version of U.S. President Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill” could make it cheaper for semiconductor manufacturers …
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| Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian: |
A French court finds three ex-Ubisoft executives, including the chief creative officer, guilty of enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment — Former staff likened offices of video game company in Paris to ‘boys’ club above the law' — Three former executives …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Stockholm-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M+ led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as VCs rush to back “vibe coding” startups — Two-year-old group nears more than $150mn in new funding as investors swarm around AI coding businesses
More: TechCrunch and TNW
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that Huawei must face criminal charges in an indictment alleging racketeering, stealing trade secrets, and bank fraud tied to Iran sanctions — A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Huawei Technologies' bid to dismiss most of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company … Sponsor Posts
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