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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 …
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  —  Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Figma files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE under the ticker FIG, and reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $228.2M and net income up 233% YoY to $44.9M  —  Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol “FIG.”
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 …
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  —  Intel's (INTC.O) new chief executive is exploring a big change to its contract manufacturing business to win major customers …
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  —  Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed …
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Sources: Palmer Luckey is preparing to launch Erebor, a US bank backed by Joe Lonsdale and other tech investors to serve startups, including crypto businesses  —  Start-up named after the dragon's mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’  —  A group of tech billionaires led by Palmer Luckey …
Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10+ occasions, offered top AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M+ in total compensation for the first year  —  The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
In a memo to OpenAI researchers, Sam Altman said “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock”
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  —  Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure business is firing on all cylinders and is greatly outpacing expectations.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Former NPR President and CEO Kevin Klose, who also had been Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, died Wednesday at 85 from Alzheimer's complications

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
How UK tabloids, which once held a powerful grip on the national discourse, are struggling in an era of social media feeds, AI, and influencer-driven content

Sara Fischer / Axios:
WSJ and Dow Jones plan a new sports vertical that will debut alongside an exclusive, invitation-only sports economy event in New York City this summer

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Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Ambrook, which provides accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma CEO Dylan Field
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A California jury rules Google is liable in a 2019 class action lawsuit for collecting info from users' Android devices without permission and must pay $314.6M+
Bloomberg:
Nothing unveils the $799 Phone 3 with a 6.7" AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, and three 50MP cameras, and the $299 Headphone 1, both shipping from July 15
The Information:
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta launches direct messaging for Threads users aged 18 and older, without E2EE support, and announces a “highlighter” feature, starting for trending topics
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
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