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Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months — The video-game division's latest round of layoffs is expected next week … Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across … | Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a bundle with the $299 Meta Quest 3S in a new color, available in “extremely limited” quantities — Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame.
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| Olivia Sophie Rafferty / ai fray: |
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library used for training was not — Context: Last August, book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed a copyright infringement class action …
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin — A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day or next-day delivery to “tens of millions” of people who live “in more than 4,000” smaller US towns by the end of 2026 — The company is bringing faster delivery to thousands of small towns and rural communities.
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Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year — On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.
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| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 24+ Microsoft customers and salespeople show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot to enterprises as many of their employees want ChatGPT — Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to corporations because many of their employees want ChatGPT.| Google Developers Blog: |
The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDKs — Today at Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agent2Agent project with Amazon Web Services … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta available exclusively in Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area excluding highways, after launching in Austin on March 4 — Atlanta is the second city to host Uber and Waymo's burgeoning partnership. … Uber customers in Atlanta now have the option …
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The UK CMA proposes to designate Google with “strategic market status” in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime — Big Tech giant slams Competition and Markets Authority's plan as ‘punitive’ and risk to economic growth
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations — We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning — Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects: |
A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow — Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry. OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] … | Bloomberg: |
The NHTSA says it is investigating incidents of Tesla's robotaxis apparently violating traffic laws, like by entering opposite lanes, as seen on social media — The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of the incidents that were captured in videos posted on social media …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Digital Asset, which builds the Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb — Crypto company Digital Asset said Tuesday that it's netted $135 million in funding from a raft of major names in banking and finance.
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures — When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft's autonomous vehicle program … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage — Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on why AI companionship is like junk food, plans for a Hinge mobile payment system to avoid Apple's App Store fees, and more — Today, I'm talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States … | Blake Dodge / Pirate Wires: |
Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on joining US Detachment 201, the US Army's tech challenges, the “vibe shift” in Silicon Valley's military relations, and more — a q&a with boz on joining detachment 201 with execs from palantir and openai, tech challenges the armed forces are tackling … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
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