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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild — Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox — Sony is bringing its popular live-service third-person shooter to more players. … Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly replace white collar workers, a shift from dodging job loss questions — Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ — CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M+ budget; few staff believed EA leadership's 100M player target was achievable — EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that's too big to fail. — It's been 23 years since the first Battlefield game …
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| Business Insider: |
Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform — - Meta is training custom AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages and boost user engagement.
More: Engadget and The Decoder
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Samsung's One UI 8 animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold — Samsung may unveil its tri-fold foldable phone with dual hinges soon — here's your first animated look! — • — •
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| Spiegel Online: |
A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily — AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors.
More: Ars Technica. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @santi4dc. Threads: @mattnavarra
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
ASML, Mistral AI, and 40+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act for two years, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk — European companies including ASML Holding NV, Airbus SE and Mistral AI have called on the European Union to suspend the implementation … | Bhavya Sukheja / NDTV: |
Mixpanel co-founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more” — The AI founder shared Soham Parekh's resume, which shows that the techie has worked at Dynamo AI, Union AI …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Similarweb: since Google launched AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs has grown from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 — Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting … | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Thoma Bravo strikes a $2B deal to acquire restaurant software maker Olo, paying $10.25 per share, representing a 65% premium over Olo's share price on April 30 — Thoma Bravo has struck a $2 billion deal to acquire restaurant software maker Olo Inc. in a sign that private equity firms …
More: The Information, Chicago Business, and Reuters
| Carl Zimmer / New York Times: |
Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M+ human responses from 160 psychological experiments to better understand human cognition — To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions.
More: Nature, Semafor, The Debrief, Tech Xplore, and Digit
| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a new wave of virtual YouTube and TikTok creators amid concerns about AI slop — One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes.| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, files for an IPO and reports an $8.3M net loss on $15.7M in revenue in the three months to March 31 — The Austin-based company's chips are used in personal devices like fitness trackers, and industrial applications such as crop monitoring …
More: Reuters
| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses, which weigh 36g and use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, for the deaf and hard-of-hearing — TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients, after the Trump administration lifted export curbs imposed in May — President Donald Trump's administration has lifted recent export license requirements for chip design software sales in China …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares now on Robinhood are not equity: “We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it” — OpenAI is distancing itself from Robinhood's latest crypto push after the trading platform began offering tokenized shares …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/smallstreetbets
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more — The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news — Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com
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