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July 27, 2025, 1:00 PM

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies  —  In 2023, I asked whether we had reached peak trust and safety.  Noting the huge number of layoffs at tech companies that year …
Amin Haqshanas / Cointelegraph:
Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused onboarding crypto exchange Gemini after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies  —  Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees, calling the move anti-competitive.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases its Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 reasoning LLM on Hugging Face, topping several benchmarks, as Alibaba moves away from hybrid reasoning models  —  If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry's “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months …
Om Malik / On my Om:
Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people  —  To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo.  That's why we have to read between the lines of Satya Nadella's 1,150-word memo.
Golan Hazani / CTech:
New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M  —  Move expands company's offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices.  —  Cynerio  —  Axonius  —  Cybersecurity  —  Acquisition
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Josh Noble / Financial Times:
The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League  —  Football body's turn to Big Tech aims to cement dominance after it made €2.1bn in overseas broadcast deals last season
Financial Times:
US-German software firm Auterion says it plans to ship 33K of its AI drone “strike kits” to Ukraine by the end of 2025 to help combat mass Russian drone attacks  —  Pentagon-backed deal aims to help combat mass attacks by Russia  —  Sylvia Pfeifer in London, Laura Pitel in Berlin and Christopher Miller in Kyiv
Moneycontrol:
Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026  —  In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan described the decision as one of the toughest he has faced, calling it a necessary step to build a stronger, future-ready company.

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