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| 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.
More: Microsoft, The Decoder, Spyglass, Notebookcheck, and Financial Express
| 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 …
More: Trust & Safety …. Bluesky: @evelyndouek and @caseynewton. Threads: @timothyjchambers. LinkedIn: Trust & Safety …
| 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| 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.| Reuters: |
Huawei debuts the CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system, which outperforms Nvidia's most advanced GB200 NVL72 system on some metrics, according to SemiAnalysis — China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's most advanced offering …
More: WinBuzzer, Ukrainian National News, Engadget, Notebookcheck, and Cryptopolitan
| Bloomberg: |
Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 — An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.| Wall Street Journal: |
Architect Partners: companies have raised nearly $86B in 2025 to buy crypto, with over $43B raised since June 1, as skeptics worry about the market overheating — Small companies are raising billions of dollars to buy bitcoin and other, more obscure cryptocurrencies. What could possibly go wrong?
More: BeInCrypto
| 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 …
More: Qwen on Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, WinBuzzer, AI News, and nextbigwhat
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: US suppliers are rebuffing Temu's efforts to undercut Amazon, saying Temu cannot undercut Amazon on branded product prices — Chinese online platform's hopes of undercutting ecommerce giant rebuffed by American suppliers — Temu's efforts to find US suppliers to rebuild … | Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba previews the Quark AI glasses, which are its first pair of AI-powered glasses and named after its AI assistant, with plans to launch them later in 2025 — The Quark glasses underscore the tech giant's significant AI investments, which encompass both software and hardware products| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters — As of Friday, anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to subject themselves to an awkward selfie or get their photo ID ready.
More: Financial Times, PinkNews, GB News, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Dexerto, Tom's Guide, The Independent, Sky News, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca, @kaidzsu.com, @pacipup, @retr0.id, @dominajemma.co.uk, @ducky.ws, @dancingmonk, and @mattophobia.ie
X: @danysterkhov, @teelokay, @miakiikazu, @jayw132, @dannyonpc, @kunley_drukpa, @screenrotpod, @liberal_reform, @g0adm, @sam_dumitriu, @menkvi, @foolyoldaccount, @asonnamedbort, @meowriza, @sam_dumitriu, @brufdpsoma, @thecheapshowpod, @keewa, @casey_business, @g0adm, @joeblillib4090, @madz_grant, @sammarkwill, @nocontextbrits, @nicholastyrone, @archiemcw, @christiancalgie, @astartesineptus, @theo, @dauragon, @jess4lowestoft, @93vintagejones, @ashtarveddartha, @rickyhale_, @g0adm, @protonvpn, @ifindwankers, @joshhousden, @evolvepolitics, @epichedeadmeme, @drhingram, @meadwaj, @harry_jrh, @ascots_funk, @khubiez, @modestmousiey, @paulg, and @jess4lowestoft
Forums: r/pcgaming and r/technology
| Ellie Wolfe / The Baltimore Banner: |
The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that “the window may be closing” for making AI deals — The Johns Hopkins University will license its books to train proprietary large language models, an advanced form …
More: WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @visualplague, @dael, @nerves, @drjacekdebiec, @eobaltimore, @hypervisible, and @elliew0lfe. X: @n1babc. Forums: r/books
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at efforts by startups, such as Positron and Groq, to develop inference-focused chips that aim to be more energy efficient and performant than Nvidia's — Tech giants and startups alike are trying new approaches to what has been a vexing problem — “I can't wrap my head around it … | Washington Post: |
Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration — An internal proposal suggests how the Trump administration is planning to slash federal regulations, but obstacles loom.
More: The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Engadget, The Independent, NewsMax.com, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @chasingray, @mnindivisible, @michaelmechanic, @mmasnick, @snarktopia, @wilkos, @justinhendrix, @justinhendrix, @nyxa5, @profdanwalters, and @uxchampion. Mastodon: @MikeElgan@mastodon.social
X: @elarrealm, @trustarchitect, @capitolhunters, @merryblueworld, @thewonderladie, @ladyonfyre, @ryp__, and @magaresponse
Forums: r/politics, r/patentexaminer, and r/technology
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