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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's Xbox plans to cut ~3,200 jobs over the next year, including 1,600 on Monday, and divest up to five studios, including Ninja Theory, in a “reset” — Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most are in sales or Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY 2027 — Most of the job losses are in Microsoft's Xbox and commercial sales organizations. … A year after cutting around 9,100 employees …
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| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models — Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access …
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months — Chinese-built AI models are gaining traction among U.S. companies as they narrow the performance gap with leading American rivals … | New York Times: |
Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business — The Chinese company's models have won over developers worldwide, but they are open source — so they can be used and modified freely.| Reuters: |
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, up 19x from Q2 2025 and above ~$57.02B est., and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B; Samsung's stock drops 5%+ — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output — As you read this sentence, circuits in your brain are adjusting your posture, controlling your breathing, and transforming lines and curves on the screen into recognizable words.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for business users comes as AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue — Hans Ibarra, a founder building … | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T — Meta Platforms (META.O) said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware — Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users …
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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot — A former Tesla Inc. scientist who worked on Elon Musk's Optimus robot unveiled plans to produce a lightweight humanoid robot … | Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: |
Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese companies are ditching Nvidia Corp.'s advanced accelerators in favor of domestic silicon, underscoring how tensions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google — German startup Proxima Fusion has raised €411 million ($469 million) from a range of investors …
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| Reuters: |
Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% — Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices …
More: Benzinga
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a $900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific — Nscale raised $2 billion earlier this year as investors continue to see promise in AI — Nscale Global Holdings said it had secured …
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| Kelsey Vlamis / Business Insider: |
xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and unveils a new logo; Elon Musk said in May that xAI would be dissolved as a separate company and become the AI products from SpaceX — - xAI has officially been rebranded to SpaceXAI. — The change follows SpaceX's historic IPO and acquisition of xAI earlier this year.
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| Sam Witteveen / VentureBeat: |
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April — For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats — Wikipedia is in peril. — In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front.
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