Microsoft Plans Layoffs of About 5,700, Hitting Xbox and Sales Units
The email was addressed to a sales director in Microsoft’s enterprise business, and its subject line was the one employees in Redmond have learned to recognize: a meeting invitation from…
Bending Spoons Prices IPO Above Range, Raising $1.68 Billion
The bankers had guided investors to 26 to 28 dollars a share, but by the time the order book closed, the bids had climbed past the top of that range.…
AI Chip Startup Etched Discloses $800 Million in Funding
Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who made early bets on Facebook and Palantir, has invested in a lot of artificial-intelligence companies. Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist sometimes called the godfather…
General Intuition Raises $320 Million to Train AI Agents in Video Games
General Intuition said Thursday it has raised $320 million at a valuation of $2.3 billion, a vote of confidence in its unusual thesis: that video games, not real-world data, are…
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Stress-Test AI Agents
Patronus AI said Thursday it has closed a $50 million Series B round, money the startup will use to build simulated digital worlds where AI agents can be pushed to…
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A $4 Billion Class Action Against Apple’s iCloud Clears a Legal Hurdle in London LONDON—The Competition Appeal Tribunal on Wednesday allowed a class action against Apple Inc. to proceed, opening…
Search Ads Face New U.K. Rules as Epic Wins App Store Fight
Two decisions landed on the same day, and together they hit the two business models that have financed the internet for two decades. In London, the competition regulator imposed new…
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Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI Noam Shazeer, the Google engineering vice president who has co-led the company’s Gemini AI models, is leaving to join OpenAI, according to…
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AMD Silently Drops Memory Encryption From Consumer Ryzen Chips AMD has removed a hardware memory encryption feature from its latest consumer Ryzen processors without a public announcement, according to a…
DeepL Buys Mixhalo to Bring Translation Into Live Events
The scene is familiar to anyone who has attended a global conference: a speaker delivers a keynote in one language while a portion of the audience stares at phones, holding…
