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Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, with Xbox facing the largest share of reductions, as the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence and restructures its gaming division. The layoffs affect ab…

Syntiant, a chipmaker specializing in low-power edge AI processors, filed for a US IPO on July 6, planning to list on Nasdaq under SYTN. The company reported $64.5 million in revenue for Q1 fiscal 202…

U.S. chip stocks rallied Monday but Asian shares fell Tuesday as concerns about the sustainability of AI-driven demand weighed on Samsung and SK Hynix, dragging South Korea's KOSPI down 5%. Samsung's …

Meta Platforms announced plans to spend between $115 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly double its 2025 spending, triggering over $1 trillion in market cap losses across AI …

A veteran HBO executive who navigated four tech disruptions advocates 'AI Minimalism' as the strategy for surviving the fifth wave of artificial intelligence. The approach calls for stripping operatio…

Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica positions trusted context as the new currency for enterprise AI, as organizations shift from experiments to production. The combined strategy integrates Tableau…

Anthropic hired Teresa Carlson as its first Global Head of Public Sector, tapping a veteran of Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk to lead government relations. The move comes as the AI company…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced layoffs affecting 20% of staff, roughly 3,200 employees, as part of a broader Microsoft workforce reduction impacting about 2% of its 228,000 workers. Sharma cited overe…

Microsoft announced 4,800 job cuts globally, including 1,600 immediate layoffs at Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. The Xbox division is undergoing its largest over…

Huntress partnered with UK channel marketplace Giacom to give managed service providers on Giacom's Cloud Market platform direct access to Huntress's Agentic Security Platform and AI-centric SOC. The …

Google's electricity consumption surged from 31 TWh in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025, the largest increase on record, driven by the energy demands of its generative AI systems. The company's emissions are ri…

Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning off five gaming studios after a $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition and $20 billion in expansion failed to generate growth, Xbox CEO Asha Shar…

A developer discovered that raw document layouts can consume over 70,000 tokens before any LLM query, due to hidden XML tags, styling metadata, and formatting noise. To solve this, they adopted Micros…

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is rolling out Anthropic's Claude as an enterprise AI tool and will begin a July 2026 pilot with 100 AI Champions while testing ABC Assist for radio-to-di…

A vulnerability in Discord's AI moderation system, powered by Microsoft's PhotoDNA, is falsely flagging square grid images like spreadsheets, chessboards, and Minecraft inventories as child sexual abu…

In 2026, over 150,000 tech workers have been laid off across 363 events, with companies explicitly citing AI as the primary driver while posting record profits. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce dur…

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a cross-platform, policy-driven execution layer for AI agents on Windows and WSL, now in early preview. The SDK abstracts isolation primitive…

Microsoft clarified in a September 2025 .NET Blog post that GitHub Copilot's repository-wide copilot-instructions.md files apply automatically to every request, while *.prompt.md files are reusable, t…

By 2026, AI agents moved from demos to production, introducing runaway costs from tool calls and recursive reasoning. A VentureBeat survey found 79% of enterprises took financial hits from autonomous …

Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two…