Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Microsoft will update Word, Excel, and PowerPoint next week to let users move a widely criticized floating Copilot button to the ribbon, responding to complaints that the element obstructed cells and couldn't be fully disabled.
Jay Goldberg · 166 DAYS AGO
Bloom Energy shares rose after it announced a partnership with European AI cloud provider Nebius, which will pay Bloom up to $2.6 billion in service fees to deploy fuel-cell power systems at its European data centers.
Jay Goldberg · 167 DAYS AGO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has "largely conceded" China's AI chip market to Huawei as U.S. export restrictions remain firmly in place, even as Nvidia posted quarterly revenue of $81.62 billion, an 85% year-over-year increase.
Jay Goldberg · 167 DAYS AGO
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Wednesday that the company is laying off 8,000 workers — about 10% of its workforce — while moving roughly 7,000 others into new AI-focused roles, warning that "success isn't a given" in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
Jay Goldberg · 167 DAYS AGO
Google revealed its first audio smart glasses at the I/O developers conference on Tuesday, partnering with Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster on Gemini-powered wearables set to launch this fall.
Sara Montes de Oca · 168 DAYS AGO
AT&T plans to invest roughly $38 billion over the next five years on blue-collar skilled workers, even as AI-driven hiring slowdowns squeeze opportunities for new college graduates across professional industries.
Sara Montes de Oca · 168 DAYS AGO
AI adoption across corporate America is slowing entry-level hiring for college graduates while fueling urgent demand for skilled trade workers, as companies like AT&T commit billions to blue-collar workforce expansion.
Sara Montes de Oca · 169 DAYS AGO
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Tuesday in Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon over its designation as a supply chain risk — a label that restricts defense contractors from using the company's Claude AI models.
Sara Montes de Oca · 169 DAYS AGO
A jury unanimously dismissed all claims in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, finding two counts barred by the statute of limitations after roughly two hours of deliberation. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the advisory verdict.
Sara Montes de Oca · 169 DAYS AGO
Meta is set to begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs — about 10% of its workforce — starting Wednesday, as the company cancels 6,000 open roles and raises its 2026 AI capital expenditure guidance to as high as $145 billion.
Sara Montes de Oca · 169 DAYS AGO
Meta is beginning an approximately 8,000-person layoff round on Wednesday — about 10% of its workforce — as CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerates AI investment and drops the apologetic tone that defined earlier rounds of cuts.
Sara Montes de Oca · 170 DAYS AGO
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was repeatedly booed by University of Arizona graduates on Friday as his commencement address turned to AI advocacy, reflecting growing anxiety among new degree-holders entering an AI-disrupted job market.
Sara Montes de Oca · 170 DAYS AGO
General Motors has laid off roughly 600 salaried IT employees — more than 10% of its IT department — in a deliberate push to replace traditional technology roles with AI-focused positions, reflecting a broader workforce realignment across the automotive industry.
Jay Goldberg · 170 DAYS AGO
Nectar Social, an agentic marketing platform co-founded by two former Meta employees, closed a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthropic-affiliated Anthology Fund, with plans to expand its AI-driven platform for brand management across social channels.
Jay Goldberg · 171 DAYS AGO
President Trump said Friday he discussed "possibly working together" on AI guardrails with Chinese President Xi Jinping during summit talks in China, offering one of the administration's most direct public signals that AI governance could be a subject of U.S.-China diplomacy.
Jay Goldberg · 171 DAYS AGO
The preprint server arXiv will ban all authors of a flagged manuscript from submitting for one year and permanently require peer review for their future work if inappropriate AI-generated content is found in their submissions.
Sara Montes de Oca · 172 DAYS AGO
General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis have collectively shed more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs — 19% of their combined white-collar workforces — from recent peaks, with AI-driven workforce restructuring accelerating the trend at all three companies.
Sara Montes de Oca · 173 DAYS AGO
Cisco shares surged 15% Thursday after the company blew past its AI infrastructure order guidance and raised its fiscal-year forecast from $5 billion to $9 billion, with CEO Chuck Robbins declaring the start of a "networking supercycle."
Jay Goldberg · 173 DAYS AGO
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