Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
read Phil Spencer's note to staff Bloomberg : Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs IGN : Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Conf...
Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox
Sony is bringing its popular live-service third-person shooter to more players. … Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 …
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly replace white collar workers, a shift from dodging job loss questions
Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ — CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.
Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M+ budget; few staff believed EA leadership's 100M player target was achievable
EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that's too big to fail. — It's been 23 years since the first Battlefield game …
Samsung's One UI 8 animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold
Samsung may unveil its tri-fold foldable phone with dual hinges soon — here's your first animated look! — • — •
Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform
- Meta is training custom AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages and boost user engagement.
A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors.
ASML, Mistral AI, and 40+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act for two years, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk
European companies including ASML Holding NV, Airbus SE and Mistral AI have called on the European Union to suspend the implementation …
Mixpanel co-founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more”
The AI founder shared Soham Parekh's resume, which shows that the techie has worked at Dynamo AI, Union AI …
Thoma Bravo strikes a $2B deal to acquire restaurant software maker Olo, paying $10.25 per share, representing a 65% premium over Olo's share price on April 30
Thoma Bravo has struck a $2 billion deal to acquire restaurant software maker Olo Inc. in a sign that private equity firms …
Similarweb: since Google launched AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs has grown from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025
Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting …
Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M+ human responses from 160 psychological experiments to better understand human cognition
To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions.
AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a new wave of virtual YouTube and TikTok creators amid concerns about AI slop
One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. Bluesky: @zachbussey.tos.gg . LinkedIn: Michael Lingelbach . Forums: r/artificial See also Med...
A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses, which weigh 36g and use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell …
OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares now on Robinhood are not equity: “We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it”
OpenAI is distancing itself from Robinhood's latest crypto push after the trading platform began offering tokenized shares …
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more
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Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients, after the Trump administration lifted export curbs imposed in May
President Donald Trump's administration has lifted recent export license requirements for chip design software sales in China …
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The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's crypto Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M+
Ben Weiss / Fortune :
Sources: JD.com and Ant are lobbying the People's Bank of China to authorize yuan-based, Hong Kong-issued stablecoins to promote the yuan and counter USD coins
An analysis of 15M+ biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who didn't
Gina Kolata / New York Times :
Bitcoin's implied volatility has fallen to its lowest level in about two years, per Deribit, and BTC has traded between $93K and $111K over the past two months
Kirk Ogunrinde / Bloomberg :
White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during virtual meetings or listen in their place when they choose not to attend
It happened to my colleague: — www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... X: Ben Podgursky / @bpodgursky : One thing I've noticed is that AI is changing the playing field so fast that I'm not even inve...
Uber drivers in British Columbia join a union, seeking to negotiate Canada's first bargaining agreement for rideshare drivers; Uber has agreed to meet the union
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg :
Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's “center of gravity” will move to the US where the “talent pool is right now”; 70% of its staff is UK-based
Amazing that Bumble's staff weren't charmed by their CEO's approach.... [images] Christopher Mims / @mims : “Dating apps are feeling like a thing of the past” says [checks notes] CEO of a dating app ...
Baidu overhauls its search engine with AI features and a voice function in its most sweeping revamp in years, and rolls out its first image-to-video model
Bloomberg :
Some Chinese universities use AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to “dumb down” their writing or pay for rewriting services
Peiyue Wu / Rest of World :
Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE completed its $13.4B Juniper acquisition, before trading begins on July 9; DDOG jumps 10%+
Datadog Inc (NASDAQ:DDOG) is set to join the S&P 500 index effective … Sarah Fielding / Fast Company : Datadog is joining the S&P 500. Here's what that means and why it matters PR Newswire : Datadog S...
Memphis grants xAI an air permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Boxtown campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over pollution
“This isn't just an environmental issue — it's a public health emergency,” wrote State Rep. Justin Pearson. @wired.com : Colossus allowed xAI to quickly catch up to rivals OpenAI, Google, and Anthropi...
Ripple applies for a US national banking license, which would place its RLUSD stablecoin under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's regulatory remit
More accurately, most are seeking trust bank charters that have some of the *benefits* of being a bank but without all the *restrictions* that apply to traditional banks that take deposits and make lo...
Sources: Netflix has talked to Spotify about projects like a music awards show or a live concert series, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: OpenAI has agreed to rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling ~4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative
OpenAI is dead man walking then, Microsoft owns all the IP, and it burns $60+b in competitor venture capital. … @onefeincat : Enough power to send 3.71 Martys McFly back to 1985, and they're using it ...
Analysis: crypto ventures have added $620M+ to President Trump's fortune in the span of months, faster than his family's traditional real estate licensing deals
https://www.bloomberg.com/... X: @crewcrew : As Trump's administration works to deregulate the crypto industry, his family continues to pursue lucrative crypto ventures - a clear conflict of interest ...
Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like its Comet browser, and priority access to models like o3-pro
I suspect by Q4 what you get for $20/month across all the major players is going to get seriously downgraded, but the average user won't realize/care. — Local models are not keeping up, too. — Rea...