Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $10B, significantly above the previously reported $5B, due to strong investor demand
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @hunterwalk.com : i dont want to be up in anyone's bag, but i think Mike Krieger might make more money from being a non-founder at Anthropic than he did being a found...
Sources: Perplexity is seeking funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its fundraising round in July 2025 and $520M in January 2024
But Not Only — An AI-Centric Bunch Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai : Gemini 90%, GPT-5 79% — DeepSeek retreats to Nvidia; Google turns on memory Chaitanya Kohli / MEDIANAMA : From Defender to Buyer: Wh...
CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity
#DataCenters — #CoreWeave — #PowerIsTheMoat @notreload : $CRWV -2.8%, $CORZ -18% [CoreWeave's all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific caused Core Scientific's stock to fall due to investor disapp...
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats
here's where you'll see them (and where you won't) Capital Brief : Meta to roll out ads on WhatsApp and offer paid subscriptions Katie Hicks / Marketing Brew : Ads are coming to WhatsApp Colin Kirklan...
China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall for global internet access, as the island seeks to become a free-trade port
China's southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet … Bluesky: @emilprotalinski . Forums: Slashdot Bluesky: Emil Protali...
A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations
We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski . X: @kylebrussell , @ryp__ , and @eilperi...
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys
Upgrade Your Email Account Today Vinayak Guhanarayan / MakeUseOf : You'll Never Have to Create a Microsoft Account Password Again Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : Microsoft makes passwords a thing of t...
Epic v. Apple: a judge says Phil Schiller wanted Apple to comply with the court order, but Tim Cook ignored him, and its finance VP “outright lied under oath”
Tim Cook ‘Chose Poorly’ Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : A company executive lied under oath? And the US will do nothing? Say it ain't so! [embedded post] Erin Casali / @folletto : Whi...
Google says it is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to all Gemini users, after initially launching the model for Gemini Advanced subscribers on March 25
No Subscription Needed The Economic Times : Google rolls out experimental version of Gemini 2.5 Pro for free users The Hindu : Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro rolled out to all users days after launch Alan Ma...