Microsoft has offered buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce, while it spends tens of billions on AI data centers. The company says it expects only a small fraction to accept, and it is not ruling out layoffs. …
After months trailing rivals, Google has opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying users at roughly a fifth of its rivals’ per-token price. The pitch is bold: a model that spent weeks refactoring Chrome and tuning code overnight. …
Continue readingGoogle’s Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public, Priced to Win Back the Frontier
Microsoft says its third-generation Maia chip, arriving in 2027, packs 96 accelerators into one rack and aims to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. The real story is how much of that gain comes from rethinking data movement rather than just adding power. …
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Maia 300 Bets on Inference-First Design to Power the Agentic AI Era
The U.S. just froze green card sponsorship at Microsoft, Adobe and six IT giants, and proposed a $70,000 fee on student work permits. Behind the policy fight are engineers who left home, built lives here, and now do not know if they can stay. …
Newly unredacted court documents reveal that tech executives knew their rushed AI products would trigger self-destructive economic cycles, quietly warning of a snake-eating-its-tail reality that is now upending creative industries, media, and the open web. …
Continue readingInside the Economic Doom Loops Built by Big Tech’s AI Rush
A major new global survey reveals that optimism about artificial intelligence outpaces fear in nearly every country polled, even as most respondents admit they have never actually used the technology. …
Continue readingGlobal AI Optimism Outweighs Fear, But Familiarity Breeds Trust
Apple is replacing Qualcomm with its custom C2 modem in the new iPhone lineup, but American buyers of the iPhone 18 Pro Max are mysteriously left out of the upgrade. …
Continue readingApple’s C2 Modem Rollout and the US-Exclusion Controversy
Nvidia is storming the Windows PC market this October with its Arm-based RTX Spark superchips, bringing desktop-class AI power and up to 128GB of unified memory to ultra-thin laptops. …
Continue readingNvidia’s RTX Spark Superchips Arrive in October to Reshape the AI Laptop Market
A brief 40-minute compromise of an open-source AI development tool has exposed terabytes of sensitive credentials belonging to tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Samsung. …
Continue readingLiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack Exposes Terabytes of Enterprise Secrets
Travelers connecting to public Wi-Fi at hotels and conference centers are facing a stealthy new threat as state-sponsored hackers compromise network gateways to push convincing fake software updates and harvest credentials. …