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Layoffs Don’t Shrink Tech Employee Numbers for Long
Meta Platforms’ job cuts at its Reality Labs division this past week, where it let go about 10% of the unit, were the first of what could be another wave of layoffs at big tech companies this year. ...

Musk Seeks Up to $110 Billion from OpenAI
If Elon Musk wins his breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI, the company should have to give up between $65.5 billion and $109.43 billion to Musk, lawyers for the billionaire argued in a ...

Tech Leaders Thirsty for Social Media Fame Are Hiring These LinkedIn Ghostwriters
Today’s Silicon Valley elite have no shortage of ways to command attention. They might author a Substack, launch a podcast—or station themselves directly within the mecca of business think-fluenci...

Italian Competition Authority Investigates Activision Blizzard’s Promotions and Parental Controls
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) launched two investigations into the Microsoft-owned gaming company Activision Blizzard, alleging that it engaged in “misleading and aggressive practices.”...

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,...

Kilo launches AI-powered Slack bot that ships code from a chat message
Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, a...

Anthropic appoints Microsoft veteran Irina Ghose to lead India expansion
Anthropic appointed Irina Ghose, former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business as the company prepares to open an office in Bengaluru. Ghose, with 24 years at Microsoft until De...

Wikimedia Foundation secures AI data deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and more
Coinciding with its 25th anniversary celebrations, the Wikimedia Foundation has publicly unveiled a significant expansion of its commercial partnerships, welcoming major technology firms including Ama...

A Pocket of Enterprise Software Investors Still Love
What do you get when you offset investors’ recent loathing of software startups with their lust for defense tech? Fast-growing Onebrief, the latest startup to double its valuation in a short span af...

Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Join Wikimedia’s Commercial Platform for AI Training
Wikipedia gained support from five more companies that use its content to train their artificial intelligence platforms. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity formalized their ...

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