Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic
Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic

Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft’s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” the head of Microsoft’s in-house model effort told Bloomberg in a…

US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs

U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than any other sector and the industry’s heaviest month of reductions in nearly two years.
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Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do
Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should hav…

Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology
Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a singl…

Coursera wants users to learn through shorter, faster content

Coursera has launched an AI-powered short-form content feed that delivers personalized educational videos based on users’ interests and learning habits.

Google wants your app code so badly, it’s willing to pay for it

Google is offering to pay Android developers for access to their code through a “confidential content offer pilot.” The program is framed as a revenue opportunity, but the link in the email tells a different story.

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.
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AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI infrastructure for Africa and the Middle East

AethexAI, a UK voice AI infrastructure company building for enterprises across emerging markets, today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures and the launch of its platform. The rou…

AMD’s Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD’s Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance

AMD’s Helios set to compete against Nvidia’s NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are depl…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming ‘a huge issue’ — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI’s clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they’re asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don’t blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.
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