Microsoft announced 4,800 job cuts, and Xbox is taking the biggest hit: about 3,200 roles over the next year. The company says Xbox has been losing money on studio investments, and leadership is restructuring to stop those losses. This is not a company-wide purge. Microsoft’s core cloud and enterprise businesses remain intact. The cuts mainly target costly game […]
Meta has been racing to build top-tier AI. After its Muse Spark model launched in April and got mixed reviews, the company now says a newer model called Watermelon is training and already matches OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in some tests. Meta is also promising big coding and “agent” improvements soon. Why the change now? Meta created a SuperIntelligence Lab and
Sony has announced that from January 2028 onward, new PlayStation games will no longer come on physical discs. Instead, every new title will be sold as a digital download through the PlayStation Store and other online retailers. This follows years of players buying most games online already — Sony says about 85% of full-game sales on PS4
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Companies that rushed to replace people with artificial intelligence are now hiring some of them back. Big names — Ford, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IBM among them — found that automated systems missed important problems or broke under real-world pressure. Instead of saving money straight away, those firms discovered gaps that only experienced humans could fill, and
June’s showdown between Washington and big AI labs — capped by Sam Altman’s FT appeal — marks a turning point. After the Mythos and Fable episodes, regulators moved from cautionary whispers to visible pressure, forcing labs to pause or retract advanced releases. Altman’s proposal for a U.S. led forum to set safety standards reflects industry recognition that self-regulation
The U.S. government briefly pulled Anthropic’s Fable 5 from public access in mid-June after researchers found ways to bypass its safety checks. Nearly three weeks later, Anthropic reopened Fable 5 after the Commerce Department lifted export controls; the model now runs with tighter filters and limits on use while the company and regulators review risks. Anthropic
Sonnet 5 delivers clear, measurable improvements in agentic coding and multi-step reasoning versus Sonnet 4.6, adding browser and terminal capabilities and longer-context operation that make it a more practical, lower-cost tool for knowledge-work automation. However, Sonnet 5 shows weaker cybersecurity benchmark results than 4.6, which Anthropic says reflects a lack of deliberate security training. That shortfall matters for
Meta’s Brain2Qwerty is a new AI system that tries to turn brain activity into typed text by looking at signals linked to language and movement, rather than reading “thoughts” in a magical way. It is still a research system, but it shows that non-invasive brain scanning may one day help people communicate again without surgery. In Version
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