Paramount Skydance-WBD Merger Agreement Officially Announced

Stephanie Prange / mediaplaynews - Paramount Skydance Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery Feb. 27 announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Paramount will acquire WBD. Under the terms of the agreement, Paramount will pay $31 per share in cash for all outstandi…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Tries To Sell Paramount Deal To Shocked & Disappointed Employees At Town Hall: “We’re The Envy Of All Of The Industry”

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Paramount to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in $110B Deal as Netflix Declines to Match

7 days / iclarified

Five firms guide Paramount on blockbuster Warner Bros deal

7 days / globalcompetitionreview / Ben Remaly

Paramount Skydance-WBD Merger Agreement Officially Announced

7 days / mediaplaynews / Stephanie Prange

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

7 days / arstechnica / Scharon Harding

Paramount agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, pays Netflix $2.8 billion for breakup

7 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI

Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Block cuts 4,000 jobs as Jack Dorsey pivots to an AI-driven model despite rising profits, signaling a broader tech shift toward smaller AI-powered teams.The post More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI appeared firs…

#ai #fintech #digitaltransformation #genai #business #jobs #payments #layoffs #technology

American Express Shares Plunge 8% as Block’s AI-Driven Workforce Cuts Trigger Sector Alarm

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Co-Author of Citrini AI Report Warns of ‘Scary Situation’ for White-Collar Labor After Block Laid Off 4,000 Workers

7 days / reddit / /u/Secure_Persimmon8369

Jack Dorsey made the loudest case yet that AI is already replacing jobs

7 days / cnbc

Block Strategy Points to AI Shaping Corporate Infrastructure

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Block’s Square unit stands to gain most from Dorsey’s AI pivot, analysts say

7 days / theblock / Jason Shubnell

More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI

7 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year'

7 days / reddit / /u/abrownn

The problem with Dorsey's Block layoffs and the veiled nature of AI productivity growth

7 days / reddit / /u/spacetwice2021

Burger King AI Assistant Frees Managers From Back-Office Tasks

PYMNTS / pymnts - Burger King has equipped managers and employees with an artificial intelligence-powered tool called BK Assistant. BK Assistant providers staffers with access to operational guidelines, inventory management and compliance tracking, “enabling them to focus …

#ai #automation #voice #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #food #assistant #digitalprivacy

MiniMax launches managed always-on MaxClaw AI Agent

6 days / testingcatalog / Nero Soares

Don't trust AI agents

6 days / ycombinator

A new benchmark pits five AI models against each other as autonomous social media agents on X

6 days / the-decoder / Tomislav Bezmalinovic

WhatsApp is testing a feature to analyze chats with Meta AI

6 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Burger King AI Assistant Frees Managers From Back-Office Tasks

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Burger King’s New AI Assistant Guides Staff, Tracks Politeness

7 days / eweek / Madeline Clarke

Burger King has launched a war on manners with its new AI chatbot called 'Patty'

7 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

Tim Fernholz / techcrunch - Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system."

#ai #fintech #ml #genai #business #deeptech #technology #api #perplexity

Industry races: multi-agent startups, Chinese models, and multimodal rivals (4)
OTHER: Model auditing reveals systematic biases across major LLMs (1)
Perplexity unveils Computer and high-performance embeddings, orchestrating multi-model workflows (7)
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Industry races: multi-agent startups, Chinese models, and multimodal rivals

DeepSeek to Release V4 Multimodal Model Next Week with Native Image, Video, and Text Generation Support

6 days / pandaily

Following Seedance 2.0, Another Chinese Full-Modal Video Model Enters Artificial Analysis Top 2

6 days / pandaily

Tec-Do Holdings Files for Hong Kong IPO, Poised to Become "Multi-Agent First Stock"

7 days / pandaily

Chinese Models Top OpenRouter Token Rankings as Agent Scenarios Emerge as New Frontier

7 days / pandaily

OTHER: Model auditing reveals systematic biases across major LLMs

I used steelman prompting to audit bias across six major LLMs. The default-to-steelman gap was consistent and measurable.

7 days / reddit / /u/MichaelARichardson

Perplexity unveils Computer and high-performance embeddings, orchestrating multi-model workflows

Perplexity Announces 'Computer,' an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agent

7 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Perplexity’s ‘Computer’ wasn’t always planned

7 days / semafor / Rachyl Jones

Perplexity launches Computer, wants AI to run tasks for months, not minutes

7 days / techspot

Perplexity launches high-performance embedding models

7 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

7 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

Perplexity Computer assigns tasks to AI agents

7 days / techzine / Berry Zwets

Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

7 days / tomshardware

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Perplexity open-sources embedding models that match Google and Alibaba at a fraction of the memory cost

6 days / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

Bitcoin options market signaling “smart money is still paying up for downside protection rather than chasing the pump”

Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / sherwood - Bitcoin is heading toward its worst February since 2020 and its fifth consecutive month in the red.

#blockchain #crypto #stockmarket #business #bitcoin #economy #crypto

Bitcoin pullback and rebounds: volatile swings amid macro headwinds (5)
Crackdown and caution: seizures, ATM bans, probes target crypto (3)
Smart-money hedges: traders buy downside protection amid sell-off (3)
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Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027

Charles Pulliam-Moore / theverge - It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. During today's big Pokémon Presents stream, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Wind and Waves are the next installments in the core game series. …

#gaming #entertainment #business #culture #media #technology #gadgets #videogames #japan

30th-anniversary merchandise and collectibles (4)
Event coverage and recaps (3)
Gen 10 reveal & Switch 2 launch (7)
Starters and fan reaction (3)
All Other Stories

30th-anniversary merchandise and collectibles

Grab Razer’s offcially licensed Pokémon-themed gaming peripherals — themed keyboards, mice, and headsets celebrate 30 years of the franchise

7 days / tomshardware

Happy Pokémon Day. Heres where to buy the 30th-anniversary card collection for the best price.

7 days / mashable

Secretlab has three Pokémon-themed Titan Evo chairs in honor of game's 30th anniversary — special edition seats available in Pikachu, Gengar, and Eevee flavors

7 days / tomshardware

Celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary with this Game Boy-shaped music player

7 days / engadget / Matt Tate

Event coverage and recaps

Pokémon Presents: Every Pokémon Day announcement today

7 days / mashable

Pokémon Presents 2026: All the news and trailers

7 days / theverge / Andrew Webster

Pokémon Presents live blog: tune in to catch all of the biggest announcements

7 days / theshortcut / Adam Vjestica

Gen 10 reveal & Switch 2 launch

Nintendo Announces Pokémon Winds and Waves for 2027 Switch 2 Launch

7 days / techpowerup

Pokémon Winds & Waves Releasing in 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2

7 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Pokémon Presents Reveals Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves, Coming Exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027

7 days / wccftech / David Carcasole

Pokémon Winds and Waves announced for Switch 2

7 days / theshortcut / Kevin Lee

Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027

7 days / theverge / Charles Pulliam-Moore

Pokémon Gen 10 revealed: Winds and Waves coming to Switch 2 in 2027

7 days / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

The Next Generation of ‘Pokémon’ Games Is Here

7 days / gizmodo / James Whitbrook

Starters and fan reaction

Warning: The Gen 10 Pokémon starters will give you major cute aggression

7 days / mashable

‘Pokémon Winds and Waves’ are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027

7 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Pokémon Winds and Waves are coming to Switch 2 in 2027

7 days / engadget / Kris Holt

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7 days / bsky / @techpowerup.com / techpowerup.com

Rowlet and Sobble need to call their lawyers

7 days / bsky / @charlespulliam.bsky.social / charlespulliam.bsky.social

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Scharon Harding / arstechnica - Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

#movies #streaming #entertainment #netflix #stockmarket #business #hbomax #acquisitions #media #tv

Inside Netflix's rethink: strategic relief or missed opportunity? (3)
Paramount's superior bid seals deal; Netflix steps aside (3)
Regulators and Ellison’s empire: what Paramount would control (2)
Trading floors cheer: stocks bounce after Netflix exits WBD (6)
All Other Stories

Inside Netflix's rethink: strategic relief or missed opportunity?

Some extended thoughts on Netflix walking away from Warner Bros... https://spyglass.org/netflix-warner-bros-paramount-deal/

7 days / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Netflix could be streaming media’s most victorious loser

7 days / ft

TUDUMB

7 days / spyglass / John Gruber

Paramount's superior bid seals deal; Netflix steps aside

Netflix Ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery After Paramount's Offer is Deemed Superior

7 days / slashdot / msmash

Netflix Swipes Left on Warner Bros. After Paramount Swoops In

7 days / idropnews / Chris Hauk

Netflix isn’t buying Warner Bros after all, as Paramount swoops in

7 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

Regulators and Ellison’s empire: what Paramount would control

California to Paramount: Assimilate This

7 days / gizmodo / Cheryl Eddy

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control If Paramount Buys Warner Bros.

7 days / wired / Manisha Krishnan

Trading floors cheer: stocks bounce after Netflix exits WBD

Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. — and investors love it

7 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

Netflix Stock Rebounds as Streamer Walks Away From WBD Deal $2.8 Billion Richer

7 days / mediaplaynews / Erik Gruenwedel

Paramount (PSKY) Shares Surge as Netflix Exits Warner Bros Discovery Bidding War

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Netflix loses the war for Warner Bros., Wall Street sees a win

7 days / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

7 days / arstechnica / Scharon Harding

Netflix stock price rises along with Paramount while WBD falls. How the merger shakeup is impacting markets

7 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

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Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance’s merger agreement is now official. Paramount and WBD expect the deal to close in the third quarter of this year. Read more from @emroth08.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

7 days / bsky / @theverge.com / theverge.com

Paramount Skydance (PSKY) Stock: Soars 20% Following $110B Warner Bros Acquisition Deal

7 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

California to Paramount: Assimilate This

7 days / bsky / @io9.com / io9.com

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal gets approved. www.wired.com/story/everyt...

7 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger

7 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Some extended thoughts on Netflix walking away from Warner Bros...

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"Paramount poised to become the new owner of WBD, ... DC Comics...the HBO Max streaming service and cable channels CNN and TBS." This antitrust violation is in aid of right-wing technocrats who have seized Paramount. They will turn these media

7 days / bsky / @johnshirley2024.bsky.social / johnshirley2024.bsky.social

Leaked audio: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav tells employees Paramount deal felt 'whiplash-y'

7 days / reddit / /u/cmaia1503

CNN’s Jake Tapper Breaks News of Paramount Buying Network’s Parent Company WBD Live on Air: "It Affects Everybody I’m Looking at Right Now in the Studio"

7 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Japan Injects $1.7 Billion Into Rapidus, Retains Veto Power Over Chip Startup

Harkaram Grewal / implicator - Japan secures veto power over Rapidus with golden share as $1.7B funding round from 32 companies exceeds targets for 2nm chip venture.

#semiconductors #techpolicy #chips #government #business #supplychain #asia #manufacturing #technology #japan

Rapidus Secures $1.7 Billion in Funding to Back 2 nm Mass Production Plans by 2027

7 days / techpowerup

Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027

7 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

Japan Injects $1.7 Billion Into Rapidus, Retains Veto Power Over Chip Startup

7 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Rapidus secures $1.7 billion from Japan’s government and private investors for 2nm chip production — company says it is in active discussions with more than 60 potential customers

7 days / tomshardware

Japan bets $1.7B on Rapidus 2nm chips with METI, Toyota, SoftBank backing

7 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Duolingo shares plunge 23% after weak 2026 bookings forecast

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Duolingo forecast first-quarter and full-year bookings below analyst estimates as it shifts strategy toward faster user growth, a move it said will weigh on bookings growth and profitability this year. The company’s shares dropped more than 23% in after-h…

#ai #elearning #mobile #stockmarket #earnings #business #apps #technology

Duolingo Bets on User Growth to Outpace AI Disruption

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Duolingo Stock Plunges 20% Following Strategic Shift and Wave of Analyst Downgrades

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Duolingo stock is falling off a cliff, continuing a dramatic collapse. You can’t just blame that ‘AI first’ memo

7 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Duolingo shares plunge 23% after weak 2026 bookings forecast

7 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Duolingo Shares Plunge 23% on Disappointing 2026 Bookings Forecast

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - Apple is taking an "ain't broke/don't fix" approach to most of its gadgets.

#hardware #apple #business #supplychain #pricing #manufacturing #macbook #technology #gadgets #advertising

Apple teases 'big week'; low-cost MacBook and launches incoming. (5)
Other: Mac mini AI use and macOS downgrade guidance. (2)
Studio Display refresh rumors hint at Pro model, higher specs. (3)
Touchscreen MacBook debate revives Jobs' objections amid design fixes. (2)
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Apple teases 'big week'; low-cost MacBook and launches incoming.

Get Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air M4 for $1,049 with this weekend deal

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Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

7 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

What Apple's launching in March, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

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A cheap MacBook is the perfect way for Apple to win over Windows users

7 days / engadget / Devindra Hardawar

Apple’s hotly-awaited low-cost MacBook might not be so low-cost, after all

7 days / digitaltrends

Other: Mac mini AI use and macOS downgrade guidance.

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

7 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Why is everyone obsessed with the M4 Mac Mini? Turns out, Clawdbot makes it your 24/7 AI agent

7 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Studio Display refresh rumors hint at Pro model, higher specs.

Apple Testing Two Studio Display Models With Upgraded Audio and Ports [Leak]

7 days / iclarified

Studio Display Pro rumors resurface after code references suggest a premium model

7 days / appleinsider

Two More Studio Display 2 Upgrades Leaked in New Report

7 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Touchscreen MacBook debate revives Jobs' objections amid design fixes.

New Touchscreen MacBook Details Emerge, Plus What to Expect at Apple's Big Event video

7 days / cnet / Bridget Carey

Steve Jobs Said a Touchscreen MacBook Wouldn't Work. But Times Have Changed

7 days / cnet / Bridget Carey

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Two More Studio Display 2 Upgrades Leaked in New Report

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eBay Announces Workforce Reduction of 800 Employees Amid Strategic Overhaul

Trader Edge / parameter - eBay eliminates 800 positions in restructuring effort while acquiring Depop for $1.2B and reporting Q4 revenue growth of 15% to $2.97 billion.The post eBay Announces Workforce Reduction of 800 Employees Amid Strategic Overhaul appeared first on Parameter.

#ecommerce #digitaltransformation #business #jobs #acquisitions #layoffs #technology

eBay Announces Workforce Reduction of 800 Employees Amid Strategic Overhaul

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

eBay cuts 800 jobs after Depop acquisition

7 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

eBay to cut 800 jobs despite 15% revenue growth

7 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

eBay (EBAY) Stock: Falls After 800 Employees Impacted Despite Strong Q4 Revenue

7 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank

cnbc - OpenAI's latest funding round is even bigger than its prior financing, which was a record amount for private tech companies.

#ai #techpolicy #openai #genai #privateequity #business #altman #regulation

Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round (15)
On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments (6)
OTHER: user metrics and market reaction (2)
Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting (5)
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Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

7 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

OpenAI Hits $730B Valuation as Amazon and NVIDIA Lead $110B Mega-Round

7 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

OpenAI lands $110B at $730B valuation led by SoftBank, NVIDIA, Amazon

7 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Mega investment: OpenAI raises $110 billion from Amazon and Nvidia

7 days / techzine / Berry Zwets

OpenAI Secures Historic $110B Investment from Tech Giants Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

OpenAI Announces $110 Billion Funding Round Involving Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

7 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

7 days / ycombinator

OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank

7 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

7 days / ycombinator

OpenAI secures blockbuster $110 billion funding round valuing company at $730 billion

7 days / sherwood / Claire Yubin Oh

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history

7 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank

7 days / cnbc

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in the Largest Private Funding Round Ever

7 days / slashdot / msmash

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion

7 days / wsj / Kate Clark

OpenAI secures up to $110bn in record funding deal

7 days / ft

On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion to Build Global AI Infrastructure

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon strikes $50B OpenAI deal

7 days / axios / Ina Fried

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, comitting to 2 gigawatts of Trainium silicon — AWS to become exclusive cloud distributor for Frontier enterprise platform

7 days / tomshardware

(PR) OpenAI and Amazon Announce Strategic Partnership

7 days / techpowerup

OpenAI raises $110bn in round double the size of previous goal

7 days / siliconrepublic / Laura Varley

Amazon, Nvidia Flood OpenAI With Cash as ChatGPT Maker’s Valuation Hits $730 Billion

7 days / decrypt / Andrew Hayward

OTHER: user metrics and market reaction

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Stock: Leads $110B OpenAI Funding Round with $50B Commitment

7 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users

7 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting

Draining every single possible funding source available to keep OpenAI from dying as Sam Altman goes on TV and says "if money doesn't keep flowing into the system it fails" https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-raise-additional-10-billion-fundin

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Joined the Tech Report to talk about OpenAI's not-really-$110bn funding round, the greater AI bubble, and why everyone still trying to live out the world as if it's 2019 is going to face a reckoning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgZDSVcg20

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion & Throws In With Amazon as Capital Arms Race Rages

7 days / newcomer / Tom Dotan

OpenAI's up to $110 billion raise lines up almost exactly with the $111 billion it just added to its cash burn forecast

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI announcing “$110 billion” in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazon’s $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. It’ll

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

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OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

7 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

7 days / theregister / Tobias Mann

OpenAI Closes Biggest AI Deal Ever

7 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms has signed an agreement to rent Google’s tensor processing units through Google Cloud to develop new AI models. The deal marks a major expansion of Google’s TPU commercialization strategy, which previously restricted the chips to its own in…

#ai #cloud #ml #meta #chips #google #genai #business #datacenter

Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google is aggressively moving into Nvidia’s territory by leasing and selling training chips. https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-ai-chip-deal-with-google-as-it/

7 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Meta reportedly strikes multi-billion dollar AI chip deal with Google as it struggles to design its own

7 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta scraps advanced AI training chip after design roadblocks

7 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta Secures Google TPU Partnership Alongside Nvidia and AMD Chip Contracts

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the real reasons predate the hype

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Jack Dorsey blames AI for cutting nearly half of Block's workforce. But a closer look at the company's history of overhiring and structural problems tells a different story.The article Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the rea…

#ai #automation #fintech #digitaltransformation #genai #stockmarket #business #jobs #payments #layoffs

Breaking: Block slashes staff 40%, Dorsey defends AI pivot (7)
Corporate fallout: CFOs and finance teams rethink operations (1)
Critics: ‘AI excuse’ covers COVID-era overhiring and restructuring (7)
Markets roar: stock surges, futures fall, analysts upgrade (4)
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Breaking: Block slashes staff 40%, Dorsey defends AI pivot

Dorsey swings the axe at Block in “extreme step” to “replace human labor with compute power”

7 days / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Block Lays Off 4,000 (of 10,000) Employees

7 days / cnbc / John Gruber

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

7 days / arstechnica / Peter Wells and Akila Quinio, Financial Times

Jack Dorsey says AI is driving Block's massive layoffs as 4,000+ roles are cut

7 days / techspot

Morning Minute: Jack Dorsey Slashes 40% of Block's Jobs Due to AI

7 days / decrypt / Tyler Warner

How Jack Dorsey Explained Cutting Almost Half of Block’s Staff

7 days / wsj / Ben Dummett

Jack Dorsey’s Block to slash staff by 40% over AI progress

7 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Corporate fallout: CFOs and finance teams rethink operations

Block job cuts prompt CFO AI questions

7 days / paymentsdive / Adam Zaki

Critics: ‘AI excuse’ covers COVID-era overhiring and restructuring

Dorsey’s ‘AI Transformation’ Triggers Block Surge And ‘AI Washing’ Skepticism

7 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Jack Dorsey’s Block Cut Half Its Staff, and He Says Other Tech Firms Will Follow Soon

7 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Block's 24% Stock Jump Will Cost More Jobs Than Its AI Ever Could

7 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 4,000 and blames AI. Is it just a convenient excuse?

7 days / qz / Catherine Baab

Jack Dorsey makes a grim prediction about the future of work as he lays off 4,000 Block employees in AI push

7 days / fastcompany / Sarah Fielding

Opinion: Block's layoffs might just be the biggest story of a tumultuous week. Here's why

7 days / cnbc

Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the real reasons predate the hype

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Markets roar: stock surges, futures fall, analysts upgrade

Block (XYZ) Receives Upgraded Price Targets Following Major Workforce Restructuring

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Stock Futures Tumble as Block’s Massive AI-Driven Layoffs Shake Wall Street

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Netflix drops its WBD bid, Block layoffs, Anthropic's DOD deadline and more in Morning Squawk

7 days / cnbc

Block soars after announcing 40% workforce cut amid AI push

7 days / sherwood / Hyunsoo Rim

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Jack Dorsey’s Block Cut Half Its Staff, and He Says Other Tech Firms Will Follow Soon https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorseys-block-cut-half-its-staff-and-he-says-other-tech-firms-will-follow-soon-2000727594

7 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

In a 600-word X post, Jack Dorsey justifies his decision to lay off 40% of Block’s workforce

7 days / fastcompany / Pavithra Mohan

Jack Dorsey’s Block to slash staff by 40% over AI progress www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

7 days / bsky / @semafor.com / semafor.com

ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed To Improve In-Orbit Mobility

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - InSpacePropulsion Technologies (ISPTech), a German space technology company focused on fast and agile in-orbit manoeuvring, has raised €5.5 million to accelerate deployment of its non-toxic propulsion systems for operational missions. The funding round wa…

#vc #innovation #space #business #aerospace #deeptech #europe #engineering #technology #satellite

ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed To Improve In-Orbit Mobility

7 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

ISPTech secures €5.5M seed to improve in-orbit mobility

7 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Amsterdam’s Sparqle secures €1.5 million with EU backing to scale emission-free delivery across Europe

7 days / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

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