YouTube announces ‘voluntary exit program’ for US staff

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday.

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Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Alphabet/Google reported that it earned a net income of $35 billion on revenues of $102.3 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2025.The post Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of invol…

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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip

Shannon Carroll / qz - Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins

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Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL

John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies.Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by priva...

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Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Grammarly is rebranding to Superhuman and launching the Superhuman suite, which includes its popular proof-reading tool, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new Superhuman Go AI assistant.The post Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite appear…

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Berlin’s AnyTax Raises €1M Pre-seed To Launch Embedded Tax Solutions For Financial Platforms

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Berlin-based AnyTax has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to develop its embedded tax infrastructure for financial platforms, emerging from stealth this week. The funding round attracted investors from the financial, tax, and accounting sectors, inclu…

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Chegg replaces CEO and cuts 45% of staff as AI decimates its one-time $12 billion business

techspot - Having started as a digital and physical textbook rental service, Chegg later expanded to offer homework help, tutoring, and study tools. It offers subscription services that cost between $15 and $20 per month.Read Entire Article

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Apple just hit a $4-trillion market cap as strong iPhone 17 sales drive a stock rally

Alex Daniel, Shannon Carroll / qz - The tech giant rode a fresh market surge to hit the milestone, amid strong early sales for its new iPhone model in the U.S. and China

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Rotterdam’s Builders raises €3M to scale enterprise AI startups and launch €25M fund

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Rotterdam-based venture studio Builders has raised an additional €3 million, bringing its total funding to €4.5 million. The…

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Danish regtech Formalize raises €30M to scale its GRC automation platform across Europe

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Across Europe, small and mid-sized businesses are facing an ever-expanding maze of compliance obligations. Regulations like GDPR, DORA,…

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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers

Sean McLain / wsj - The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.

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Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic launches 'Claude for Excel,' a new AI tool that directly competes with Microsoft's Copilot by targeting the financial services industry with deep data integrations.The post Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch ap…

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X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good

Laurent Giret / thurrott - X/Twitter is urging users who set up two-factor authentication with a security key to make some changes, as it’s preparing to fully retire the twitter.com domain.The post X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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How Mercor’s human-in-the-loop AI platform went from college dropouts to $10B startup

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The scarcity of high-quality human expertise necessary for training and improving advanced models like ChatGPT has emerged as…

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