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Big Tech

Microsoft Gives Xbox Hard Reset with Mass Layoffs

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma plans to eliminate about 20% of staff by the end of fiscal 2027, starting with 1,600 Xbox employees yesterday.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI, Anthropic Speed Toward IPOs Amid Growing Scrutiny of Token Payments

Enterprise customers have begun to doubt the burdensome cost of pay-per-use token consumption and are looking to cheaper models.

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Big Tech

Google Gains Spot on Dow Jones While Losing Street Cred in AI

Google shares have been hammered recently as two top artificial intelligence researchers spurned the company to join OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Consumer

Coca-Cola Shakes Up $20 Billion Tax Dispute

The Big Four accounting firms (minus Coke’s auditor EY) submitted briefs supporting Coca-Cola, which seems confident of a win.

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Big Tech

Apple Joins the High-Tech Price-Hike Club

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Samsung, Dell, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all recently announced price hikes to their consumer electronics.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia Introduces PCs Made for Agentic AI Power-Users

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Running AI agents around the clock can consume hundreds of millions, or even billions, of tokens (units of data) a week.

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Big Tech

Goldman Sachs Spots Buying Opportunity in Bruised Big Tech

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The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF, which tracks Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla, has slid roughly 11% this year.

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