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Stripe has laid off a few dozen employees, most of them recruiters, in its human resources department.
The staff cuts, while affecting a tiny percentage of the company’s roughly 7,000-person workforce, are part of a broader wave of belt tightening in tech, even as the pace of larger layoffs has abated. Stripe’s cuts in the recruiting division are part of an effort to reorient locations where the company plans to hire, a person familiar with the matter said.
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The Miss Universe 2025 winner is Miss Mexico Fátima Bosch. She took the crown after weeks of drama at the pageant. Read more ›
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Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ages. Microsoft announced today that the code for Zork, Zork II and Zork III will be made available open source under the MIT License. The company's Open Source Programs Office, Xbox and Activision all contributed to... Read more ›
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Only nine American women have won the Miss Universe pageant in its 74-year history. R'Bonney Gabriel was the last Miss USA to take the crown. Read more ›
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Microsoft will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and Nvidia will invest $10 billion in the startup, the three companies announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anthropic will spend at least $30 billion to rent servers from Microsoft’s Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more ›
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Apple’s succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely won’t happen until after late January when ... Read more ›
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Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of the ChatGPT-maker for two years. His departure follows his decision to step back from public commitments in... Read more ›
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more ›
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The White House is working on an executive order that will direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass their own laws regulating artificial intelligence, according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Information. The order, which is still in the drafting phase, could change. The timeline for when it will be formally announced is also unclear. The move is part of a long-standing effort this year... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startup’s next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more ›
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Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the U.S., moving ahead with its plan to list despite a recent-sell of crypto-related stocks. The filing comes a day after it raised $200 million from Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities at a $20 ... Read more ›
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Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the company’s newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman is a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more ›
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