Amazon cutting another 16,000 jobs
Ben Berkowitz / axios - Amazon said Wednesday it will cut another 16,000 jobs, just three months after slashing 14,000 roles across the company in a broad efficiency drive.The big picture: Companies have become outspoken about trying to do more with fewer people, for a mix of re…
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b2venture closes €150M Fund V at hard cap to support the next generation of European tech leaders
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - b2venturehas closed its Fund V at €150 million, reaching the hard cap and marking thefirm’s largest early-stage fund to date. The fund is supported by a mix oflong-standing and new limited partners, i...
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ASML bookings nearly double expectations on AI demand
Erik van Klinken / techzine - ASML reported record quarterly bookings of 13.2 billion euros in Q4 2025, nearly doubling analyst predictions. The Dutch chip equipment maker’s results highlight once more that the AI infrastructure buildout shows no signs of slowing down. The Veldhoven-b…
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SK Hynix doubles 2025 profit as AI memory shortages drive earnings beat
cnbc - South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, to beat estimates.
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Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
BeauHD / slashdot - Amazon appears to have prematurely acknowledged layoffs inside AWS after an internal email referencing "organizational changes" and "impacted colleagues" was mistakenly sent to cloud employees. CNBC reports: "Changes like this are hard on everyone," Colle…
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Apple Plans to Keep iPhone 18 Prices Steady Despite Rising Component Costs [Kuo]
iclarified - Apple is facing a significant increase in component costs, particularly for memory, but the company reportedly plans to absorb those expenses rather than pass them on to consumers with the iPhone 18. TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says A…
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Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)
Anna Heim / techcrunch - Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwagon.
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Anthropic Close to Finalizing Fundraising Deal at $350 Billion Valuation
PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic is close to finalizing a fundraising deal in which it will raise $20 billion and be valued at $350 billion, the Financial Times reported Tuesday (Jan. 27), citing unnamed sources. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup doubled the amount it wa…
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Crypto Payments Startup Mesh Hits $1 Billion Unicorn Valuation
Andrew Hayward / decrypt - Mesh, which lets businesses take crypto payments across networks, added $75 million to its war chest, achieving “unicorn” status in the process.
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Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Google's AI Plus is coming to the US and 34 other new countries today, and it's available at just $3.99/month for the first two months for new subscribers.The post Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US appeared first…
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iOS 26.3's New Privacy Setting Lets You Hide Your Exact Location
bgr - Once iOS 26.3 rolls out, iPhone owners will gain access to a new privacy feature that limits the precision of the location cellular networks can see.
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Google AI Overviews Now Powered By Gemini 3 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Matt G. Southern / searchenginejournal - Google is making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews and adding a direct path to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode.The post Google AI Overviews Now Powered By Gemini 3 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Pinterest layoffs today: 15% of jobs cut as social media giant is latest to cite shift to AI
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - Nike isn’t the only household corporate name to announce significant layoffs this week. Just a day after the sporting goods giant announced layoffs, citing a further embrace of automation, social media giant Pinterest has announced it will cut jobs. The d…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
msmash / slashdot - Samsung said today that its Galaxy Z TriFold, the first tri-fold smartphone to ship in the U.S., will be available starting January 30 at a price point of $2,899 -- substantially more expensive than any other phone on the U.S. market, including Samsung's …
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With Clue and Lovehoney as partners, Evaro secures €21 million to expand NHS-licensed embedded health services
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Evaro, an NHS-licensed digital healthcare platform serving over 2 million patients, today announced it has closed a €21 million ($25 million) Series A funding round to expand across treatment areas (women’s health, men’s health, and longevity medicine), c…
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Micron builds $24 bn Singapore chip fab as AI demand soars
techxplore - US chip firm Micron said Tuesday it was building a $24 billion plant in Singapore to help meet soaring AI-driven demand that has caused a global shortage of memory components.
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Ricursive Intelligence nabs $300M to speed up chip design with AI
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Ricursive Intelligence Inc., a startup that plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up chip development, has raised $300 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation. Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Recursive disclosed in its funding announc…
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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
ft - Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful AI in years to come
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Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Google could owe you some money, now that it's moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated by something other than Google Assistant's actual trigger word, "Ok Google." German outlet VRT N…
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Target, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills CEOs finally spoke up about ICE after weeks of silence. Here’s what they said
Grace Snelling / fastcompany - For weeks, the leaders of Minnesota’s most prominent businesses have remained tight-lipped as thousands of ICE agents have flooded the Twin Cities, where those agents have raided residential neighborhoods, detained employees from local businesses, and tak…
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