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YouTube offers voluntary buyouts as company reorganizes around AI
A Youtube podcast microphone is seen at the Variety Podcasting Brunch Presented By YouTube at Austin Proper Hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 8, 2025. Mat Hayward | Variety | Getty Images YouTube is offering voluntary buyouts with severance for U.S.-based employees as it restructures its product organization to focus more on artificial intelligence. The […]
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Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft took a $3.1 billion hit to its net income in the first quarter […]
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.4 billion loss in third quarter
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta continues to sink money into the metaverse, anchored by virtual reality and augmented […]
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OpenAI introduces safety models that other sites can use to classify harms
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC OpenAI on Wednesday announced two reasoning models that developers can use to classify a range of online safety harms on […]
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Microsoft reports earnings beat as Azure revenue climbs 40%
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Axel Springer Neubau in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. Ben Kriemann | Getty Images Microsoft reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company’s Azure cloud business jumped 40%. The stock slipped in extended trading. Earnings per share: $4.13 adjusted vs. $3.67 per share expected […]
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Powell says AI is different from dotcom bubble and is major source of economic growth
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve on Oct. 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence boom is different from the dotcom bubble of […]
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Snowflake says exec shared unauthorized guidance in Instagram street interview
The Snowflake Inc logo, which represents the American cloud computing-based data company that offers cloud-based storage and analytics services, is being displayed on their pavilion at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Snowflake had to make a Securities and Exchange Commission filing […]
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Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft was hit with outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the […]
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Alphabet set to report Q3 earnings after the bell Wednesday
Alphabet is set to report third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting according to LSEG consensus: Revenue: $99.89 billion Earnings per share: $2.33 Wall Street is also watching several other numbers in the report: YouTube advertising revenue: $10.01 billion, according to StreetAccount Google Cloud revenue: $14.74 billion, according to StreetAccount Traffic acquisition costs (TAC): $14.82 […]
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Meta to report third-quarter earnings after the bell
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta is slated to report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell […]
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