GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers

General Motors is laying off thousands of workers across multiple electric vehicle and battery plants in the United States. According to multiple news outlets, around 1,200 employees at the company’s electric vehicle factory in Detroit, Michigan, are being placed on…

Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

Microsoft Azure is experiencing a significant outage this Wednesday. The problems began around noon Eastern Time. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page. According to the company, they suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered the problem.…

Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity giant Apollo. Bending Spoons says it has secured a 2.8 billion dollar debt…

Character.AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids

Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They are bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. Now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed to never stop talking,…

How AI labs use Mercor to get the data companies won’t share

Artificial intelligence labs are adopting a new strategy to acquire data. Instead of signing expensive contracts with companies, they are now tapping former senior employees for their industry knowledge. This shift was discussed by Mercor CEO Brendan Foody at TechCrunch…