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Microsoft reportedly laying off thousands more, especially in sales

Fresh off the heels of more than 6,000 layoffs announced last month, Microsoft is looking to slash its workforce even further.

Bloomberg reports that the tech giant is planning to announce thousands more cuts, particularly in sales. The prior round of cuts had focused largely on product and engineering roles.

As of the end of June, Microsoft had 228,000 workers, of whom 45,000 were in sales and marketing.

Shares of the company were largely unchanged on the news.

As of the end of June, Microsoft had 228,000 workers, of whom 45,000 were in sales and marketing.

Shares of the company were largely unchanged on the news.

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In the past few weeks, OpenAI has announced a flurry of massive deals with Oracle, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and others as hundreds of billions fly between technology partners racing to expand AI infrastructure at unprecedented scale. The Financial Times tallied it all up and found that the company has signed about $1 trillion worth of deals, and it isn’t clear at all that it will be able to fund them.

The “circular” nature of some of these arrangements is also one factor playing into fears that we’re in an AI bubble.

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Tesla abandoned plans to make thousands of Optimus robots this year

At the start of this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on an earnings call that his company planned to build 10,000 Optimus robots for internal use in 2025. On that same call, he hedged and said he thought the company would definitely build “several thousand” of the bots and that they would “be doing useful things by the end of the year.” Tesla apparently abandoned those plans this summer, according to new reporting from The Information, amid “difficulty Tesla has had with the hands for the robots” and other problems.

The importance of Optimus to Tesla has skyrocketed as sales of the company’s EVs have fallen. Last month, Musk said Optimus would some day amount to 80% of the value of Tesla.

Musk, who has been continually sharing videos of Optimus on X, reportedly hopes to impress investors next month at the company’s annual shareholder meeting with a “dancing troupe of Optimus bots.”

The importance of Optimus to Tesla has skyrocketed as sales of the company’s EVs have fallen. Last month, Musk said Optimus would some day amount to 80% of the value of Tesla.

Musk, who has been continually sharing videos of Optimus on X, reportedly hopes to impress investors next month at the company’s annual shareholder meeting with a “dancing troupe of Optimus bots.”

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Microsoft-backed OpenAI now has 800 million weekly users for ChatGPT — up from 700 million last month — according to CEO Sam Altman, who spoke during the company’s developer conference today. For those who are counting, that’s about 736 million more users than Grok has each month.

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OpenAI’s Altman: Sora will let copyright holders control how their characters appear

The buzzy AI video generation app is tweaking its lax controls for generating copyrighted characters in users’ videos.

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