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Meta Cuts 3,600 Jobs Amidst AI Hiring Push

Meta is cutting approximately 3,600 jobs (5% of its workforce) globally today, primarily through performance-based terminations, while simultaneously expanding its AI engineering teams, reflecting an industry-wide shift towards specialized talent acquisition.

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Google Maps at 20: Technological Innovation and Global Dominance

Google Maps, launched on February 8, 2005, in the US, uses tile technology to provide fast, user-friendly mapping services, resulting in nearly 780 billion kilometers of annual user-assisted travel globally, achieved through strategic acquisitions and mobile integration, now leveraging AI for real-t...

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Sustainable Cities and Communities
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MobilEye's Financial Setback Amid Autonomous Driving Push

MobilEye, an Intel subsidiary and ADAS market leader, experienced a 20% market value drop following disappointing financial results this week, despite ongoing advancements in autonomous driving technologies like 'MobilEye Chauffeur' and 'MobilEye Drive' developed in partnerships with various automak...

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Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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Google Scraps DEI Hiring Goals Amid Broader Tech Industry Shift

Google has ended its goal of hiring more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing its DEI programs, following a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and pressure from conservative groups, mirroring similar actions by other tech companies like Meta and Amazon.

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CFPB Halted Amidst Billionaire-Fueled Backlash

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, under pressure from President Trump and tech billionaires including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg who sought to limit the agency's power, ordered a halt to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's operations on Monday.

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Hoffman: AI Investment Too Low, Predicts "Cognitive Industrial Revolution

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder, argues that current AI investment is too low, predicting a significant technological shift. He uses AI for fact-checking in his new book, "Superagency," and discusses the technology's potential for both good and bad applications, while criticizing Elon Musk's recen...

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Quality Education
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Paid Social Media: A BBC Editor's Xperience

A BBC Technology editor paid for a Twitter Blue subscription on Elon Musk's X platform to obtain verification and access to the AI chatbot, Grok, noting both advantages (longer posts, reduced ads) and disadvantages (increased spam). This trend reflects a broader shift in social media towards user-ba...

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Amazon Invests $100 Billion in Cloud and AI Amidst DeepSeek Competition

Amazon plans to invest over $100 billion in cloud and AI by 2025, a response to increased competition from the low-cost AI model of Chinese startup DeepSeek and following similar large investments by Google and Microsoft; Amazon's AWS cloud revenue grew by 19% to $28.8 billion in Q4 2024.

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Google Scraps Diversity Goals Amidst Trump Administration Policies

Google announced it is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals due to new requirements stemming from President Trump's executive order ending government DEI programs, recent court decisions, and its status as a federal contractor; this follows similar actions by other tech companies ...

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Gender Equality
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Alphabet Stock Plunges 7% After Disappointing Q4 Earnings

Alphabet's Q4 2024 earnings report revealed slightly weaker-than-expected revenues of $96.5 billion compared to forecasts of $96.7 billion, despite exceeding adjusted EPS forecasts ($2.15 vs $2.12), causing a 7% stock drop and approximately $180 billion market value loss, driven by Google Cloud's un...

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Spotify Reports First Annual Profit, Exceeding Q1 Earnings Estimates

Spotify announced its first annual profit and exceeded Q1 2024 earnings expectations (€548 million vs. €450.6 million estimated) due to increased ARPU from price hikes, cost-cutting, and record MAU growth (675 million total, 35 million net additions).

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DeepSeek's AI Model Triggers $600 Billion Nvidia Sell-off

DeepSeek's open-source AI model R1, released January 23rd, triggered a $600 billion Nvidia stock sell-off due to its superior cost-effectiveness and performance, surpassing ChatGPT in downloads and raising concerns about China's AI advancements and potential copyright infringement.

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Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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