Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China
Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing the…

Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for

Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engine…

Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture
Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely t…

Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them
Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watch…

Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace
Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace

Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers. The stock dropped as much as 21% in after-hours trading on…

Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff
Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff

SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX wi…

YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program
YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program

From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty m…

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Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness
Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness

Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness while working 38 hours a week. “This notion that somehow you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours …

Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-b…