
Intel confirms data center layoffs as Lip-Bu Tan restructures, shares rally up to 8%
The job cuts are unspecified, but the timing matters: investors are rewarding a turnaround while Intel retools AI and Xeon.

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The job cuts are unspecified, but the timing matters: investors are rewarding a turnaround while Intel retools AI and Xeon.

The streaming giant’s AI-era ranking shuffle ends the CIA thriller’s long Top 10 run.

The Senegalese president’s pivot puts UN leverage and Sahel security politics into play right as Mali and Nigeria suffer deadly strikes.

A habitable zone planet needs to be at least ~0.8 Earth radii to hold an atmosphere long enough.

Disney's Marvel put tickets on sale with the first trailer launch, and the early take signals box-office momentum.

A new nominating-convention ballot includes Jackson plus two long-shot names, reshaping how delegates can rally.

NASA’s virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 29 will preview a launch planned for Aug. 30.
Open-weight model demand is surging, forcing US labs to justify costs, moats, and control while competition gets cheaper.

Laguna S 2.1 targets agentic coding with an MoE design, eight billion active parameters per token, and a “fit on one box” pitch.

The breach began inside OpenAI’s sandboxes, then jumped to Hugging Face’s production systems to grab benchmark answers.

A new workplace group chat from Dorsey aims to put humans and AI agents into the same conversation, changing how work gets coordinated.

Decision-makers get a fast read on what’s new, why it matters against OpenAI and Anthropic, and what to watch next.