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The firm will help affected staff find new roles within the company Amazon is cutting roles in Singapore as it shifts resources toward expanding its international store selection in the market. In a post on its website, the firm said that a “small number” of roles will be impacted, and Amazon will help affected staff find new roles within the company. Those unable to secure an internal transfer will receive transition support, including severance payments and career services. “Amazon remains deeply committed to Singapore and our investments across our retail, Global Selling, entertainment, devices, and AWS business lines, employing 2,500…
DeepSeek’s possible $45 billion valuation signals China’s AI race is no longer about survival- it’s now about scale and, most crucially, dominance. For a while, Silicon Valley treated China’s AI ambitions like an imitation game. Fast followers. Cheap replicas. Strong domestically, but still trailing the American frontier. DeepSeek’s explosive rise is beginning to destroy that narrative. The Chinese AI startup is reportedly nearing a valuation between $45 billion and $50 billion as it enters its first major fundraising round, with China’s powerful state-backed semiconductor fund expected to lead the investment. That number matters. Not just because it is enormous, but…
Workers install equipment in the data center housing the new Ai2 computing cluster funded by Nvidia and NSF. (Ai2 Photo) The Allen Institute for AI says it has brought online and started using a powerful new computing system funded by Nvidia and the National Science Foundation, the first big milestone in a $152 million project to build open AI models for scientific research. Ai2, as the Seattle-based institute is known, was awarded the funding last August as part of the White House AI Action Plan. The project, called Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure for Science, or OMAI, aims to build AI…
The $599 MacBook Neo has been flying off the shelves and online stores so fast that Apple has been forced to double its production target. Even now, when I’m writing this article, the shipping time on the official website is two to three weeks. Semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan of Culpium claims that Apple has asked its manufacturing partners, Quanta and Foxconn, to increase the production capacity to 10 million units, nearly double the initial estimate. However, increasing production could cause a price problem for buyers very soon. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends How does increasing production cause a price problem?…
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions.Bans on kids and teens using social media have swept the country and the world in the past few years, with lawmakers from Australia to Massachusetts enacting or considering legislation to keep young people off platforms like TikTok.Now the Canadian province of Manitoba is planning to go one step further: banning kids from using AI chatbots.Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced the proposed ban at an April fundraiser, arguing that tech platforms are “doing these very awful things to kids all in the…
Ravie LakshmananMay 07, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1. It allows “a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code execution,” Ivanti said in an advisory released today. “We are aware of a very limited number of customers exploited with CVE-2026-6973. Successful exploitation requires Admin authentication. If customers followed Ivanti’s recommendation in January to rotate credentials…
OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft, its longtime investor and cloud partner, has grown increasingly complicated over the years as the ChatGPT-maker has grown into a behemoth competitor.But Microsoft executives had reservations about sending additional funding to OpenAI as far back as 2018 when it was just a small nonprofit research lab, according to emails between more than a dozen Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, shown in a federal court on Thursday during the Musk v. Altman trial.The emails show how Microsoft, at the time, wavered over what has since been held up as one of the most successful corporate partnerships…
Most security teams have more data than they know what to do with. Alerts, dashboards, telemetry feeds—all of it pointing at things that need attention. The problem isn’t that they can’t see the risks. It’s that seeing them and actually fixing them are two completely different things. Known vulnerabilities sit unresolved for months. Orphaned accounts linger in identity systems. Cloud resources get spun up and forgotten. Certificates expire on assets nobody remembers owning. Security teams largely know about all of it. They just can’t move fast enough to do much about it. I had a chance to talk with Yair…
Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update from CEO Dan Clancy. “Today, we’re introducing a new enforcement type that we plan to roll out over the next few weeks,” Clancy shared in a post on X. “For channels identified as persistently viewbotting, we will apply a cap to the streamer’s CCV [concurrent views] for a fixed period of time, on all of the Twitch surfaces.”…
At this year’s IBM Think, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna’s keynote focused on artificial intelligence’s impact on the modern enterprise. Instead of the usual tour through features and roadmaps, his talk challenged information technology leaders. The real divide in the next decade won’t be between those who do and don’t use AI, but between those who rebuild their operating models around AI and those who stay stuck in pilots and proofs of concept. Viewed through the lens of the old wedding rhyme — something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue — Krishna’s themes on AI, first operations, hybrid cloud, quantum and sovereignty…