Xbox CEO Joins Fed AI Jobs Task Force Days After Announcing 3,200 Layoffs
Asha Sharma will advise the Federal Reserve on AI’s impact on jobs and productivity as Xbox undergoes the biggest restructuring in its history.
Asha Sharma will advise the Federal Reserve on AI’s impact on jobs and productivity as Xbox undergoes the biggest restructuring in its history.
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. | Image: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix – one of the world’s biggest suppliers of memory chips – launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba’s record as … Read more
State representative Keith Ammon said the New Hampshire executive council’s vote against Bitcoin-backed bonds was “short-sighted,” urging the body to reconsider the measure.
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
HyperTexting’s new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar – one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more. Listeners can choose from up to five options like … Read more
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
The launch comes as tokenized stocks become one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto, with exchanges and traditional finance firms racing to expand 24/7 trading.
Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a company that used to seem like the next big thing in TV, it all feels a little frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a company that sees sleep as its primary competitor, it might … Read more
The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.
Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limitations of an early 2000s relic.
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 10, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Acquires GeCAD’s Antivirus Technology in 2003, Apple Introduced macOSX 10.9 Code-Named Mavericks in 2013, Apple Released Apple II Series of Computers in 1977, and we present you … Read more
Despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign Congress’ bipartisan housing bill, it’s set to go into effect at midnight, and its temporary CBDC ban along with it.
The inside man is already in your building. Last week, a service provider emailed me offering to help find Forward Deployment Engineers. I almost forwarded it to my head of talent. Then I looked up what the role actually was. Every major technology wave creates a new job title. Cloud computing gave us cloud architects. … Read more
Stablecoins are carving out specialized roles as regulation reshapes the market, while Strategy’s Bitcoin sale and Vanguard’s tokenization push highlight crypto’s evolving financial landscape.
Model customization transforms general-purpose AI models into specialized enterprise assets. By fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) on domain-specific data, businesses teach AI their unique workflows, terminology, and deep domain specialization, along with strict adherence to brand voice and fewer hallucinations. For enterprises, this is more than an optimization. It’s the creation of proprietary intellectual property. A … Read more
Disney Plus is considering making some of its content free to watch, according to a report from Business Insider. A source tells the outlet that Adam Smith, Disney’s chief product and technology officer, mentioned a free streaming tier during the company’s town hall on Thursday. It’s not clear which shows or movies the purported free … Read more
In dentistry, image quality determines whether a claim is paid or denied. Up to 20 percent insurance claims are initially denied, with missing or low-quality images among the leading causes. Yet quality assessment has traditionally been a manual, after-the-fact process. A clinician reviews an X-ray hours or days after capture, discovering problems only when a … Read more
In this post we show how to build a semantic layer on AWS using Stardog’s Semantic AI Application over Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift, and how to run a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that queries the layer to answer customer 360 questions across both sources without extract, transform, and load (ETL). The … Read more
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An artificial intelligence (AI) agent can process an invoice, help adjudicate a claim, or classify a support ticket in a proof of concept. But running these agents across thousands or even millions of work items in a production environment introduces an entirely different set of challenges. At enterprise scale, success depends on much more than … Read more
The initiative builds on a broader shift by companies exploring stablecoins to move money between international operations more efficiently.
This post was co-written with Daniel Han and Michael Han from Unsloth. Deploying large foundation models (FMs) stored at their original 16-bit floating-point precision (BF16 or FP16) is expensive. They need large GPU instances, driving up serving costs, and slowing down iteration cycles. Quantization addresses this by reducing the numerical precision of a model’s weights … Read more
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