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Oracle told staff on Monday that Monday was their last working day

Oracle began another fresh round of layoffs on Monday. Three affected employees and a copy of the notification email described the round to Business Insider, which reported that staff were told their role had been eliminated “as part of a broader organizational change” and that “today is your last working day”. Posts from people saying […]

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Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. Alignment will not come from behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier […]

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Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch just after 5pm Eastern on Saturday. Mullenweg holds both roles “with […]

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Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. […]

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Firmus is seeking $5bn in its Australian float after doubling its valuation to $10.5bn

Firmus is seeking up to $5bn in its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, according to Bloomberg, which would make it one of the largest floats the exchange has handled. The figure the company was working with in April was $2bn, at a valuation of $5.5bn. By August the valuation had passed $10.5bn. Investor meetings began […]

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Revolut handed customer passports to scammers using a real government email domain

Revolut gave sensitive customer information to criminals who requested it from what appeared to be a government email address, and did so because the address was real. The company has confirmed the breach and says its systems were never touched; the story was reported by TechCrunch on Friday. A Revolut spokesperson told TechCrunch the company […]

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Elon Musk’s quietest investor has built a $40B SpaceX stake

Vy Capital, a Dubai firm with a core investment team of four, holds about 3.4% of SpaceX worth roughly $40B, making it the fifth-largest shareholder and larger than Sequoia or Andreessen Horowitz. Europe’s sovereign alternative to Starlink costs EUR 15.6B and will not enter service until 2030. Vy Capital holds about 3.4% of SpaceX, worth […]

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Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pressure already discipline them. Europe reached the same conclusion about liability in February 2025, and from 9 December treats standalone software as a product under […]

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