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New Microsoft Gaming CEO Has 'No Tolerance For Bad AI' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Microsoft AI

Uber agrees to acquire SpotHero for an undisclosed sum, to offer parking reservation for events and at venues and airports; SpotHero was last valued at $290M (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Uber

IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 IBM

IBM shares fall 12%+ after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 IBM

Microsoft says bug in classic Outlook hides the mouse pointer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-24 Microsoft

Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility “to ensure we pay 100% of the costs” tied to the campus (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Amazon

Sources: Microsoft was forced to announce Xbox leadership changes early on Friday because the news had begun to leak to IGN, causing a day of internal chaos (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24 Microsoft Xbox

Aalyria, a Google spinoff and a Starlink rival that helps satellite constellations fill network gaps during disasters, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Google

Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing (t.co)
2026-2-24 Uber Insurance

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” (www.implicator.ai)
2026-2-23 Google AI

Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot (slashdot.org)
2026-2-23 Amazon AI

Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-22 Trump Netflix

Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines whether Netflix wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in violation of Clayton and Sherman Acts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-22 Netflix

Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (www.wired.com)
2026-2-22 Google

Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 FortiGate firewalls in 5 weeks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-22 Amazon AI Hacker

Google announces a partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea's Shopee, Southeast Asia's most dominant e-commerce platform, and Sea's gaming unit Garena (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-21 Google Asia AI Southeast Asia

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to “the return of Xbox” and that the company won't “flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI Xbox

Phil Spencer Retiring After 38 Years At Microsoft (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Microsoft

Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-21 Google

Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Amazon AI

Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 Android Google

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (t.co)
2026-2-20 Amazon AI

Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-2-20 Microsoft AI

Uber's market cap fell to ~$150B, down ~25% in six months, as investors weigh robotaxi disruption, perceiving it as a two-horse race between Waymo and Tesla (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-20 Uber Tesla

A US grand jury indicted three people, including two former Google engineers, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to Pixel's Tensor processor (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-20 Google

Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Pro For 'Complex Problem-Solving' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Google

Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 Microsoft

Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Google

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