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Visa Click to Pay offers a seamless shopping experience that improves transaction speed, reduces fraud, and increases authorization rates.
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Documents reveal what tool Google used to try to beat ChatGPT: ChatGPT itself
Internal documents show Google used ChatGPT to improve Bard. Scale AI workers were ordered to "see why GPT4 is better."
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Leaked Microsoft org chart shows the team Jay Parikh assembled to lead CoreAI, full of fellow ex-Meta execs
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Ciroos is building AI teammates that fix tech issues faster. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $21 million.
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Leaked Microsoft document shows Walmart's past spending on Azure cloud services
A leaked document viewed by BI shows how much Walmart spent on Microsoft's Azure from June 2023 to May 2024.
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Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. Many top researchers have joined French AI startup Mistral.
Out of the 14 creators of Meta's AI model Llama, 11 have left the company. French AI startup Mistral has five of them.
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Microsoft put an ex-Facebook exec in charge of a new AI unit. Internal memos reveal how it's going.
Internal memos Jay Parikh has sent to employees since taking on a new AI unit reveal its early ambitions and accomplishments.
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Microsoft's big event was all about the 'explosion' of AI agents
It was all about AI agents at Microsoft's Build developer conference, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joining to talk about the future of AI coding.
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From online shopping to AI-driven innovation, payments are changing. Here's how merchants can keep up.
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Internal Microsoft memo reveals plans for a new 'Tenant Copilot' and an 'Agent Factory' concept
Jay Parikh, a former Facebook execute who joined Microsoft last year, has been working on these new AI initiatives.
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What's behind Microsoft's plans to flatten management layers by cutting thousands of employees
The software giant is eliminating about 6,000 jobs in a bid to increase the 'span of control' inside the company. Here's what that means.
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Microsoft has started its culling of managers and noncoders, with about 6,000 cuts planned
The cuts aim to reduce middle managers and increase coders versus noncoders, as BI earlier reported.
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Amazon's cloud business prepares for 'Buy Canada' questions and other Trump tariff fears
AWS seems less exposed to tariffs than its e-commerce operation. And yet, the cloud unit is advising sales staff on potential customer questions.
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Big Tech's new playbook: Trim the fat, pay the stars
Tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft prioritize performance, giving top performers better incentives, while scrutinizing underachievers.
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Amazon is working on a secret project called 'Kiro,' a new tool that uses AI agents to streamline software coding
Amazon's AI coding assistant 'Kiro' is designed to use AI agents and a multi-modal interface to streamline software development.
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Microsoft puts some ousted employees on a 2-year block list and counts them as 'good attrition,' internal document shows
Microsoft has adopted this management strategy as part of a broader effort to hold employees to higher performance standards.
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Amazon revamps pay structure to favor 'consistently high-performing' employees
Amazon revamps its compensation to reward its best employees, aligning with Big Tech trends of performance prioritization and cost control.
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Tenants are being charged eviction fees even if they don't get evicted
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'Juice this hog': How real estate companies supersized renter fees
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The FTC says company that pitched financial freedom scammed people out of $1 billion
The financial training platform said it could help subscribers make money. Some got soaked instead, the feds say.
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LlamaCon was supposed to be Meta's big AI party. All I saw was why its competitors are ahead.
Meta's LlamaCon 2025 showcased AI ambitions and gained Wall Street's praise, but developers found it lacking compared to competitors.
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Here are the top challenges for job seekers and hiring managers in Canada
A survey from Indeed highlights the need for smarter hiring.
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Microsoft CFO hypes up AI agents in an internal memo about Q3 earnings
CFO Amy Hood touted Microsoft's 50th anniversary and AI agents in an internal memo about the quarter.
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Google Cloud executive and former ads boss Jerry Dischler says he will depart the company
Jerry Dischler, who previously steered Google's ads business, said he plans to depart the company.
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Microsoft is trying to simplify how it sells Copilot AI offerings, internal slides reveal
The software giant offers many different tools and services with the Copilot name. Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff wants to simply this.
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The CEO of this software giant explains how he stayed off DOGE's chopping block
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott reveals how the company avoided the DOGE impact, with its US public sector business growing over 30% year-over-year.
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First, Microsoft tapped the AI data center brakes. Now analysts are worried about Amazon.
Some analysts think AWS is entering a "digestion phase" similar to Microsoft, pausing some data center deals amid signs of market moderation.
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The top companies you want on your résumé if you work in cybersecurity, according to recruiters
Business Insider spoke to six cybersecurity recruiting experts to hear which companies are considered the top names to have on your résumé.
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Fintech startup Ryft just raised $7.3 million to help marketplaces split payments. Here's its pitch deck.
The UK fintech startup says its platform helps banks and platforms split complex payments across multiple parties in real time.
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Stargate developer Crusoe could spend $3.5 billion on a Texas data center. Most of it will be tax-free.
The city of Abilene approved an 85% property tax abatement for data center developer Crusoe.
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Here's how the UK government is driving global projects while filling up the order books of UK companies
The UK's export credit agency is propelling major projects in developing economies, from solar energy in Türkiye to flood prevention in Angola, and unlocking opportunities for UK suppliers.
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Meta loses its AI research head, as billions in investments hang in the balance
Joelle Pineau will leave the company in May. Pineau's successor remains unclear.
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Meta loses two execs overseeing the company's largest markets and key advertising verticals
Two senior Meta executives, announce their departures this week, after over a decade, marking a significant leadership transition at the tech giant.
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How a focus on societal health can help drive national growth
Businesses are taking steps to empower communities and drive societal impact.
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Why Tesla is at a tipping point
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What Google bosses are telling staff about its big $32 billion Wiz deal
Top executives at Google highlight the $32 billion Wiz acquisition, the company's largest deal ever, amid a critical time for AI and cybersecurity.
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Microsoft is replacing its chief people officer as it rethinks performance reviews. Read CEO Satya Nadella's email.
The change has come after nearly 2,000 employees deemed low-performers were fired by Microsoft in January and February.
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Tech employees are getting the message: Playtime's over
The tables have turned for tech employees as performance pressure and proclamations of "efficiency" and "intensity" replace perks and pampering.
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Amazon employees are warning customers about DeepSeek privacy concerns — and pushing Amazon's own AI instead
DeepSeek's impact has rippled across Amazon product updates, sales pitches, and development efforts, according to internal documents and sources.
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Google shook up its Cloud sales strategy unit, internal memo reveals
An internal memo reveals Google Cloud's strategy overhaul, including team consolidation to increase sales productivity.
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The AI data center boom will create new jobs. Most won't be at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or Meta.
Data centers contributed 4.7 million jobs to the US economy between 2017 and 2023, a PwC study found. Most of them aren't direct tech jobs.
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Amazon VP who oversaw flagship AI product is leaving after a big shake-up
Amazon's AI shake-up sees VP Baskar Sridharan leave, as AWS consolidates Bedrock team and forms a new Agentic AI unit
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A top Amazon tech exec emailed its CEO: Don't buy the hype about Microsoft's 'breakthrough'
Amazon executives and employees have been frustrated by Microsoft's recent quantum claims, questioning the true significance of its new chip.
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Broadcom just proved Nvidia will be looking over its shoulder for a while longer
Broadcom's custom AI chips appeal to cloud companies as a cheaper option for high-volume AI work.
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Amazon is spending $100 billion on data centers this year. Energy firm GE Vernova will help power a slice of it.
The companies have signed a strategic agreement to help power Amazon's rapidly growing fleet of data centers.
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Amazon is working on a new 'reasoning' AI model that competes with OpenAI and Anthropic
The move will put the cloud-computing giant in closer competition with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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