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Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores
Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught inflating AI token consumption to hit internal usage targets.
Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill
Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months.
Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books
Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do.
Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000
Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.
Intel swipes Qualcomm veteran of 25 years to lead client computing
Intel appoints Alex Katouzian to lead client computing and physical AI efforts and confirms Pushkar Ranade as CTO, signaling a deeper shift toward AI-driven and edge computing systems
Microsoft attributes $25 billion of AI budget to memory and chip costs
Premium Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI infrastructure
Meta spent $72.2 billion on capex in all of 2025. The midpoint of its new 2026 guidance would nearly double that figure in a single year.
Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon capex spending to hit $725 billion in 2026, up 77% from last year
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year's record $410 billion.
