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Microsoft veteran executive Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after the next fiscal year, an internal memo shows
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BCG trained an AI agent on the worst things salespeople do
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An internal memo shows LinkedIn's new marketing playbook: fewer staff, tighter budgets, and more AI
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Data centers have a bigger NIMBY problem than nuclear reactors, a new poll shows
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Internal Microsoft document spells out the company's buyout offer
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Local data center opposition claims its latest victim: Oracle's Project Jupiter gas plant
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Two-thirds of top SaaS companies won't survive the AI age, an analyst says. Here's how to tell who will win and lose.
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Palantir says AI tokens are the new coal as its revenue surges
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A new dashboard tracks how much KPMG workers use AI. They say it's easy to game the system.
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Twilio's stock is soaring. Its CEO explains how AI helped turn things around.
Twilio's stock surged Thursday as the company's AI strategy pays off. Previously, activist investors demanded cost cuts amid growth challenges.
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Employees react to looming Meta layoffs
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A $16 billion OpenAI and Oracle data center could decide whether Michigan power bills go up or stay put
Oracle and OpenAI's Michigan data center could generate $300 million annually in savings, DTE Energy says, impacting electricity rates.
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One chart reveals how Big Tech is spending up to $725 billion in an AI arms race
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are ramping up AI spending to record levels this year.
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AI is igniting a love affair between Silicon Valley and the consulting industry
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Meta employees react to pending job cuts: '28 days of hell'
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Big Tech's AI data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits — and one state is feeling it the most
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to thousands of longtime US employees
Microsoft is offering buyouts to employees whose years of service and age adds up to 70 or more.
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A new fault line has emerged inside Google: The Claude haves and have-nots
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California Treasurer Fiona Ma tied to Chinese school cited in scathing audit
California Treasurer Fiona Ma told students in China that she could help get them internships and jobs in California, according to a school's website.
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A talent CEO says data centers are a 'massive opportunity' for office workers to pivot mid-career
Broadstaff CEO Carrie Charles urges tech workers to pursue data center jobs, as demand rises with AI expansion.
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3 top executives leave OpenAI in a single day
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Deloitte is cutting back on benefits for some US workers
Deloitte US will cut benefits for some workers, according to internal documents seen by Business Insider.
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Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor
Elon Musk's xAI is collaborating with Cursor, which is using xAI's GPUs for model training, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Maine is poised to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.
Maine's AI data center moratorium bill could halt construction until 2027. 11 other states tried to address concerns over AI infrastructure growth.
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EY's talent chief says AI is changing the entire employee lifecycle, from talent development to promotions
EY Americas' talent chief said the Big Four firm is testing "more flexible, individualized career paths, including agile promotions."
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California condemns 'unlawful' claims by Chinese school at center of Business Insider report
Pegasus, a boarding school in China, says it was founded with the 'blessing and support' of the state.
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IRS seeks $7.3 million from Floyd Mayweather
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Here's where ICE is spending big on warehouses to turn into detention centers
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Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees
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Oracle is cutting staff as the company seeks to curb cost while it invest in AI infrastructure.
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China's 'one-person companies' have exploded. An Alibaba exec explains how AI agents make that possible.
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Wayfound.ai, led by CEO Tatyana Mamut, uses AI agents to transform software development, challenging the traditional SaaS model.
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Meta and OpenAI's compute crunch gives Arm a big opportunity
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Salesforce's highest-level employees aren't getting raises this year. Here's what some will receive instead.
Salesforce is skipping raises for directors and above this year, instead boosting stock and bonus pools to reward top performers in those levels.
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Microsoft makes sweeping overhaul of HR organization, internal memo shows
Microsoft's Chief Diversity Officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is leaving the company on March 31.
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Feds opened probe of California school district's diplomas for Chinese students, according to lawsuit
Business Insider's reporting on the Val Verde school district landed on the U.S. attorney's desk.
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Snowflake makes cuts as part of 'targeted adjustments' to the company's strategy
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Audit sparked by Business Insider story slams California ties to Chinese boarding school
A US public school district bestowed its diplomas on private school students 6,000 miles away in Qingdao, China.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang can't stop talking about tokens. Here's what they are and how they're reshaping AI budgets.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the importance of AI tokens at the GTC conference, framing them as essential for AI pricing and corporate budgets.
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Nvidia is getting in on the OpenClaw craze with its own spin on the AI agent: NemoClaw
Jensen Huang said OpenClaw could do for AI agents what Windows did for computing, and Nvidia's NemoClaw will help enterprises use OpenClaw safely.
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Microsoft shakes up Copilot, focusing Mustafa Suleyman on 'Superintelligence.' Read the memos
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Nvidia expects to sell $1 trillion in AI chips through 2027 — and it's pushing further into inference
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils a high-speed AI inference system using Groq technology, targeting growing demand.
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