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ARCHIVE FRIDAY, MAY 8 · 8 STORIES
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AI Tech & Business Infrastructure

Cloudflare to Cut 1,100 Jobs, Citing AI-Driven Productivity Gains

Cloudflare is laying off approximately 20 percent of its workforce, or about 1,100 people, in what co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince called the comp...

AI

OpenAI releases three new voice models targeting real-time agent applications

OpenAI released three new voice models through its API, bundling speech recognition, translation, and reasoning into single audio-to-audio interfaces rather tha...

Tech & Business

Porsche Shuts Three Subsidiaries, Cutting More Than 500 Jobs

Porsche is closing three subsidiaries in a restructuring that will eliminate more than 500 jobs, the German automaker announced Friday. The move is part of a br...

Tech & Business Policy

U.S. Regulator Opens Probe Into Avride Self-Driving Crashes

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company partnered with Uber, after identifying 16 crashes...

Tech & Business

Sony forecasts profit rise and $3.2bn buyback despite sharp drop in PS5 sales

Sony Group on Friday issued guidance for the fiscal year ending March 2027, forecasting operating profit of 1.6 trillion yen, an 11 percent increase, and a shar...

Tech & Business

Nintendo raises Switch 2 price to $500, forecasts lower sales amid memory costs and tariffs

Nintendo is raising the United States price of its Switch 2 console by $50 to $500, citing higher memory component costs and U.S. tariffs. The increase is small...

Policy Tech & Business

French Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Elon Musk and X

French prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X on Thursday, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal c...

Startups Tech & Business

SoftBank trims OpenAI margin loan to $6 billion after lenders push back on valuation

SoftBank Group has cut the size of a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake to as little as $6 billion, down from an initial $10 billion target, after creditors...