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As Microsoft divides VP Rajesh Jha’s responsibilities, here’s who gets what

Microsoft is reorganizing its leadership following Rajesh Jha's retirement. Key divisions like Windows, Office, and Copilot are being reassigned to senior executives. This shake-up aims to align product groups with the company's AI and cloud focus. Several leaders will now report directly to CEO Satya Nadella as part of this significant internal shift.

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As Anthropic announces partnership with SpaceX, Elon Musk shares ‘background check’ of Claude team

Elon Musk's xAI has leased its Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic, a move that follows Musk's public shift from criticizing the AI lab to expressing confidence in its leadership. This deal provides Anthropic with significant GPU capacity, addressing its urgent compute needs and enabling immediate inference workloads. The partnership also hints at future collaborations for orbital AI compute infrastructure.

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Anthropic’s top exec reminds software engineering is dead, no manual coding at firm

Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says software engineering is already dead inside his own company—no one writes code by hand anymore, and Claude AI instances autonomously communicate over Slack to resolve problems across teams. As Google, Meta, Amazon and Snap race to set aggressive AI coding targets, Cherny believes IDE tools like VS Code and Xcode are next to disappear—and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "centaur phase" warning suggests the window for human coders is closing fast.

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Australia deports American YouTuber Sneako and slaps lifetime visa ban

Australia has deported American YouTuber Sneako. The government cancelled his visa and imposed a lifetime ban. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke stated the country is better without his divisive presence. This action follows legislative amendments allowing the government to protect the community from those spreading hatred. Sneako was ordered to leave immediately or face detention. The decision received cross-party support.

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US state to judge: Declare Meta a public nuisance

New Mexico is suing Meta, seeking $3.7 billion and platform changes, arguing its social media fuels a youth mental health crisis. The state accuses Meta of designing addictive platforms and failing to protect minors from exploitation. A judge is considering if Meta's platforms constitute a public nuisance, a designation that could force significant reforms.

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H-1B 'crisis': Are Indians taking over US? What numbers say

An American entrepreneur's X post downplaying H-1B visa holders' impact on US jobs has ignited a fierce online debate. He argued H-1B workers are a tiny fraction of the workforce, especially in STEM. Critics, however, countered that his analysis overlooks crucial factors like spouse visas and the true scale of H-1B employment, asserting real job losses for Americans.

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Don't listen to CEOs: Meta's most-famous ex-employee AI Yann to students

AI pioneer Yann LeCun urges students to disregard alarmist CEO pronouncements and fears of AI-driven job losses and extinction. He emphasizes that higher education, particularly in fields like physics and electrical engineering, will become more valuable as AI tools require human oversight and strategic direction, leading to job evolution rather than elimination.

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