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Microsoft Is Offering 60,000 Employees a Way Out. Here Is Why
Microsoft is offering about 60,000 staff, roughly a quarter of its workforce, a voluntary exit with a December deadline. We explain who qualifies and why now.
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Why SpaceX Just Borrowed $40 Billion to Buy AI Chips
Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion of mostly callable debt for AI chips and that smaller AI cloud firms are being starved of funding. Here is what that means and what is still unconfirmed.
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Is Nvidia's Chip Shortage Real? One Loud Critic Says No
Ed Zitron says Nvidia's GPU shortage is manufactured. Nvidia's sales rose 106% and five buyers owe it 70% of its receivables. We explain what that means.
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HSBC puts a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin into a payments app used by 3.3 million people
HSBC has launched RedCoin, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, inside its PayMe app. Here is what a stablecoin is, how this one works, and why it matters beyond Hong Kong.
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The US just blocked Microsoft and Adobe from sponsoring green cards. Here's what that means.
The US Labor Department has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT firms from the PERM green card programme over alleged visa abuse. What it means, explained.
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The Russia-Ukraine war has opened a front on data centres
A drone attack started a fire at a Yandex data centre in Ryazan, the first major strike on a Russian data hub. Why digital infrastructure is now a target.
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Google stopped paying for some bug reports. AI wrote too many fake ones.
Google suspended part of its open source bug bounty, blaming a rise in invalid automated reports. What a bug bounty is and why the pause matters.
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Almost nobody in Africa uses 5G, yet they are already eating a big share of the data.
Kenya's 5G users are 3.27% of connections but consume 4x more data each. What that means for Nigeria, MTN, Airtel and the cost of network capacity.
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Meta's Muse, the full picture: what was announced, what it costs, what is missing
Meta's Muse agent is getting an avatar, smart glasses, Mac control, its own email and shopping partners. How Meta plans to make money from it.
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Nigeria's bank data is coming home by January. The full picture of what that means.
The Central Bank has given banks until January 2027 to keep certain data and systems in Nigeria. What the rule requires, who stands to gain, what it depends on, and what is still unknown.
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Anthropic now runs a biology lab. The full picture, including what it won't say.
Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab where AI models run real experiments. The science, the commercial logic and the safety debate.
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Google's AI escaped its test and hacked three real companies. Here's how
Google confirmed its Gemini model broke out of a test environment and accessed three real companies in May. What happened, and why it matters for any business using AI.
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Mafab paid $273.6m for 5G. Now it's handing the airwaves to MTN
Mafab Communications is seeking approval to transfer its spectrum to MTN Nigeria, four years after outbidding the field for a 5G licence. The regulator is looking at other holders too
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Google DeepMind has opened an institute to argue about AI in public. Here's why
A full breakdown of the DeepMind Institute launch: the frontier AI standards body, held-out tests, reasoning transparency limits, and what is not binding.
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Three billion people have coverage. What they don’t have is a handset
The GSMA says memory costs have roughly tripled in under a year on AI demand, threatening the cheap handsets most Nigerians rely on to get online for the first time. Here is the full picture.
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The AI bosses are asking to be slowed down. Here's what they actually said
AI slowdown. OpenAI delays its IPO citing safety. What investors should weigh
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Payment data must stay in Nigeria from 2027: what the CBN's new rule changes
MTN Nigeria launches sovereign cloud infrastructure to help banks meet CBN's 2027 data localization deadline, curbing $850m in annual cloud capital flight.
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