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July 7, 2026, 4:15 AM
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft's Xbox plans to cut ~3,200 jobs over the next year, including 1,600 on Monday, and divest up to five studios, including Ninja Theory, in a “reset”  —  Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most are in sales or Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY 2027  —  Most of the job losses are in Microsoft's Xbox and commercial sales organizations. … A year after cutting around 9,100 employees …
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has ~30M subscriptions; an internal document shows Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach ~77M in 2026  —  The videogame unit's revenue has fallen and its Netflix-like subscription service is far below expectations
Reuters:
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, a 19-fold jump from Q2 2025 and above ~$57.02B est., and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B; its stock drops 5%+  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier …
Anthropic:
Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output  —  As you read this sentence, circuits in your brain are adjusting your posture, controlling your breathing, and transforming lines and curves on the screen into recognizable words.
Sam Witteveen / VentureBeat:
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April  —  For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users …
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a “malicious governance proposal” that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens  —  Quick Take  — BonkDAO was hit with a governance attack that appears to have drained approximately $20 million worth of BONK tokens …
Reuters:
Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24%  —  Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices …
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor  —  Steve Hilton, the conservative British political operator running for governor of California, launched his longshot campaign in April 2025 …

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky agrees to acquire ITV's TV business for £1.6B, uniting the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters; ITV says shareholders will receive £950M from the deal

Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

More News

Adam Harrington / CBS News:
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo plans to stop selling the original Switch, Lite, and OLED in Europe from mid-February 2027 and update the Switch 2 to comply with new EU battery rules

Earlier Picks

James Hunt / The Block:
Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K “spammy posts and comments” per day in Q1, reducing users' exposure to such content by 20% YoY
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announced a multibillion-dollar 5G deal
CNBC:
Anthropic signs a 20-year, ~$19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity and to start delivering power in H2 2027
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