Topic: leadership changes
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Apple's Top UI Designer Departs for Meta
Alan Dye, Apple's VP of Human Interface Design, is leaving to become Chief Design Officer at Meta, where he will oversee design for hardware, software, and AI integration. Apple has promoted veteran designer Steve Lemay to replace Dye, with CEO Tim Cook praising his long history of key contributi...
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Anthropic Appoints New CTO to Lead AI Infrastructure Push
Anthropic has appointed Rahul Patil, former Stripe CTO, as its new Chief Technology Officer, succeeding co-founder Sam McCandlish who becomes chief architect, as part of a reorganization to enhance collaboration among technical teams. The leadership change occurs amid intense infrastructure compe...
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Hyundai's Supernal Loses More Execs in Air Taxi Shake-Up
Hyundai's electric air taxi venture Supernal is undergoing a significant leadership transition, with key executives including the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Safety Officer departing as part of a strategic reassessment. The company is pausing its core air taxi development program and has fac...
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Microsoft's AI Mandate: Adapt or Exit
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is driving an urgent, company-wide transformation centered on AI, creating a pivotal moment where long-tenured employees must fully commit to the demanding new direction or consider leaving. The company is implementing significant organizational and operational changes...
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Apple's Chip Chief Johny Srouji Reportedly Weighs Exit
Johny Srouji, the senior vice president behind Apple Silicon, is seriously considering leaving Apple for a career move to another company. Apple is attempting to retain him with significant incentives, including a potential promotion to Chief Technology Officer, amid concerns about leadership sta...
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Apple's New Leadership Rises as Key Talent Departs
Apple is undergoing a significant leadership transition, with several long-tenured executives retiring and others being recruited by rivals, creating space for a new generation. John Ternus is the clear frontrunner to succeed Tim Cook as CEO, with his recent public visibility seen as a deliberate...
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Intel's Comeback: How It Regained Relevance and Is Winning Again
Intel has staged a market recovery, driven by new AI partnerships and a critical $16 billion investment package, which has boosted its share price and investor confidence. The company's recent struggles, including steep financial losses and a declining stock, stemmed from strategic missteps, such...
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Unity's AI Tools & Runtime Fee Recovery Plan
Unity faced a severe crisis of trust in 2023 after proposing a Runtime Fee, leading to backlash, a CEO change, and many developers switching to competing engines like Godot. Under new leadership, Unity is refocusing on its core mission by improving multi-platform deployment tools, runtime perform...
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Sequoia Breaks VC Taboo, Invests in Anthropic Rival: FT
Sequoia Capital is investing in Anthropic, a direct rival to its portfolio company OpenAI, marking a significant departure from traditional venture capital practices of avoiding portfolio conflicts. The funding round, led by GIC and Coatue, aims to raise up to $25 billion for Anthropic at a valua...
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WB Games Cuts Jobs at San Francisco Studio: Report
Warner Bros. Games has laid off staff at its San Francisco studio, dissolving teams and eliminating senior positions, as part of ongoing company restructuring. The division has faced a turbulent year, including leadership changes, studio closures, and a strategic pivot to focus on major franchise...
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Cowboy Brand Acquired by New Owner
Cowboy, a Belgian e-bike manufacturer, has been acquired by ReBirth Group Holding, securing its future with new funding to restart production and address a significant order and spare parts backlog. The company faced severe financial strain in 2025, including a damaging frame recall that nearly l...
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OpenAI Appoints Slack CEO as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAI has hired former Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer, signaling a major strategic push to expand its enterprise business and embed AI tools into mainstream operations. Dresser's appointment is intended to leverage her deep enterprise sales expertise to drive large-sca...
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Rad Power Bikes Could Shut Down in January Without Funding
Rad Power Bikes may permanently shut down in January if it fails to secure new funding or a buyer, as revealed in an internal email to employees. The company is struggling with a sharp decline in consumer demand, excess inventory, and financial pressures from tariffs and a tough macroeconomic env...
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Tiger Global Raises $2.2B for Cautious New Venture Fund
Tiger Global is raising a new $2.2 billion venture fund, marking a strategic shift toward a more cautious and selective investment philosophy compared to its previous aggressive, high-velocity approach. The firm's new fund will continue to target AI opportunities but emphasizes discipline, acknow...
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Apple Appoints New AI Chief with Google, Microsoft Experience
Apple has appointed Amar Subramanya, a former Microsoft and Google AI leader, as its new head of AI to accelerate development after a period of product delays and public missteps. The company faced significant internal dysfunction and public embarrassment, including a rocky launch of Apple Intell...
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Apple's Switch to Google Gemini Boosts Siri's Success Odds: Analyst
Apple's strategic partnership with Google's Gemini AI is seen as a major boost for Siri's future, increasing the likelihood of a successful next-generation Apple Intelligence assistant. The deal has drawn criticism from figures like Elon Musk over concerns of consolidating too much power with Goo...
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The Fall of DOGE: A New Era of Crypto Chaos
Elon Musk's withdrawal from leadership and the resulting power vacuum led to the DOGE agency's dissolution eight months ahead of schedule. Musk's confrontational management style, including budget cuts and staff dismissals, alienated government employees and political allies, culminating in repor...
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GitHub Migrates to Microsoft Azure Cloud
GitHub is migrating its entire platform to Microsoft Azure over the next two years to address data center capacity constraints and scale for AI services like Copilot, marking a deeper integration with Microsoft. The migration is prioritized over new feature development, with teams delaying releas...
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Tinder Tests Redesign, Dating Modes & Campus Features for More Engagement
Tinder is introducing new features like "modes" and a Hinge-inspired "like" system, along with a redesign and campus-focused tools, to boost engagement and attract Gen Z users after a decline in premium subscribers. Match Group reported flat Q2 revenue but a stronger Q3 forecast, with plans to in...
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Yann LeCun to Leave Meta for AI Startup
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is leaving the company to start his own AI startup focused on developing "world models" that understand the physical environment through video and spatial data. World models aim to simulate cause-and-effect relationships and grasp fundamental physics, repres...
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Microsoft Revamps Copilot Pricing for Businesses
Microsoft is restructuring Copilot's pricing by bundling specialized tools into the core Microsoft 365 subscription, reducing the cost from $50 to $30 per user monthly to boost business adoption. The company is consolidating its AI divisions and focusing on developing Agent 365, a platform for ma...
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Researchers Flee Meta's New AI Super Lab
Meta's AI Superintelligence Lab is experiencing high-profile departures, with at least three researchers leaving shortly after joining, including returns to OpenAI. The lab faces internal instability due to frequent reorganizations and bureaucratic hurdles, despite offering competitive compensati...
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Meta's New AI Model for Images and Video Set for 2026
Meta is developing two major AI models, "Mango" for image/video and "Avocado" for text, targeting a significant release in early 2026 through its Superintelligence Lab. The company aims for these models to achieve advanced capabilities, like coding for Avocado and creating "world models" for visu...
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How BlackBerry Messenger Revolutionized Texting
Two decades ago, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) disrupted the costly SMS market by offering a free messaging service, saving users money and bypassing wireless carriers. BBM was ahead of its time as an "everything app," integrating features like music sharing, money transfers, and social updates long...
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EV Owners Face New Hurdle as Waymo's Robotaxi Fleet Tops 2,000
The electric vehicle market is facing challenges due to the transition to Tesla's charging standard and the expiration of federal tax incentives, which may reduce consumer confidence and sales. EV owners are dealing with increasing complexity from needing multiple charging adapters for different ...
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Stability AI Launches Smartphone-Friendly Audio Generator
Stability AI launched Stable Audio Open Small, a mobile-friendly AI audio tool that operates directly on smartphones without cloud processing, making it the fastest of its kind. The tool uses ethically sourced, royalty-free training data and is optimized for Arm processors, but has limita...
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Trump Media Merges With Fusion Power Firm in $6B+ Deal
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is merging with TAE Technologies in a multi-billion dollar deal to enter the commercial fusion energy sector, citing rising global electricity demand. The merger combines TMTG's digital media assets and financial resources with TAE's decades of fusion resea...
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Intel Scraps Next-Gen Mainstream Xeon Server CPUs
Intel has canceled its next-generation 8-channel "Diamond Rapids" Xeon CPUs, consolidating its server roadmap to focus exclusively on higher-end 16-channel memory platforms for future data center offerings. The industry is shifting toward 16-channel memory systems to meet the demands of AI worklo...
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Meta Shifts Focus, Downsizes AI Research Team
Meta is cutting about 600 jobs in its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) unit and shifting focus to its new superintelligence team, TBD Lab, to prioritize advanced AI initiatives. The layoffs follow a period of aggressive hiring and a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, with the company now restruc...
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Faraday Future Under SEC Scrutiny After 3-Year Investigation
Faraday Future faces potential SEC enforcement actions over alleged misleading statements during its 2021 SPAC merger, with founder Jia Yueting and president Jerry Wang receiving formal notices. The SEC found possible violations of federal securities laws, including inaccurate disclosures and und...
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Meta Reportedly Cutting 10% of Reality Labs Workforce
Meta is laying off approximately 10% of its Reality Labs workforce, impacting over a thousand employees and signaling a strategic shift away from some VR and metaverse initiatives. The restructuring includes closing several VR development studios while specifically protecting teams working on aug...
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Xbox 360 Era Begins: A New Age of Gaming
In 2018, Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass became highly popular by offering all first-party games on the service at launch, earning it the title of "the best deal in gaming." Recent price hikes have raised the premier tier to $29.99 per month, sparking backlash and potential cancellations, with many at...
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Nova Launcher Founder and Sole Developer Departs
Nova Launcher's future is uncertain after its founder and sole developer, Kevin Barry, left parent company Branch Metrics and was instructed to stop development and open-sourcing efforts. Branch Metrics, which acquired Nova in 2022, had previously promised to open-source the app if Barry departed...
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2025 Tech Layoffs: The Complete List
The technology sector has seen over 22,000 job cuts in 2025, driven by companies prioritizing AI integration and operational efficiency, with February alone accounting for more than 16,000 layoffs. Major tech firms like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon conducted significant workforce reductions, oft...
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