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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees Amid AI Spending 

Microsoft has made roughly 60,000 employees eligible for a voluntary buyout, one of the largest such programs in its history.

October 28, 2026
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October 28, 2026

Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees Amid AI Spending 

Microsoft has made roughly 60,000 employees eligible for a voluntary buyout, one of the largest such programs in its history.

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October 27, 2026

Anthropic’s IPO: The $800 Billion Compute Cost Challenge 

Anthropic’s recent IPO filing contains a striking sentence about a day that has not yet arrived: “our run rate revenue

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October 26, 2026

The PHP 2 Shell Exploit Was Almost Impossible—Until It Wasn’t

A developer placed roughly $2,000 in Bitcoin on a PHP server still vulnerable to the PHP 2 shell holes and

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October 23, 2026

Unauthorized AI Agents in Banks: Who Is Responsible? 

A viral Axios report revealed that major US banks are finding AI agents inside customer accounts. The post, shared by

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October 22, 2026

PHP Vulnerability 2026: Why Patching Is Only Half the Battle

Yesterday was the leak and the patch. Today is the cleanup. And the cleanup is where most companies get hurt,

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October 22, 2026

Why DeepSeek’s Open-Source AI Strategy Could Win the Long Game

DeepSeek follows a much simpler strategy than the American labs. The company builds models, open sources the models and the

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October 20, 2026

Why You Should Keep Your AI Local

Technology is moving quickly. Models are releasing almost daily, after previously arriving weekly and then monthly. The speed is increasing,

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October 19, 2026

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? Demand, Financing Walls, and Open Weight Models

The debate over whether AI is in a bubble has become one of the most active discussions online. A short

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October 16, 2026

SpaceX Grokbot Growth: Pricing, User Numbers, and Real Business Value 

Elon posted three sentences about Grokbot, his company’s AI agent, and social media reacted strongly. He stated that he had