{"id":854169,"date":"2025-06-08T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/behind-the-tech-layoffs-nvidia-ceos-fear-microsoft-stocks-new-high-tech-news-roundup\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:12:27","slug":"behind-the-tech-layoffs-nvidia-ceos-fear-microsoft-stocks-new-high-tech-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/behind-the-tech-layoffs-nvidia-ceos-fear-microsoft-stocks-new-high-tech-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the tech layoffs, Nvidia CEO’s fear, Microsoft stock’s new high: Tech news roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past two years, it\u2019s been a ghost in the machine of American tech.<\/p>\n

Between 2022 and today, a little-noticed tweak to the U.S. tax code has quietly rewired the financial logic of how American companies invest in research and development. Outside of CFO and accounting circles<\/a><\/span>, almost no one knew it existed. \u201cI work on these tax write-offs and still hadn\u2019t heard about this,\u201d a chief operating officer at a private-equity-backed tech company told Quartz. \u201cIt\u2019s just been so weirdly silent.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Apple\u2019s (AAPL<\/a><\/span>) first-generation iPhone entered the U.S. market in June 2007, joining other mobile devices that offered limited web browsing, email, and multimedia capabilities. As Apple\u2019s flagship smartphone, the iPhone has seen an evolution in design, functionality, and performance, shaping the way people interact with technology. <\/p>\n

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Meta (META<\/a><\/span>) believes that the source of 97% of its revenue can be fully automated by AI: its ads.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2026, Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s company will employ AI to work with brands to create their own advertising \u2014 imagery, video and text \u2014 and then target them to specific users on Meta platforms, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/span>. The ads could even be made specific to geolocation and time, reflecting local scenery or weather conditions in the imagery. <\/p>\n

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Microsoft (MSFT<\/a><\/span>) stock just clocked an intraday record on Thursday ($468.49), a milestone that caps off the company\u2019s aggressive AI moves \u2014 and even more aggressive expectations. Wall Street isn\u2019t just rewarding Microsoft for showing up to the AI race, it\u2019s pricing in a future where the company leads the pack. <\/p>\n

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A brain-computer interface (BCI), a fusion of man and machine, has sparked human imagination since the Industrial Revolution. This week, the small field of BCI developers \u2014 which includes Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink \u2014 was joined by Texan company Paradromics, who successfully installed<\/a><\/span> its Connexus BCI in a patient undergoing epilepsy resection surgery at the University of Michigan. <\/p>\n

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Even Donald Trump\u2019s sons are finding their family\u2019s crypto business a bit cryptic.<\/p>\n

Both Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. denied any involvement in a Trump-branded crypto wallet<\/a><\/span>\u00a0launched<\/a><\/span> this week by Magic Eden<\/a><\/span>, an NFT marketplace that teamed up with GetTrumpMemes.com, the company behind the $TRUMP memecoin. GetTrumpMemes.com is owned by Fight Fight Fight LLC, a subdivision of CIC Digital that sells<\/a><\/span> Trump-branded cologne and gold sneakers; both own<\/a><\/span> 80% of the $TRUMP token supply. <\/p>\n

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As ChatGPT approaches its third anniversary this fall, OpenAI announced that the chatbot has spurred a 50% increase in paid users since February. <\/p>\n

COO Brad Lightcap told<\/a><\/span> CNBC (CMCSA<\/a><\/span>) that the company now boasts three million users shelling out cash for its Enterprise, Team, and Edu platforms.<\/p>\n

Once the revolutionary chatbot captured the public\u2019s imagination in late 2022, OpenAI began rolling out versions specific to sectors like finance, health care, and post-secondary education. <\/p>\n

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Reddit is taking Anthropic to court, alleging that the AI startup helped itself to the platform\u2019s vast library of user-generated content \u2014 after saying it wouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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