Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it

Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, and it is cutting them mostly from the teams that build its technology. The money it saves is going into the payment methods that could one d [...]

Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts

Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported by Reuter [...]

Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, [...]

AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, peop [...]

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act [...]

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky

NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the A [...]

Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead

Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pa [...]

UK regulator probes whether Microsoft misled 365 customers over Copilot price rises

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions, asking whether the company misled personal and family customers when it raised [...]

Nvidia partner ChipAgents raises $60M for agentic chip design

ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software can be tu [...]