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Microsoft announced it will begin reporting Azure cloud revenue every quarter, ending years of disclosing only growth percentages. The move accompanies a restructuring that reduces the company's operating segments from three to two, its first such change since 2015.
Vidact is a new build-time compiler that analyzes React function components and generates plain JavaScript DOM manipulation code instead of shipping a runtime virtual DOM. Component bodies execute only once at mount, and subsequent setState calls update only the specific text nodes and attributes tied to that state. The project is in beta, supports a documented subset of React 19, and rejects unsupported code patterns during compilation.
Broadcom topped Wall Street expectations for its latest quarter, with adjusted earnings of $3.32 per share and revenue of $29.59 billion, both above estimates, while net income more than tripled year-over-year to $13.09 billion. However, the company's fourth-quarter revenue forecast of $34.8 billion came in slightly below the $35.03 billion analysts anticipated, sending shares down 5% in after-hours trading.
At a G20 gathering, leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Palantir urged world leaders to embrace rapid AI development and avoid heavy regulatory constraints. The executives framed AI adoption as essential and non-negotiable, echoing the deregulatory stance favored by the Trump administration.
According to a report from The Information, OpenAI's forthcoming Astra model employs a technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'opaque recurrence,' which processes queries in loops rather than following the linear, step-by-step reasoning typical of current models. This approach reportedly makes it harder to trace how the model arrives at its answers through conventional chain-of-thought monitoring.
An open-source project uses autonomous Claude 5.1 agent swarms to research, model, and validate browser-based 3D reconstructions of real-world locations, starting with San Francisco's Union Square. The system generates buildings, storefronts, traffic, and pedestrians from open data like OpenStreetMap and public imagery, packaged as runnable Three.js applications rather than relying on a game engine or proprietary 3D tiles.
A Walmart Business survey of over 500 decision-makers at companies with 10 to 500 employees found that 37% spend four to seven hours per week on routine purchasing tasks like comparing prices, placing orders and reconciling invoices. The survey also revealed that 87% of businesses juggle two to five suppliers just for everyday supplies, from office goods to breakroom snacks to tech accessories.
The Trump administration filed a court brief supporting OpenAI in its ongoing copyright dispute with publishers over AI training data. Officials argued that restricting AI firms' access to content for training purposes could pose national security risks.
The federal government filed a letter in court supporting OpenAI and Microsoft against the New York Times' 2023 copyright lawsuit over AI training data. The filing argues that using copyrighted articles to train large language models qualifies as fair use because it is 'extraordinarily transformative' and doesn't directly compete with the Times' journalism.
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in New York federal court supporting OpenAI's argument that training AI models on copyrighted news content qualifies as fair use. The filing addresses lawsuits brought by The New York Times and Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, which accuse OpenAI of infringing their copyrighted material to build ChatGPT.
Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit, has filed a lawsuit against four federal agencies demanding disclosure of the confidential process the Trump administration uses to vet frontier AI models before release. The group says virtually no details have been shared publicly or with Congress about which companies participate, how they are chosen, or what legal authority underpins the reviews, and alleges OpenAI has struck a private deal limiting access to its top models to government-approved partners. The lawsuit seeks a court order compelling release of unclassified records by September 30 and an injunction against further withholding.
A retrospective on OpenBSD's history blog describes SMD (Storage Module Device) disks, a storage interface standardized in 1982 and revised in 1987, which powered high-capacity systems throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The piece details how Sun Microsystems used SMD disks paired with Xylogics controllers in its early high-end servers and workstations, noting the drives' massive size, weight, and power draw compared to later interfaces like ESDI and SCSI.