Microsoft is reshaping how it reports its business segments to highlight its AI-driven evolution. Starting next fiscal quarter, the company is replacing its three traditional segments—Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing—with two new ones: Devices and Consumer, and Agents and Infra. "Devices and Consumer" covers revenue from Xbox, Windows, LinkedIn, and search advertising, while "Agents and Infra" consolidates income from AI models, cloud infrastructure, and Microsoft 365, including Copilot features. This shift will also bring transparency by breaking out Azure’s quarterly revenue for the first time. CEO Satya Nadella explains the change as a reflection of AI’s transformative impact on technology and business operations, emphasizing a connected approach to customer needs beyond individual apps or services. Historically, Microsoft has embraced quirky terminology, such as pioneering the phrase "dogfooding" in the 1980s and managing modern user-coined terms like "Microslop." This latest naming move continues its tradition of creative corporate language in the AI age.
Volkswagen, the world's second-largest car manufacturer, is moving to become more agile by announcing plans to cut 50,000 jobs. This significant workforce reduction comes as Chinese automakers increase their competitive presence in the market.
Oura advanced toward becoming a publicly traded company by submitting its S-1 filing on Thursday, revealing $1.4 billion in revenue and setting the stage for its IPO.
OpenAI, having already promoted its technology to large enterprises, is now focusing its efforts on law firms. The company aims to showcase how its advanced AI solutions can transform legal services, marking a significant expansion in its presence within the legal industry.
Nearly a year after its launch, Ace Hardware’s retail media platform, RedVest Media, revealed a suite of innovative features at a recent upfront event. These enhancements include weather-triggered programmatic advertisements, designed to boost advertising impact by aligning promotions with changing weather conditions.
Perplexity has unveiled hybrid compute for its AI platform, Computer, enabling a single AI agent to split tasks between cloud-based frontier models and smaller models running locally on Apple silicon Macs. This setup routes sensitive data to local devices, ensuring it never leaves the user's machine. The system uses a Privacy Gate, a classifier running on the device that detects personally identifiable information to prevent sensitive data transmission to the cloud. Users can choose whether flagged data is processed locally or shared. Targeted at enterprises, this approach balances cutting-edge AI intelligence with privacy and security, especially for confidential tasks like legal work, financial modeling, and marketing analytics. The platform supports models from Google, Alibaba, and a proprietary Perplexity-trained version, emphasizing local inference to mitigate geopolitical risks. Perplexity also offers robust controls for enterprise compliance and transparency, including audit logs and opt-out data policies. This innovation addresses the critical challenge of data privacy in AI adoption, blending cloud power with local security to meet professional standards.
OpenClaw 2.0 marks a significant evolution from a personal AI coding assistant into a collaborative platform designed for enterprise use. This update introduces a new browser-based interface that unifies conversations, files, approvals, and agent activity into a shared workspace. Key features include multi-user cloud sessions, role-based permissions, sandboxing, and enhanced security controls, enabling persistent and supervised agent workspaces for teams rather than individuals. The platform now supports a broader employee base with a conversational UI resembling popular AI chat services, while maintaining transparency into the underlying processes. With collaborative session ownership, detailed audit trails, and integration with external credential stores, OpenClaw 2.0 aims to serve as a secure, operational control plane for organizations managing AI agents. Its security posture is configurable, requiring deliberate policy to achieve enterprise readiness, contrasting with competing projects like NanoClaw that embed stronger isolation by default. Despite being developed independently under the OpenClaw Foundation, OpenClaw 2.0 leverages backing from major tech partners and positions itself as a shared digital workspace for AI-enhanced productivity across enterprise teams.
Rob Dobi challenges the traditional view of loyalty as an inherent organizational virtue. With recent political examples highlighting loyalty's pitfalls, the article argues that loyalty often masks obedience, favoritism, or self-interest rather than true commitment to mission or values. Unhealthy loyalty can suppress dissent, enable unethical behavior, and harm organizational performance. Instead, Dobi advocates for a shift away from loyalty towards shared principled commitment, where relationships are based on mutual respect, trust, and a shared purpose. He outlines unhealthy forms of allegiance — coerced, sycophantic, relationship-first, and idealized devotion — contrasting them with the healthiest approach: shared principled commitment. Leaders should cultivate cultures that value open challenge, relational reciprocity, and clear values aligned with organizational purpose. This fosters resilience, ethical behavior, and high performance, ultimately building workplaces where commitment to mission transcends mere loyalty to individuals or status quo.
The board of Delivery Hero has endorsed Uber's proposed $15 billion acquisition. If this deal receives approval, the merged entity is set to become one of the world's dominant food delivery services, significantly expanding its market presence.
Uber is planning to cut approximately 3,300 jobs, around 10% of its global workforce, and exit its operations in Nigeria and Uganda. The company is shifting focus and investment towards developing robotaxi technology. According to an internal memo, affected employees have been informed, except where local regulations require additional steps. In the European Union, this means consulting worker representatives and observing a 30-day waiting period after notifying authorities.
