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Saturday, January 3, 2026
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Topic: Alphabet

Microsoft to cut about 4% of workforce in latest round of layoffs amid hefty AI bets

The Windows maker had pledged $80 bn in capital spending for 2025 fiscal. But soaring cost of scaling AI infra has weighed on its margins.

Google launches AI-powered advertiser features in push for automation

Google and other firms have developed novel chatbots that respond to users in open-ended conversations. AI is being deployed to serve advertisers, who contribute to firm's revenue.

Porn on Amazon’s Kindle app draws flak from Apple, Alphabet – ‘needs to strengthen content’

The companies said their concerns were around policy violations but did not provide more details of how their rules were broken or about their warnings to Amazon.

On Camera

India’s most consequential decade & chronicling it as part of the dream team of journalism

You’d think the decade of 1985-95 is long over. Not really. The issues that erupted in that decade are still shaping Indian conversations.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.