Microsoft is preparing to cut just under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs that could be announced as early as next week, Business Insider reported on Tuesday, citing sources.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's most powerful particle accelerator, a machine that smashes particles together to study the building blocks of the Universe — has been switched off as CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, begins a major upgrade programme. 

A cyberattack that disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover back in 2025 and inflicted an estimated $2.5 billion in economic damage to the United Kingdom was carried out by Russian hackers, according to a recent report by The New York Times.

Ford has hired back more than 300 veteran quality inspectors after finding that artificial intelligence tools deployed across its manufacturing plants failed to match the skills and experience of human workers, according to a recent report by Bloomberg.

The ransomware group that had breached Apple's Indian supplier, Tata Electronics, has posted files on the dark web that include sensitive component and supplier lists, as well as photographs of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models, according to documents and a source.

WhatsApp launches global username reservations, allowing users to connect and chat securely later this year without revealing their personal phone numbers.

Instagram is testing new ways to give users greater control over the content recommended by its algorithm, as the social media platform continues to refine how people discover posts and videos.

Suno, the generative AI-based music platform, has announced Spark, a new incubator programme that the company says will provide independent artists with grants, marketing support, and mentorship.

Researchers at NYU Langone Health have built a phone game that can spot signs of major depressive disorder in as little as three minutes by tracking how long a person keeps trying when rewards start to shrink.

Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini artificial intelligence models after the social media giant sought more computing capacity than Google could supply, the Financial Times recently reported.

Paul Meade, Apple's vice president responsible for the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI's hardware division, according to a recent report by Bloomberg.

A startup founded by former Meta AI researchers has raised $50 million in Series B funding to help model makers test autonomous AI agents inside simulated digital replicas of real-world systems.

Bangladesh secured three gold medals at the first-ever Asia-Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI), the highest number won by any participating country at the regional competition.

OpenAI has named Prabhjeet Singh, the former president of Uber's India and South Asia business, as its first managing director for the country.

Facebook has announced a new artificial intelligence-powered version of Creator Studio, transforming the platform's creator management tool into a standalone app designed to help content creators grow their audiences and manage their online presence more efficiently.

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, a custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip designed to improve the speed and efficiency of large language model (LLM) inference.

The newly proposed Gambling Prevention Bill, 2026, is slated to repeal the Public Gambling Act of 1867 and introduce a regime targeting not only conventional betting operations but also online platforms, cryptocurrency-based wagering systems, influencer-driven promotion networks, and the digital infrastructure that supports them.

Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a feature that integrates its AI assistant into Slack channels, allowing team members to tag @Claude to assign tasks.

Meta has introduced a new line of smart glasses under its own brand name, simply called Meta Glasses, which start at $299.

Groq, a US-based AI chip and cloud infrastructure company, has raised $650 million in fresh funding to expand its AI inference cloud, the company announced on Monday.