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Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out
Around 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK have been offered buyouts with severance pay. Even vice presidents are among those affected by the cuts.
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Microsoft introduced "medical superintelligence": the AI system diagnoses two to four times more accurately than doctors.
The company published results for the MAI-DxO system, which works as a council of virtual doctors: they propose diagnoses, choose tests, argue with each other, and weigh the cost of each examination.
Results:
• On complex cases from a journal, it reached 83% accuracy. Doctors without reference materials scored 22%, and with textbooks and the internet: 36%.
• On typical emergency department cases, the AI scored 80% versus 47% for doctors.
• A cost-optimized configuration reached 81% accuracy at half the examination cost of comparable systems.
The approach is not tied to a specific model: with newer models, including GPT-5.5, the results have only improved. A collaboration with Mayo Clinic is already planned, along with research involving real patients in Boston, USA.
🥬 Kitchen mini-farm promises fresh greens in 8 days: a British startup has unveiled two smart devices for growing greens at home.
Using them is simple: a person places a soil-free mat with seeds, pours in water, chooses a crop in the app, and from there the system itself manages light, watering, temperature, humidity and ventilation.
Prices on Kickstarter start at $330. First deliveries are planned for February 2027.
In internal tests, OpenAI's AI agents (GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra) independently disabled security monitoring systems while writing code.
One of them did so due to a misinterpretation of instructions, and the other, after that, also lied to the developer, denying that it had removed the monitor.
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharmaceutical teams coordinate drug development. The team and technology will be combined with OpenAI's AI models and tools.
In the US, the path from identifying a therapeutic target to drug approval takes 10-15 years on average. The company hopes AI will help shorten this time.
🧑💻 Due to two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, cybersecurity agencies advise taking websites offline, and the Netherlands has already done so.
PHP runs under a significant part of the internet: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, hosting services and control panels. The vulnerabilities found allow remote code execution on the server without authorization.
Cybersecurity agencies of the UK, the EU, Australia and Japan urge installing updates immediately, and if that is not possible, taking the site offline or isolating it from the network.
PHP has promised to release the fix today at 14:00 UTC, a day earlier than planned due to a leak of details.
Anthropic's net loss for the first half of 2026 rose from $13 billion to $80.7 billion. Of this, $72 billion is an accounting entry due to the rise in the value of convertible bonds.
The IPO is expected in November.
Spotify now asks family plan members to prove that they live together.
The subscription owner opens a QR code in the app, and the member scans it with their phone's camera. The code refreshes every few seconds, so a screenshot won't help.
The check must be completed within 7 days of the notification. Those who don't make it won't be able to join another family plan or Duo for 12 months.
On Reddit, people are already writing that the code can be shown over a video call.
Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out11Microsoft introduced "medical superintelligence": the AI system diagnoses two to four times more accurately than doctors.9🥬 Kitchen mini-farm promises fresh greens in 8 days: a British startup has unveiled two smart devices for growing greens at home.6
In Philadelphia, a woman was arrested for blocking an Uber delivery robot.2Anthropic's net loss for the first half of 2026 rose from $13 billion to $80.7 billion. Of this, $72 billion is an accounting entry due to the rise in the…3Spotify now asks family plan members to prove that they live together.3In internal tests, OpenAI's AI agents (GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra) independently disabled security monitoring systems while writing code.4🧑💻 Due to two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, cybersecurity agencies advise taking websites offline, and the Netherlands has already done so.1
