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Top stories today:
Microsoft to cut 6.4K jobs over next year, with Xbox trimming 20%
Samsung -10% despite 19Ć YoY increase in Q2 operating profit
Anthropic details J-space, Claudeās hidden set of neural patterns
Broadcom extends Apple custom chip partnership through 2031
Tencent releases open-weight 295B-parameter Hy3, rivaling GLM-5.2
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1. Microsoft to cut 6.4K jobs over next year, with Xbox trimming 20%
Microsoftās stock was little changed on the news:
Mon.: Microsoft already eliminated 1.6K Xbox jobs, with another 3.2K layoffs across the company.
Xbox will also divest 4 game development studios and is beginning the process of parting ways with a fifth.
More divisions will undergo similar restructuring, Microsoft CPO Amy Coleman suggested.
The planned cuts will amount to <3% of Microsoftās total headcount of ~228K.
Relatedly, Xbox has appointed Helen Chiang as its first COO after she led the Minecraft franchise.
Xbox Game Pass has reportedly ~30M subscribers, vs. Microsoftās ~77M target for 2026.
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3. Samsung -10% despite 19Ć YoY increase in Q2 operating profit
Samsungās preliminary Q2 operating profit came in 6% above estimates at KRW 89.4T (~$58.4B):
+129% YoY in Q2 revenue to KRW 171T (~$111.7B).
Late Jul.: Samsung is slated to release its full financial results, including net profit and divisional breakdowns.
Samsungās stock has underperformed rivals SK Hynix and Micron
Samsung shares are +150% this year, vs. 250% for SK Hynix.
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5. Anthropic details J-space, Claudeās hidden set of neural patterns
The J-space emerged naturally during Claudeās training, Anthropic said:
The collection operates silently in the modelās internal neural activations, allowing it to think about a concept without writing it down.
Named after the Jacobian, the mathematical technique Anthropic used to detect it.
Separate from the āchain-of-thoughtā reasoning Claude shares with users.
J-space patterns activate when a user asks Claude to think about something or solve a problem
Monitoring J-space could help detect model misalignment or scheming, Anthropic suggested.
