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Microsoft announced the reduction of 4,800 positions, accounting for approximately 2.1% of its global workforce. The Xbox gaming division is the hardest hit, having laid off 1,600 people on July 6, with an additional 1,600 expected to be cut within this fiscal year, totaling about 3,200 positions. Asha Sharma, the Xbox CEO who took over in February, candidly told employees that the business is currently not healthy, stating that Xbox's profit margins are three to ten times lower than those of similar platforms and publishing businesses, with rising console component costs exacerbating competitive pressure against Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Switch.Microsoft will also divest four previously acquired studios, with Compulsion Games and Double Fine operating independently, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be transferred to new owners, partially reversing the gaming landscape built by the $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard three years ago. Chief Human Resources Officer Amy Coleman stated that the company launched a buyout plan in April, with over one-third of eligible employees accepting it. Microsoft's stock price has dropped about 19% over the past six months.

According to reports from Jiemian News, Kingsoft Cloud will accelerate the construction of GPU computing clusters in the second half of the year to meet the explosive growth in computing power demand from major clients. Among them, Xiaomi's demand for Kingsoft Cloud's GPU computing power has upgraded from a ten-thousand-card cluster, with the related budget significantly increasing from nearly 4 billion yuan to over 10 billion yuan. In addition, Alibaba's large model team has signed a 5-year computing power leasing contract with Kingsoft Cloud, involving more than 3,000 eight-card GPU servers. Based on the contracted price, the annualized revenue after full delivery will exceed 4 billion yuan.To meet the surging customer demand, Kingsoft Cloud's capital expenditure plan for 2026 has been raised to 15 billion yuan, with an annual revenue target of 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion yuan. It is reported that due to tight upstream supply, Kingsoft Cloud is currently only accepting long-term contracts from clients for 3 to 5 years, and some orders are facing delivery delays. Due to concerns about the risk of impairment of high-level card assets, Kingsoft Cloud is currently pausing aggressive hardware expansion, anticipating that the prices of computing hardware may reach a turning point for decline in the third quarter of this year.

According to Jinshi reports, SoftBank Group has executed $10 billion of its $30 billion follow-up investment in OpenAI.

Binance will launch trading pairs for bStocks Lumentum (LITEB), Meta (METAB), Microsoft (MSFTB), Palantir (PLTRB), and Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQB) on June 30, 2026, at 21:30. The trading pairs will be LITEB/USDT, METAB/USDT, MSFTB/USDT, PLTRB/USDT, and QQQB/USDT, with zero maker fees during the event, ending on September 1, 2026, at 07:59. Deposit and withdrawal services will open on the same day at 22:30.

According to Jinshi reports, NVIDIA announced that Anthropic's Claude series models are now available on Microsoft's Azure NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra platform.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, stated that researchers have exposed a high-risk vulnerability in CI/CD called Cordyceps, affecting the open-source repositories of major companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare. Attackers do not need corporate accounts or any system permissions; they can simply register a free GitHub account, submit a malicious PR, and leave a comment to forge approvals, steal server keys, and push malicious code, completely taking control of the corporate code repository.

Qualcomm announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Modular to strengthen its generative AI and agent-based AI software foundation for data centers and edge environments. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.Qualcomm stated that Modular provides an open AI-native software stack that enables AI to run efficiently across different hardware architectures. Its unified platform supports CPU, GPU, NPU, and custom ASIC architectures without the need to rewrite models for each type of accelerator. For developers and enterprises, this means they can build once and deploy in different environments while reducing overall ownership costs.Qualcomm noted that as AI scales, efficiency rather than capability is becoming the limiting factor. Performance per watt will impact inference costs, and costs determine whether AI can scale. This acquisition will further help Qualcomm provide a chip-agnostic computing layer between devices, edge, and data centers, improving performance per watt, increasing hardware flexibility, and expanding the open developer ecosystem.

According to a report by South Korea's "Daily Economic News" on Friday, Hyundai Motor Group plans to acquire SoftBank Group's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the American robotics company a wholly-owned subsidiary.Hyundai Motor is expected to hold a board meeting on June 22 to approve the acquisition. The report cited unnamed industry sources stating that SoftBank has notified Hyundai Motor of its intention to exercise the "put option" agreed upon during the previous sale of Boston Dynamics shares to sell its remaining holdings.

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has announced a Windows clipboard trojan threat that has been active since February 2026. This malware combines "worm-like propagation + clipboard hijacking + Tor anonymous communication" to target digital asset users for attacks.

The Microsoft Security Blog reported that the Microsoft security research team discovered a new type of cryptocurrency stealing Trojan named Crypto Clipper. This malware has been active since February 2026, primarily spreading through USB devices that infect Windows users with malicious .lnk shortcuts. Crypto Clipper has a built-in Tor client that connects to .onion hidden services via a local SOCKS5 proxy, enabling covert C2 communication. Its main functions include high-frequency monitoring of the clipboard, stealing mnemonic phrases and private keys, replacing cryptocurrency transfer addresses, capturing screenshots and uploading them, as well as receiving remote code execution commands.Microsoft stated that this malware has worm propagation capabilities, automatically hiding original documents on USB drives and generating malicious shortcuts with the same name, while also creating scheduled tasks for persistent control. Researchers detected it as Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits.A and recommended that users disable autorun for removable devices, restrict script interpreter execution permissions, and closely monitor localhost:9050 Tor proxy traffic and abnormal clipboard access behaviors.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index software sector has recently fallen by 2.1%, reaching its lowest point in over two months.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, Microsoft has established a substantial business by selling OpenAI models to Chinese companies, despite facing intensified competition between China and the United States in the field of artificial intelligence. Among them, ByteDance has been one of Microsoft's largest artificial intelligence clients in recent years, primarily using OpenAI models. Informed sources say that ByteDance's annual spending on Microsoft's artificial intelligence and cloud services is expected to exceed $1 billion.

According to market data, SpaceX (SPCX.O) has increased by 17%, surpassing Microsoft (MSFT.O) in total market value, becoming the fourth largest company in the world by market capitalization. Currently, SpaceX is only behind Nvidia, Apple, and Google's parent company Alphabet.

According to Cointelegraph, SpaceX's stock price broke through $220 in overnight trading, with a market value approaching $2.9 trillion, just $100 billion away from surpassing Microsoft.

Hyperbridge Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Hyperbridge announced the completion of a comprehensive architecture reboot, re-launching after completing security audits, bug bounty incentives, and system reconstruction, and officially transforming into a "hyperstructure." The protocol was suspended after the security incident on April 13, during which it completed a joint audit with organizations such as SRLabs and paid over $150,000 in bounties to security researchers.The team stated that this upgrade removed the original centralized management keys, transitioning to a fully permissionless network of validators and provers, achieving full-stack decentralized operation.This reboot also introduced the "Hyper Fungible Token (HFT)" standard, making each cross-chain asset an independent application layer structure, with issuers autonomously controlling cross-chain behavior rules, including pause mechanisms and throttling strategies. Hyperbridge also released the OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) adapter, which is compatible with existing cross-chain protocols like LayerZero, allowing assets to be migrated to a zero-knowledge proof-based transport layer by simply modifying configuration parameters, without the need to redeploy contracts.In addition, the protocol's business model has shifted from a pay-per-use model to a subscription model, allowing cross-chain applications to pay a stablecoin fee of $50 to $1,000 per month for bandwidth services. The official statement indicated that this upgrade marks Hyperbridge's transition from an early cross-chain bridge project to a fully decentralized infrastructure protocol, aiming to provide a unified interoperability layer for a multi-chain ecosystem without the need for trusted intermediaries.

American software giant Adobe released its Q2 results for fiscal year 2026, with revenue of $6.62 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13%, and an 11% increase when calculated at constant exchange rates; diluted earnings per share were $4.25, and adjusted earnings per share were $5.96. At the end of the quarter, the total annual recurring revenue reached $27.1 billion, which includes approximately $480 million from Semrush. During the same period, GAAP operating income was $2.24 billion, and non-GAAP operating income was $2.95 billion; GAAP net income was $1.71 billion, non-GAAP net income was $2.4 billion, and cash flow from operating activities was $2.17 billion.Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen stated that the record revenue in the second quarter reflects strong customer demand for artificial intelligence products.