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Reçu — 23 janvier 2026 ⏭

Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost From AI Rush

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Par : msmash
23 janvier 2026 à 21:25
An anonymous reader shares a report: Shares of Japanese toilet maker Toto gained the most in five years after booming memory demand excited expectations of growth in its little-known chipmaking materials operations. The stock surged as much as 11%, its steepest rise since February 2021, after Goldman Sachs analysts said Toto's electrostatic chucks used in NAND chipmaking will likely benefit from an AI infrastructure buildout that's tightening supplies of both high-end and commodity memory. [...] Known for its heated toilet seats, the maker of washlets has for decades been part of the semiconductor and display supply chain via its advanced ceramic parts and films. Its electrostatic chucks -- which it began mass producing in 1988 -- are used to hold silicon wafers in place during chipmaking while helping to control temperature and contamination, according to the company. The company's new domain business accounted for 42% of its total operating income in the fiscal year ended March 2025, Bloomberg-compiled data show.

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The Great Graduate Job Drought

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23 janvier 2026 à 20:41
Global hiring remains 20% below pre-pandemic levels and job switching has hit a 10-year low, according to a LinkedIn report, and new university graduates are bearing the brunt of a labor market that increasingly favors experienced candidates over fresh talent. In the UK, the Institute of Student Employers found that graduate hiring fell 8% in the last academic year and employers now receive 140 applications for each vacancy, up from 86 per vacancy in 2022-23. US data from the New York Federal Reserve shows unemployment among recent college graduates aged 22-27 stands at 5.8% versus 4.1% for all workers. Recruiter Reed had 180,000 graduate job postings in 2021 but only 55,000 in 2024. In a survey of Reed clients last year, 15% said they had reduced hiring because of AI. London mayor Sadiq Khan said the capital will be "at the sharpest edge" of AI-driven changes and that entry-level jobs will be first to go.

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Ubisoft prend conseil auprès de son voisin Cooperl Montfort pour sa restructuration

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Par : Estyaah
23 janvier 2026 à 20:40

Vous n’avez pas pu y échapper, vous avez sans doute vu qu’Ubisoft avait tranché dans le lard. Six jeux annulés dont un très attendu, de nombreux reports, des studios fermés, une restructuration et une annonce prévue le 12 février prochain vécue comme une épée de Damoclès par les employés, voici le fabuleux programme déroulé mercredi en conférence de presse par le géant breton. L’objectif serait d’économiser 200 millions d’euros en deux ans, et ainsi réduire les coûts fixes annuels à 1,25 milliards d’euros à l’horizon 2028, au lieu de 1,75 milliards dépensés sur l’année fiscale 2022/2023. Les investisseurs, quant à eux, ont pris acte en paniquant comme il faut, puisque le titre a chuté en bourse de près de 40 %.

D’après les économies prévues, Insider Gaming estime le nombre de licenciements à venir à environ 2 400, ce qui amènerait le nombre d’employés autour des 15 000. Cela s’accompagnera de fermetures de studios un peu partout, comme celui d’Ubisoft Stockholm, mais l’information sur les autres n’a pas encore été communiquée. Et pour éviter d’avoir à trop mettre la main au portefeuille, surtout en France, Ubisoft choisit de couper toute possibilité de télétravail, afin de dégrader la qualité de vie des salariés et les pousser doucement vers la sortie. Une relation saine et équilibrée entre employeur et employés. Un appel à la grève pour une demi-journée a été lancé par Solidaires Informatique, pour un rendez-vous moins de 24 h après les annonces, sans doute pour marquer le coup. On n’a pas trouvé de bilan de la mobilisation, mais elle devrait être suivie de nouvelles journées de débrayage, si l’on en croit les syndicats.

Du côté des jeux, l’annonce de la restructuration en cinq « maisons créatives » permet de voir quelles sont les licences qui subsistent, mais on ne peut pas dire que ça donne spécialement envie. Et surtout, il n’y a que Vantage Studio qui travaille sur un FPS, l’ancêtre Rainbow Six: Siege qui vient de fêter ses 10 ans. Heureusement, le géant breton nous annonce qu’il se focalisera désormais sur ce qui compte réellement pour les joueurs : les mondes ouverts, les GAAS (Game As a Service) et l’IA générative. Miam.

Wall Street Pushes Solo 401(k)s as More Americans Work for Themselves

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Par : msmash
23 janvier 2026 à 20:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: A niche retirement plan favored by freelancers is quickly becoming a hot Wall Street sales pitch, as more and more Americans look for ways to shelter a bigger chunk of their paychecks from taxes. Known as solo 401(k)s, they allow the self-employed to contribute $72,000 a year into tax-advantaged retirement accounts. That's nearly three times the maximum for typical salaried workers in the US. While they've existed for decades serving a workforce that often struggled to earn enough to max out those contributions, wealth planners like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Betterment are now racing to tap into burgeoning demand from a newer, and wealthier cohort: Post-pandemic contractors and self-employed DIY savers looking to shelter more income, grow assets tax-deferred or tax-free, all with the click of a button. The pitch is simple: Because of a quirk in the tax code, self-employed workers effectively contribute twice to their 401(k)s -- once as an employee on their own behalf and then again as a business owner making matching contributions. The platforms take care of the paperwork and clients get institutional-level tax planning and investment flexibility. More than three-quarters of America's record 36 million small businesses now have just a single employee, the owner. Cerulli Associates projects that total 401(k) plans in the U.S. will surpass 1 million by 2030, and the fastest growth is expected in sub-$5 million "micro" accounts.

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'Almost Everyone' Laid Off at Vimeo Following Bending Spoons Buyout

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Par : msmash
23 janvier 2026 à 14:40
Vimeo is laying off employees around the world just months after Italian software company Bending Spoons completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of the video hosting platform. Dave Brown, Vimeo's former brand VP, described the cuts on LinkedIn as affecting "a large portion of the company." One video engineer claimed "almost everyone" was laid off, "including the entire video team," and another software engineer said he lost his job alongside "a gigantic amount of the company." This marks Vimeo's second round of layoffs in less than six months. The company cut 10% of its workforce in September, just one week before Bending Spoons announced its acquisition plans. Bending Spoons has a history of post-acquisition layoffs at companies including WeTransfer, Filmic, and Evernote.

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Reçu — 22 janvier 2026 ⏭

Autodesk To Cut 1,000 Jobs

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Par : msmash
22 janvier 2026 à 16:44
Autodesk said today it plans to cut approximately 1,000 jobs, or roughly 7% of its workforce, as part of what the company described as the final phase of a global restructuring effort aimed at strengthening its sales and marketing operations. The maker of AutoCAD and other digital design software said a significant portion of the cuts will fall within customer-facing sales functions.

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La fin d’Ampere : pourquoi Renault tue soudainement son entité dédiée aux voitures électriques

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Par : Robin San Vicente
22 janvier 2026 à 10:52

Ampere, l'entité dédiée au développement et à la fabrication des voitures électriques de Renault, va fermer ses portes. En soi, rien ne change pour nous, ni pour les salariés qui garderont leur emploi.

Reçu — 21 janvier 2026 ⏭

Ozempic is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry

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Par : msmash
21 janvier 2026 à 21:22
New research from Cornell University has tracked how households change their spending after someone starts taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, and the numbers are material enough to explain why food industry earnings calls keep blaming everything except the obvious culprit. The study analyzed transaction data from 150,000 households linked to survey responses on medication adoption. Households cut grocery spending by 5.3% within six months of a member starting GLP-1s; high-income households cut by 8.2%. Fast food spending fell 8.0%. Savory snacks took the biggest hit at 10.1%, followed by sweets and baked goods. Yogurt was the only category to see a statistically significant increase. As of July 2024, 16.3% of U.S. households had at least one GLP-1 user. Nearly half of adopters reported taking the medication specifically for weight loss rather than diabetes management. About 34% of users discontinue within the sample period, and when they stop, candy and chocolate purchases rise 11.4% above pre-adoption levels. Further reading: Weighing the Cost of Smaller Appetites.

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AI Company Eightfold Sued For Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers

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Par : msmash
21 janvier 2026 à 18:44
Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed AI hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge. From a report: The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday accusing Eightfold of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act shows how consumer advocates are seeking to apply existing law to AI systems capable of drawing inferences about individuals based on vast amounts of data. Santa Clara, California-based Eightfold provides tools that promise to speed up the hiring process by assessing job applicants and predicting whether they would be a good fit for a job using massive amounts of data from online resumes and job listings. But candidates who apply for jobs at companies that use those tools are not given notice and a chance to dispute errors, job applicants Erin Kistler and Sruti Bhaumik allege in their proposed class action. Because of that, they claim Eightfold violated the FCRA and a California law that gives consumers the right to view and challenge credit reports used in lending and hiring.

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Ubisoft Cancels Six Games, Slashes Guidance in Restructuring

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Par : msmash
21 janvier 2026 à 18:04
Ubisoft is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance as the Assassin's Creed maker restructures its business into five units. From a report: The French gaming firm expects earnings before interest and tax to be a loss of $1.2 billion the fiscal year 2025-2026 as a result of the restructuring, driven by a one-off writedown of about $761 million, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Ubisoft also expects net bookings of around $1.76 billion for the year, with a $386 million gross margin reduction compared to previous guidance, it said. Six games, including a remake of Prince of Persia The Sands of Time, have been discontinued and seven other unidentified games are delayed, the company said. The measures are part of a broader plan to streamline operations, including closing studios in Stockholm and Halifax, Canada. Ubisoft said it will have cut at least $117 million in fixed costs compared to the latest financial year by March, a year ahead of target, and has set a goal to slash an additional $234 million over the next two years.

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OpenAI and ServiceNow Strike Deal to Put AI Agents in Business Software

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Par : BeauHD
21 janvier 2026 à 01:25
According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI and ServiceNow signed a three-year deal to embed AI agents directly into ServiceNow's enterprise workflows. CNBC reports: As part of the deal, ServiceNow will integrate GPT-5.2 into its enterprise workflow platform and create AI voice technology harnessing these models. "Bringing together our engineering teams and our respective technologies will drive faster value for customers and more intuitive ways of working with AI," said Amit Zavery, president, chief operating officer, and chief product officer at ServiceNow.

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Reçu — 20 janvier 2026 ⏭

Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

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Par : BeauHD
20 janvier 2026 à 22:40
A PwC survey of more than 4,500 CEOs found that over half report no revenue growth or cost savings from their AI investments so far, despite massive spending. Of the 4,454 business leaders surveyed, only 12% saw both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56% saw neither benefit. "26% saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases," adds The Register. From the report: AI adoption remains limited. Even in top use cases like demand generation (22 percent), support services (20 percent), and product development (19 percent), only a minority are deploying AI extensively. Last year, a separate PwC study found that only 14 percent of workers indicated they were using generative AI daily in their work. Despite the CEOs' repsonses, PwC concludes more investment is required. It claims that "isolated, tactical AI projects" often don't deliver measurable value, and that tangible returns instead come from enterprise-wide deployments consistent with business strategy. [...] In terms of the broader picture, PwC says it found CEO confidence has hit a five-year low, with only 30 percent optimistic about revenue growth (down from 38 percent last year). This points to growing geopolitical risk and intensifying cyber threats, as well as uncertainty over the benefits and downsides of AI. Unsurprisingly, concern remains over tariffs as the Trump administration continues its erratic approach to policy, with almost a third of company chiefs saying tariffs are expected to reduce their company's profit margin in the year ahead. In the U.S., 22 percent indicate their corporation is highly or extremely exposed to tariffs. PwC warns that companies avoiding major investments due to geopolitical uncertainty underperform peers by two percentage points in growth and three points in profit margins.

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Créer sa boîte en 48h dans toute l’UE : la promesse choc de Bruxelles pour changer la vie des entrepreneurs

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Par : Amine Baba Aissa
20 janvier 2026 à 15:07

En marge du Forum économique mondial de Davos, le 20 janvier 2026, la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, a officialisé la création d’EU‑INC, un projet attendu par de nombreux entrepreneurs européens qui vise à instaurer une seule forme de société paneuropéenne, avec un registre unique et des règles standardisées, pensée sur mesure pour les startups et scale‑ups du continent.​

Amazon CEO Jassy Says Tariffs Have Started To 'Creep' Into Prices

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20 janvier 2026 à 14:40
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are starting to be reflected in the price of some items, as sellers weigh how to absorb the shock of the added costs. From a report: Amazon and many of its third-party merchants pre-purchased inventory to try to get ahead of the tariffs and keep prices low for customers, but most of that supply ran out last fall, Jassy said in a Tuesday interview with CNBC's Becky Quick at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "So you start to see some of the tariffs creep into some of the prices, some of the items, and you see some sellers are deciding that they're passing on those higher costs to consumers in the form of higher prices, some are deciding that they'll absorb it to drive demand and some are doing something in between," Jassy said. "I think you're starting to see more of that impact." The comments are a notable shift from last year, when Jassy said Amazon hadn't seen "prices appreciably go up" a few months after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs. Further reading: Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds: Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump and suggests he might have a weaker hand in a reemerging trade war with Europe. [...] The new research, published Monday by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a well-regarded German think tank, suggests that the impact of tariffs is likely to show up over time in the form of higher U.S. consumer prices. [...] By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year's U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

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Reçu — 19 janvier 2026 ⏭

Rackspace Customers Grapple With 'Devastating' Email Hosting Price Hike

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19 janvier 2026 à 21:30
Rackspace's new pricing for its email hosting services is "devastating," according to a partner that has been using Rackspace as its email provider since 1999. From a report: In recent weeks, Rackspace updated its email hosting pricing. Its standard plan is now $10 per mailbox per month. Businesses can also pay for the Rackspace Email Plus add-on for an extra $2/mailbox/month (for "file storage, mobile sync, Office-compatible apps, and messaging"), and the Archiving add-on for an extra $6/mailbox/month (for unlimited storage). As recently as November 2025, Rackspace charged $3/mailbox/month for its Standard plan, and an extra $1/mailbox/month for the Email Plus add-on, and an additional $3/mailbox/month for the Archival add-on, according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Rackspace's reseller partners have been especially vocal about the impacts of the new pricing. In a blog post on Thursday, web hosting service provider and Rackspace reseller Laughing Squid said Rackspace is "increasing our email pricing by an astronomical 706 percent, with only a month-and-a half's notice." Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale told Ars Technica that he received the "devastating" news via email on Wednesday. The last time Rackspace increased Laughing Squid's email prices was by 55 percent in 2019, he said.

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ERP Isn't Dead Yet - But Most Execs Are Planning the Wake

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Par : msmash
19 janvier 2026 à 18:10
Seven out of ten C-suite executives believe traditional enterprise resource planning software has seen its best days, though the category remains firmly entrenched in corporate IT and opinion is sharply divided on what comes next. A survey of 4,295 CFOs, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs worldwide found 36% expect ERP to give way to composable, API-driven best-of-breed systems, while 33% see the future in "agentic ERP" featuring autonomous AI-driven decision-making. The research was commissioned by Rimini Street, a third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP. Despite the pessimism, 97% said their current systems met business requirements. Vendor lock-in remains a sore point: 35% cited limited flexibility and forced upgrades as frustrations. Kingfisher, operator of 2,000 European retail stores including Screwfix and B&Q, recently eschewed an SAP upgrade in favor of using third-party support to shift its existing application to the cloud. Gartner analyst Dixie John cautioned that while third-party support may work in the short or medium term, organizations will eventually need to upgrade.

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Elon Musk veut vider les caisses d’OpenAI et Microsoft : il réclame 134 milliards de dollars

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Par : Lisa Imperatrice
19 janvier 2026 à 15:57

Elon Musk réclame désormais 134 milliards de dollars à OpenAI et à son partenaire Microsoft, dénonçant la transformation de son projet humaniste initial en une structure commerciale lucrative. Un procès devant jury est officiellement attendu pour avril 2026.

Reçu — 17 janvier 2026 ⏭

X va donner un million de dollars pour l’article le plus vu ce mois-ci

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Par : Nelly Lesage
17 janvier 2026 à 11:50

Le réseau social X lance une « nouvelle expérience » à 1 million de dollars. L'article le plus lu sur la plateforme permettra à son auteur de gagner cette somme.

OpenAI s’apprête à tester la publicité dans ChatGPT aux États-Unis

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Par : Nelly Lesage
17 janvier 2026 à 10:30

OpenAI intègrera bientôt de la publicité dans ChatGPT pour les internautes aux États-Unis. Dans les semaines à venir, les versions gratuite et Go de l'intelligence artificielle testeront l'ajout d'encarts publicitaires.

Le Canada opère un virage à 180 degrés et rouvre la porte aux voitures chinoises

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Par : Nelly Lesage
17 janvier 2026 à 09:17

Le premier ministre canadien Mark Carney s'est rendu en Chine pour signer un accord commercial avec le président Xi Jinping. Le partenariat va permettre l'entrée de 49 000 véhicules électriques fabriqués en Chine sur le marché canadien.

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