Selon un rapport du média The Information, Xbox serait à nouveau sur le point de supprimer plusieurs centaines de postes cette semaine, ainsi que de regrouper plusieurs de ses studios de jeux vidéo.

Pour valider le rachat pharaonique de Warner Bros Discovery par Paramount Skydance pour 110 milliards de dollars, les autorités américaines exigent un engagement inédit. Et la note est très salée.

Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg posted "Don't call it a comeback" and linked to LL Cool J's music video for "Mama Said Knock You Out." "Mullenweg's Slack profile picture currently shows him wearing a pirate hat and eyepatch," the report notes. From the report: "Happy to announce the board is back in agreement, and I'm in control of Automattic," Mullenweg wrote in the company-wide Announcements channel on Slack. "A lot happened in the past 48 hours that we need to sort out, and I hope much of it was a misunderstanding, because I have huge respect and regard for those involved." Mark Davies, Automattic's CFO who was set to act as interim CEO according to a statement from Automattic, had his Slack account deactivated as of at least Friday, sources told 404 Media and TechCrunch similarly reported. Davies, Mullenweg, and Automattic did not respond to 404 Media's requests for comment for this story. Techcrunch reported that Mullenweg told them a blog post is forthcoming. On Friday morning, Mullenweg published a blog post on his personal website, titled "Major Life Announcement." In it he announced he's buying a tugboat. "Anybody who's founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch," he wrote in the blog. He did not address the confusion surrounding his status at Automattic. The back-and-forth follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership.

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Les iPhone 18 Pro et 18 Pro Max sont disponibles en précommande aujourd'hui, et ils coûtent bien plus cher cette année. Numerama vous aide à suivre ce lancement avec une sélection de toutes les offres régulièrement mise à jour.

La direction de l'usine Alpine de Dieppe a prévenu ses salariés : la production de l'A390 va ralentir, faute de commandes. Le premier grand pari électrique de la marque cale sur son prix.

Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence against his will, with CFO Mark Davies taking over as interim CEO. The reason for the move remains unclear, but it follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership. TechCrunch reports: Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the company's chief financial officer, Mark Davies, had "conspired" with other board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker to vote to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. The message read: "And the biggest news: I won't be able to make the [meeting] tomorrow. @Mark Davies has conspired with @Ann Dunwoody, @Toni, and @Sue Decker behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that. Wishing Mark and all of you the very best. To clarify @Mark Davies was voted as interim CEO. I received the resolution 50 minutes before the meeting start, and requested repeatedly for time to have it reviewed by independent legal counsel, even a few hours, which was denied." A Slack message to the open source WordPress.org community from the project's executive director, Mary Hubbard, also confirmed Mullenweg's change of status at the commercial company. However, Hubbard said that WordPress.org was not impacted. "Matt remains the leader of the WordPress project and I remain Executive Director of WordPress. Our teams, priorities, and work continue as planned," she wrote.

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Xpeng affirme avoir mis en route la première chaîne de montage automatisée au monde pour robots humanoïdes. Un exemplaire en est sorti tout seul, en marchant : de quoi rappeler à Tesla qu'il n'est plus seul.

Un mathématicien dit avoir approché la résolution d'un problème à un million de dollars avec l'aide de l'IA, celui concernant les fameuses équations de Navier-Stokes. Mais dans l'affaire, il pense que la société d'intelligence artificielle OpenAI a tenté de lui rafler la découverte... et d'écarter un mathématicien travaillant chez Anthropic, son grand rival.

Un mathématicien dit avoir approché la résolution d'un problème à un million de dollars avec l'aide de l'IA, celui concernant les fameuses équations de Navier-Stokes. Mais dans l'affaire, il pense que la société d'intelligence artificielle OpenAI a tenté de lui rafler la découverte... et d'écarter un mathématicien travaillant chez Anthropic, son grand rival.

Mistral AI vient de boucler le plus gros tour de table jamais réalisé par une entreprise tech européenne : une levée de 3 milliards d'euros, portant sa valorisation au-delà des 21 milliards.

Samedi 5 septembre, Sofia Scalia et Luigi Calagna, deux youtubeurs palermitains qui produisent du contenu pour les enfants, se sont mariés devant 6 000 spectateurs payants. Billet d’entrée allant jusqu’à 110 euros, possibilité de rencontrer les stars pour 250 euros, gadgets en vente… Tout a été commercialisé. Ce qui pose quelques questions éthiques à la presse locale.

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Daniela Amodei est présidente d’Anthropic, la société leader avec son assistant IA Claude. Le défi de cette diplômée de littérature anglaise : concilier innovation et transparence.

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Volkswagen valide le plan le plus radical de son histoire : environ 50 000 postes supprimés dans le monde, quatre usines en sursis et la moitié de sa gamme rayée d'ici à 2035. Derrière la cure d'austérité, le cœur électrique du groupe est chamboulé.

Nvidia paie 12 930 300 000 dollars pour Hugging Face, très exactement. Ce chiffre à rallonge cache l'emoji 🤗 et un clin d'œil à l'acheteur.

Nvidia paie 12 930 300 000 dollars pour Hugging Face, très exactement. Ce chiffre à rallonge cache l'emoji 🤗 et un clin d'œil à l'acheteur.

Lucid s'associe au groupe Emil Frey pour vendre ses voitures électriques en France, avec une première apparition au Mondial de l'Auto en octobre. Un pari osé pour une marque qui n'écoule quasiment rien en Europe.

Coup de théâtre après l’annonce officielle, ce 24 août 2026, de la construction d’un parc Dragon Ball en France : il semblerait que les ayants droit ne soient tout simplement pas au courant du projet.

Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email that was also published online.TechCrunch reports: According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring exercise that would shrink the number of managers by 20%, and some personnel in these roles would work as individual contributors going forward. The ridesharing giant is reducing the number of teams with one or two members by 50%, and letting go staff who are "more than seven layers down from the CEO," per Bloomberg. Khosrowshahi's email said the company is combining its engineering, science, and delivery divisions. The company is also bringing together its delivery operations across restaurants, retail, and direct divisions. Remote jobs at the company are going away, too, with Uber only allowing less than 1% of its staff to work remotely.

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Dell reported record fiscal Q2 results as AI server demand surged, booking $60.9 billion in AI server orders and ending the quarter with a $95 billion backlog. From a report: The company posted record revenue of $47 billion, up 58% year over year. Earnings per share came in at $6.34, up 273% from a year ago. Adjusted earnings rose 203% to $7.04 per share. "With AI momentum accelerating and our opportunity expanding across the portfolio, we're raising our full-year FY27 revenue outlook by $25 billion to $192 billion, up nearly 70% year over year," said Jeff Clarke, CEO of Dell Technologies, in the company's earnings release. Dell has seen its orders balloon as enterprise customers adopt artificial intelligence and use AI servers locally to run agentic AI queries. Dell stock is up more than 230% year to date. Peer Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which also moved up 110% since the start of the year, jumped in after-hours trading.

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GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into defense, robotics, aerospace, and government markets while continuing its existing camera business. Engadget reports: Starman's optical transceivers are expected to fall under its umbrella, "extending the Company's reach into the large and rapidly growing market for AI infrastructure in optical transceivers," according to a press release. GoPro is also planning a push into the defense, government, robotics and aerospace sectors, bolstered by the combined company's IP, optics and imaging capabilities. [...] As Reuters notes, GoPro briefly reached a valuation of $4 billion on its first day as a publicly traded company in 2014. Its stock has struggled in recent years, but the share price received a boost on Monday when it was revealed that YouTuber and filmmaker Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) had become GoPro's largest individual shareholder after acquiring an 8.5 percent stake. The move follows a similar pivot made by the struggling shoe retailer Allbirds in April when it announced a pivot to AI compute infrastructure, sending the stock soaring more than 700%.

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