Nov 12, 2026
Qualcomm Begins Layoffs in India, Cutting Over 1,000 Jobs
Qualcomm has started cutting jobs in India as part of a global restructuring, with more than 1,000 roles at risk across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and other cities. The chipmaker's revenue fell 3% to $43.1 billion in fiscal 2026, with smartphone chip sales down 25%.
Nov 10, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.2 With 20% Price Cut Ahead of IPO
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on Monday, claiming the top spot on 13 of 15 benchmark score lines against GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Carbon. The new models are 30% faster and 20% cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $8 per million input tokens — undercutting OpenAI's flagship. The launch comes days before Anthropic's blockbuster IPO and marks its first frontier release since CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI development.
Nov 9, 2026
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic Back Unified AI Training Opt-Out in Robots.txt
The four largest Western AI labs will honor a single robots.txt policy token that lets website owners opt out of AI training across all their crawlers at once. Anthropic has already begun implementation; OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft follow in 2027.
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