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The post Xbox’s 2026 Reset Raises the Bar for Web3 Game Studios appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. If you work in games, your Slack probably lit up the minute the Xbox memo hit. It wasn’t the usual corporate tidy-up. It was a gut punch with hard numbers attached. Microsoft said Xbox studios were losing 64 cents for every dollar invested. Then came the reset. Thousands of roles on the line, several beloved studios stepping away from the label, and a clear message to anyone building games in 2026: the bar is moving up, fast. Web3 studios aren’t immune. If anything, they’re now under brighter lights. On July 6, 2026, Xbox announced a global reset of its games business. About 1,600 Xbox roles were eliminated immediately, with a plan to reduce roughly 3,200 Xbox roles through fiscal year 2027. Four studios, including Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs, are leaving Xbox to new management, with Arkane Lyon entering consultation. These details came straight from Xbo
Read full articleMicrosoft's Xbox layoffs highlight a shift towards AI investment, signaling a defensive stance in traditional gaming amid financial pressures. The post Microsoft lays off over 3,000 staff at Xbox division in largest gaming restructuring ever appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
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The post Microsoft’s Emissions Surge Thanks To AI Boom appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Topline Microsoft on Thursday reported its carbon emissions swelled last year as the software giant built new data centers, marking a setback for its climate goals as booming AI demand is expected to drive a sharp increase in global emissions over the next decade. Demand for AI is expanding, but sustainability solutions are “not scaling fast enough,” Microsoft reported. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Facts Microsoft emitted 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent—a measurement of all greenhouse gases as if they were carbon dioxide—last year, a 25% increase from the 16 million metric tons emitted in 2024, the company said in its annual sustainability report. Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said in the report that while AI infrastructure is driving demand for energy, water, land and materials, “sustainabili
New Speakers From Microsoft, UNESCO, the National Science Foundation, and Leading Research Institutions Join A.M. Turing Award Laureates, United Nations Leaders, and Technology Pioneers at Inaugural Event NEW YORK, July […] The post ACM Expands AI Leadership Summit Speaker Lineup with Eight Global AI Leaders appeared first on AIwire.
The post Pulsar Money And Arc Partner To Transform Stablecoin Finance In Europe appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Pulsar Money, a Web3 financial hub that simplifies using digital money, is pleased to announce its upcoming launch on Arc, the stablecoin-native Layer-1 blockchain built by Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin. The purpose of this partnership is to enable European people to store, exchange, and spend digital currencies seamlessly on the Arc blockchain. Primarily, Pulsar focuses on the European market as a multi-currency stablecoin app and maintains partner infrastructure. Due to the multi-currency nature of Pulsar Money, it is very beneficial, especially for the people of European countries, to seamlessly swap between digital dollars, euros, and pounds as stablecoins in a single app. Users don’t need to convert their stablecoin into any other specific currency for use. Pulsar Money Brings AI-Driven Currency Swaps to Virtual Visa Cards Pulsar Money is also providing
OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Work, a unified app for enterprises that combines AI capabilities with essential tools, challenging Microsoft and Google.
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to "identify potential issues earlier," which means "customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release." Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly exploit security weaknesses over the past several months. Security researchers are also using AI to find issues faster, leading to more frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, like the "Copy Fail" exploit that impacted nearly every Linux distribution in May. Similarly, when Anthropic announce … Read the full story at The Verge.
The only certainty is that capital spending is going through the roof
