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AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears. PC component market watcher Mercury Research says AMD's shipments during the third quarter of 2025 outpaced Intel's compared with the same quarter last year.

Eight days before his employment was to end, Luo allegedly hooked up an external hard drive to his Intel laptop, but when he tried to download a file, the company's internal controls blocked the transfer, the lawsuit claimed. Five days later, the lawsuit alleged, Luo deployed a different technology, a more sophisticated gadget that resembles a small computer server, called a network storage device.

Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) and Wiz have moved closer to completing their $32 billion deal. The U.S. Department of Justice has finished its review, which means the agency will not block the acquisition. The step marks an important move toward closing, even though other regulators are still looking into the deal. The news comes just a few days after Alphabet delivered its first-ever $100 billion quarter.

It's been less than a week since OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring that saw Microsoft lose its ability to retain a stranglehold on the AI firm's computing resources, and Altman and company have already inked a $38 billion deal with AWS to start data crunching in another cloud. Prior to the restructuring that closed last Tuesday, Microsoft retained a right of first refusal if OpenAI were to take its cloud computing needs elsewhere,

The actions we took to strengthen the balance sheet give us greater operational flexibility and position us well to continue to execute our strategy with confidence. In particular, I'm honored by the trust and confidence President Trump and Secretary [Howard] Lutnick have placed in me. Their support highlights Intel's strategic role as the only U.S.-based semiconductor company with leading edge logic, [research and development] and manufacturing.

And while it is true that Jobs was as charismatic as Clooney and as manipulative as Machiavelli, the legend we helped him construct served many purposes beyond pumping up his own ego. He was an irresistible force who knew that in order to bring to market the amazing technological wonders that bubbled in his imagination, he also had to become the Svengali of the digital revolution that was to be the hallmark of his generation.

Many of the world's largest websites, including Snapchat, Reddit and Roblox, were knocked offline on Monday after a huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. More than 1,000 apps and websites - including banks such as Lloyds and Halifax - were impacted by problems at the heart of the cloud computing giant's operations in the US, according to platform outage monitor Downdetector. It said reports from users of problems globally had soared to more than 6.5 million during the outage on Monday morning. While Amazon said it had resolved the outage by 12:00 BST, experts say it demonstrates the perils that come with lots of companies relying on a single, dominant provider.

New graduates are leaving college and heading into a tough labor market-entry-level roles are dwindling, managers are wary of hiring Gen Z candidates, and AI continues to automate more jobs. But Meta is actively on the hunt for fresh talent, and it's willing to pay the big bucks for the brightest young minds. The $1.8 trillion technology company has a few entry-level jobs on the market: a Full-stack software engineer, and multiple product software engineer roles.

TSM's growth story in 2025 hinges on artificial intelligence (AI) demand, which has transformed the company from a steady foundry into an indispensable AI enabler. Second-quarter revenue hit $30.1 billion, a 44% year-over-year jump that exceeded analyst forecasts. This beat stemmed from robust orders for advanced nodes like 3-nanometer (nm) and 5nm, which power Nvidia's GPUs and Apple's latest processors. Advanced technologies, defined as 7nm and more advanced technologies, accounted for 74% of total wafer revenue.

Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech. The x86 giant began volume production of the processor's compute tiles at Fab 52 located at its Ocotillo campus in Arizona this summer, with the first notebooks and computers based on the SoC slated for release around the time of CES early next year.

According to internal documents viewed by CNBC, working remotely for even a single day will now count for a full week. "Whether you log 1 WFA day or 5 WFA days in a given standard work week, 1 WFA week will be deducted from your WFA weekly balance," according to a document that was circulated over the summer, shortly before the change went into effect.

Nair found the interview process at both companies to be "fairly similar," he said, with strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and system design. "Each company evaluated candidates for both technical expertise and cultural fit," Nair said, through four to five technical interviews and then a cultural-fit assessment. However, he found Google's technical interview process to be the hardest out of the Big Tech companies he's interviewed at.

I once played squash with a wealthy investor at a private club in Singapore. Even though it was a friendly game, I still didn't want it to be a total wipeout. I'm not great at squash, and I knew my opponent was a regular player. But he was in his 60s, and I was in my 30s, so I figured how hard could it be? Surely, I could outrun and outwork him.

"Right now, San Jose 311 really relies on our residents to report issues in San Jose and that shouldn't be their job," San Jose Information Technology Dept. Public Information Manager Chelsea Palacio said. "That should be on the city to find those issues and resolve them. So, with AI technology, we're hoping that we can be a more proactive city."

Based on his research and conversations with friends who'd gone through the process, Kumar said he expected the background check to take no more than 15 days - but day 20 passed, then day 25, with no update. The company doing the background check told him the delay was tied to his lack of prior work experience in the US, which complicated the process.

It's important to note that this was all tested on the X2 Elite Extreme configuration, which comes with six additional CPU cores over the standard X2 Elite. There were no X2 Elite systems to test, so we don't know what those multi-core scores will be. I've been told that GPU performance will also scale up on the X2 Elite, but we don't yet know how much faster the X2 Elite Extreme is over its sibling.

Business Insider spoke to AI executives outside Big Tech, who said they worry the fees could hinder progress and limit the potential of startups. It could also help the US develop its own talent, one of them said. H-1B visas allow US employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers for specialized jobs. These visas have become a mainstay of the tech industry, with tech giants and startups alike hiring thousands of H-1B workers every year.

It's as if on a dating side, they were looking for a date, they were trying to get a date and they were running the website that puts people together. That's Google's business,