2026-08-14
Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China
Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. UBS is advising. Lightspeed did not reply to Bloomberg’s messages and Coller declined to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-08-14
Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software with a 46 percent merge rate
Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull requests, and 46 percent were merged after human review. Claude Code inventor Boris Cherny sees this as "early signs of life that this might be possible."<br /> The article Claude Code now runs daily m [...]
