Sonos announced that it has laid off 200 people in a letter posted to its site Wednesday. The news follows a 100-person layoff in August. Both rounds arrive in the wake of a disastrously botched update to the Sonos app that alienated broad swaths of the premium audio hardware firm’s extremely loyal fanbase. The new
AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday. The model, known as s1, performs similarly to cutting-edge reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, on tests measuring math
Key Takeaways Amazon will be the first of America’s major retailers to report fourth-quarter earnings when it posts results after markets close on Thursday. After a record-breaking holiday shopping season, analysts expect retailers to report strong sales. Consumer spending growth is expected to accelerate this year, but analysts warn tariffs and a stock market downturn
MicroStrategy (MSTR) reported a wider-than-expected loss for the fourth quarter and said it is changing its name to “Strategy.” The largest corporate holder of bitcoin saw revenue fall 3% year-over-year to $120.7 million, below the analyst consensus compiled by Visible Alpha. The company swung to a wider-than-expected loss of $670.8 million, or $3.03 per share
Joel Gunter BBC News in Orebro, Sweden Getty Images Swedish police said they were still investigating the motive behind the country’s deadliest mass shooting, as local media began reporting details about the gunman. The suspect, named in reports as 35-year-old local man Rickard Andersson, was reported to be a former student of the school in
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U.S. foreign aid is in disarray. The Trump administration froze most aid disbursements on Jan. 20. According to billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser to President Donald Trump with “special government employee status,” the U.S. Agency for International Development, widely known as USAID, had been shut down as of Feb. 3, 2025. Although the Trump administration
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A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US federal agency that monitors and models the oceans and atmosphere for the purpose of predicting changes in climate and weather, have received orders to temporarily cease communicating with foreign nationals, including those working directly with the US government, WIRED has
One day after US president Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese imports kicked into effect, shipping companies have already started charging higher import duties and processing fees, bewildering American consumers. Over the past 24 hours, US shoppers have reported receiving notices from UPS and DHL stating they owed between $20 to over $50. Some small