Xbox CEO Asha Sharma sent an internal memo to Team Xbox employees globally today (July 6, 2026), outlining the largest restructuring in the division’s history. The memo details immediate and phased workforce reductions totaling approximately 3,200 roles throughout FY27, including…
OpenAI has implemented the next phase of changes to its self-serve fine-tuning platform. Effective July 2, 2026, organizations that have not run inference on a fine-tuned model in the past 60 days will no longer be able to create new…
Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles beginning in January 2028, the company announced Wednesday on the official PlayStation Blog. In a statement reflecting broader industry trends, new titles will be…
Google has shut down three Veo video generation models in the Gemini API effective June 30, 2026, forcing immediate migration for any remaining production workloads. The deprecated models — veo-2.0-generate-001, veo-3.0-generate-001, and veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 — are no longer available. Developers must…
Oracle has released version 2.1.0 of its Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI (OBaaS), a platform modernization update that quietly signals how even the most traditional enterprise software titan is racing to stay relevant in the Kubernetes + AI era.…
Google shut down gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview today. Developers must migrate immediately to the generally available replacements or face broken image generation calls. gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview Shutdown Google retired gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview on June 25, 2026. The model launched as a preview on February 26,…
Microsoft Partner Center issued its June updates today. Here is a summary: Marketplace Rewards Azure Sponsorship Guidance Issued June 25 Marketplace Rewards partners received updated guidance on Azure sponsorship use cases on June 25. New Check Inventory by Resource Type…
There have been AI booms before. From the 1950s to 1970s, as technologists at Dartmouth predicted that human-level intelligence was just a generation away. By the mid-1970s, the first AI winter had set in. But, by the 1980s, “Expert Systems,”…
Snowflake has started the phased removal of the Legacy Worksheets standalone UI and Legacy Dashboards from Snowsight. The rollout for both changes begins today, June 22, 2026, and will complete over the following weeks. The change is tracked under identifier…
Google has confirmed the sunset of Firebase Studio. New workspace creation is now disabled effective June 22, 2026. Existing workspaces remain accessible for use and migration until the permanent shutdown on March 22, 2027, after which all remaining data will…