Adamant about retaining its runaway lead in supplying smart driving systems in China, Huawei Technologies plans to invest as much as 80 billion yuan (US$11.7 billion) over the next five years to boost computing power essential for training and testing semi-autonomous cars. The massive capital expenditure would enhance the reliability of cars fitted with the Huawei Qiankun ADS autopilot system, as ...
Adamant about retaining its runaway lead in supplying smart driving systems in China, Huawei Technologies plans to invest as much as 80 billion yuan (US$11.7 billion) over the next five years to boost computing power essential for training and testing semi-autonomous cars. The massive capital expenditure would enhance the reliability of cars fitted with the Huawei Qiankun ADS autopilot system, as the Shenzhen-based tech giant looked to expand its customer base, said Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei’s...
jewhyte Microsoft ( MSFT ) is offering voluntary buyouts to a portion of its U.S. workforce - marking a first for the 51-year-old software giant - as the tech industry navigates significant shifts driven by the rise of artificial intelligence. According to an internal memo obtained by CNBC and Bloomberg , the company extended buyout offers to roughly 7% of its U.S. employees on Thursday. Microsoft...
jewhyte Microsoft ( MSFT ) is offering voluntary buyouts to a portion of its U.S. workforce - marking a first for the 51-year-old software giant - as the tech industry navigates significant shifts driven by the rise of artificial intelligence. According to an internal memo obtained by CNBC and Bloomberg , the company extended buyout offers to roughly 7% of its U.S. employees on Thursday. Microsoft employed roughly 228,000 people as of June 2025, and of those, 125,000 were in the U.S., according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing . Those eligible for the buyouts include workers at the senior director level and below and employees whose years of employment at Microsoft and age add up to 70 or more. Details for the buyouts will be disclosed to eligible employees and their managers on May 7, CNBC reported. The development comes as Meta Platforms ( META ) has confirmed to its employees that it will conduct job cuts next month and will close 6,000 open roles in an effort to increase efficiencies and offset heavy spending on its artificial intelligence ambitions. More on Microsoft Microsoft: The Dumbest Sell-Off In Big Tech Microsoft Stock Is Cheap Into Earnings Microsoft Q3 Preview: This Earnings Print Could Change Everything ServiceNow's historic plunge drags enterprise software sector down Microsoft to invest $18B in Australia to expand AI, cloud and digital infrastructure
Shares in Australian miner IGO Ltd. tumbled as much as 14% after the company delivered a major downgrade to production guidance for Greenbushes, the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine. The company slashed expectations for full-year output to between 1.38 million and 1.43 million tons, versus 1.50 million to 1.65 million tons previously. That’s a 13% reduction at the top end, and the company sa...
Shares in Australian miner IGO Ltd. tumbled as much as 14% after the company delivered a major downgrade to production guidance for Greenbushes, the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine. The company slashed expectations for full-year output to between 1.38 million and 1.43 million tons, versus 1.50 million to 1.65 million tons previously. That’s a 13% reduction at the top end, and the company said there were “systemic” issues at the site that would take time to address. “Performance has been challenged across a number of metrics including safety, feed grade, recoveries, maintenance execution and plant reliability,” IGO said in its quarterly earnings statement . The share slump early Friday was the biggest intraday decline since September last year. Greenbushes accounts for around a fifth of the world’s lithium output and has low costs versus other hard-rock lithium miners, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. But its ramp-up has proved unsteady in recent years, even as the global lithium market recovers from a long drop. Stronger lithium prices helped cushion the blow, and IGO’s underlying earnings before tax and other items rose to A$119 million ($85 million), from A$30 million a year earlier. “This was a Greenbushes-driven miss, and more importantly, a reset in expectations rather than a one-off shortfall,” analysts from Royal Bank of Canada wrote in an emailed note. “This is a material negative skew.” Greenbushes is owned 51% by a joint venture between IGO and China’s Tianqi Lithium Corp. , with the balance held by Albemarle Corp. Tianqi’s Hong Kong shares were little changed on Friday in Hong Kong.