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Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investment in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M-$236M in charges (CNBC)

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Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

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Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs (Michelle Chan/Financial Times)

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Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based company's first international autonomous deployment (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

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Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved "misappropriation" (Miles Klee/Wired)

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Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site (The Information)

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Sources: PayPay priced its US IPO at $16 per share, below its targeted price range of between $17 and $20; the IPO raised $880M, valuing the company at $10.7B (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)

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Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors (Abhijith M B/Windows Latest)

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Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out "alpha versions" of Project Helix to developers in 2027 (The Verge)

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Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Sources: the foldable iPhone will feature an iPad-like interface for its iPad mini-sized inner display and have an outer screen the size of a small iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticizes the slow pace of Amazon's satellite launches, after Amazon raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to launch up to 1M satellites (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Ripple kicks off a share buyback at a $50B valuation to repurchase up to $750M in shares from investors and employees in a tender offer through April (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic says Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now share full context across open files, and skills are available inside Excel and PowerPoint add-ins (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)

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Amazon raised €14.5B in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency, following a dollar offering on Tuesday that raised $37B (Bloomberg)

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WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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