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Key highlights:

• Amazon pressures brands on pricing, pushing some to pull lower-margin products as retail margins rise.
• Meta tracks 60 trillion tokens as employees compete for AI usage status internally.
• Microsoft has frozen hiring in key cloud and sales groups as it prioritizes improving operating margins.

Meta & Apple

Exclusive Meta Employees Vie for AI ‘Token Legend’ Status By Jyoti Mann

Exclusive Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds By Jyoti Mann

Exclusive Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps By Stephanie Palazzolo and Aaron Tilley

Exclusive Apple Kicks Vibe Coding App Out of App Store, Escalating Crackdown By Aaron Tilley

Amazon

Exclusive Amazon’s Tough Stance on Prices Prompts Brands to Pull Products By Ann Gehan

Exclusive Amazon’s AI Chat Ads Yield Data but Few Sales By Catherine Perloff

Exclusive AWS Accelerates Internal AI Agents Following Staff Cuts By Kevin McLaughlin

Exclusive Amazon Acquires Robotics Startup, Boosting Efforts to Streamline Deliveries By Catherine Perloff and Valida Pau

Microsoft & Google

Exclusive Microsoft Freezes Hiring in Major Cloud and Sales Groups By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes

The Briefing Google’s Gemini Steals a March on OpenAI By Martin Peers

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