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Business Insider published the memos from Amazon and Microsoft, while Sources published a similar memo from Google. TechCrunch has reached out to Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for comment. According to government data, Amazon employees have received the most H-1B visas so far this fiscal year, followed by Tata Consultancy Services, then Microsoft, Meta, and Apple, with Google ranked sixth. Meanwhile, a White House official told Axios that the fee will only apply to new applicants, not existing H-1B holders or renewals.

Maryland's first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising violated the Constitution as it prevents companies from informing customers about the tax, infringing on their free speech rights.

In 2024, security budgets for chief executives of major tech companies rose above $45 million, with Meta's allocation for Mark Zuckerberg reaching over $27 million.

Researchers at Pantheon Macroeconomics found that AI-related spending accounted for a 0.5 percentage point difference in annualized GDP growth for the first half of the year.

The S&P 500 is up 10% year-to-date, powered by the 'Magnificent Seven' tech giants whose foreign-heavy revenues are being boosted by the weaker dollar. Concentration in the top 10 stocks is at its highest since the 1960s, with earnings strength - 83% of companies beating estimates - driving sentiment.

Publishers are drafting a new role: the AI negotiator. This person sits at the intersection of legal risk, platform power, and content value.

The process for a general product designer role in a tech company includes a recruiter screening call, offline case study review, portfolio presentation, take-home assignment, whiteboard challenge, and multiple cultural fit interviews.

Building and deploying state-of-the-art generative AI models is extremely capital-intensive, resulting in an unsettling race for dominance among the richest companies.

Le Chat is the least privacy invasive LLM platform, closely followed by ChatGPT and Grok, highlighting differences in data transparency and user opts for model training.

The Saturday parade commemorated the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, featuring troops, tanks, a country music performance, and corporate sponsorship from big brands.

Rubrik's expectation-beating performance in Q1, showing improved share losses and significant revenue growth, underscores the company's effective shift towards subscription-based models.

In a worst-case scenario regarding the ongoing antitrust trial, Barclays analysts warn that a forced divestiture of Chrome could lead to a significant stock drop for Alphabet.

We are customers, not their slaves. And we demand answers.

Kantar BrandZ's annual ranking showed that Apple maintained its dominance as the most valuable global brand for the fourth consecutive year, reaching $1.3 trillion.

The UK's Digital Services Tax (DST) remains unchanged as part of the US-UK trade deal, focusing on tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Meta Platforms could potentially surpass Alphabet in the search sector within a decade as generative AI and changing user behavior pose significant challenges to Google's dominance.

Earlier this month, Meta released two new models in its Llama family that it said delivered "better results" than comparably sized models from Google and Mistral.

Apple has announced that it is over halfway to eliminating its carbon emissions, aiming for full sustainability through efforts in its supply chain and by supporting renewable energy.