EP-120 Tesla Q3 Delivery Surge 📈, Microsoft’s Ai Innovations 🔍, Tech Layoff Wave 🌊

AI Briefing Room

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, october 2nd.

• tesla q3 delivery forecast: tesla is expected to report around 463,310 vehicle deliveries, a 6.5% year-over-year increase, driven by sales in mainland china. challenges include brand erosion and introducing a fully autonomous robotaxi.
• microsoft ai and cloud investments: microsoft's commitments to finance leases for ai data centers have surged to $108.4 billion. investors await the upcoming quarterly earnings report for details on these expenditures.
• microsoft copilot ai suite updates: new features like copilot vision, think deeper, and copilot voice enhance the ai's ability to analyze, reason, and interact with users, while focusing on privacy concerns.
• anthropic hires durk kingma: in a talent acquisition move, anthropic has added openai co-founder durk kingma to their team, highlighting the intense competition in the ai sector.
• tech layoff wave in 2024: over 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, including major players like tesla, amazon, and microsoft, as the industry pivots towards automation and ai.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow.