Microsoft's annual Work Trend Index report is here and, unsurprisingly, AI is the hot topic in the 2025 edition. The big takeaway: 1 in 3 business leaders say that they are considering layoffs as a result of AI deployment in their companies. According to the report, 33 percent of leaders are already "considering headcount reductions" because of AI. The new report also highlights how "frontier firms" are integrating AI into their workflow. Microsoft describes these frontier firms as companies "structured around on-demand intelligence and powered by'hybrid' teams of humans agents."

You have my attention, Motorola. The company today is unveiling not one, not two, but three Razr flip phones, including a first-ever'Ultra' model that's feature-packed, fashionably styled, and unsurprisingly expensive at 1,299. I spent an intimate afternoon with all three models ahead of their launch, and, barring the price tag that makes me question the state of the economy, my first impressions were mostly positive. In fact, the Razr Ultra, which I tested the most, left me feeling a little less excited about what's on the docket from Samsung later this summer. The base Motorola Razr model (left) and Razr Ultra (right).

But at the company's closed-door launch event on Wednesday in New York City, much of the spotlight was on Moto AI, artificial intelligence features powered by in-house and third-party large language models, like Meta's Llama. Google's Gemini is naturally available on the Razr phones, but for the first time, the AI search engine Perplexity AI will be preinstalled on the devices. The CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, took the stage to talk about the optimizations made to take advantage of the Razr's unique design. Motorola even says Microsoft's Copilot will also be available in the coming months. The 2025 Razr lineup starts at 700 for the base Razr, 1,000 for the Razr, and 1,300 for the Razr Ultra; the midrange Razr is almost the same device as the Razr from 2024, with a few enhancements to durability.

AI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find out. The language surrounding AI infrastructure, much of which emphasizes "the cloud" and other air-themed metaphors, can obscure the fact that it relies on energy-hungry computers. To run complex computations quickly, AI systems require powerful chips, multiple GPUs, and expansive data centers, all of which consume power when you ask ChatGPT a question. This is part of why free-tier access to many chatbots comes with usage limits: electricity costs make computing expensive for the hosting company.

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Every video game is a miracle. Long hours, extraordinary technical and artistic requirements and cross-disciplinary collaboration: the very act of making games is difficult, and leaves room for catastrophic errors. It's a wonder any of them make it to release at all. Fulcrum Defender, the new Playdate exclusive from Jay Ma, the co-founder of indie darling Subset Games, is one such miraculous game. Ma began work on Fulcrum Defender following a life-changing Covid infection that has greatly diminished her quality of life and ability to do the thing she loves.

There's a new AI in town threatening to take over your territory. The latest version of Perplexity's iPhone app introduces a new voice assistant designed to perform a variety of tasks. Many of these tasks are typically reserved for Siri, as they are not only interactive but can also access key information on your phone. Just like Siri, you can ask Perplexity's voice assistant to set a reminder, schedule a calendar event, play a song from Apple Music, open a podcast, and get directions via Apple Maps. Simply tell it to perform any of these tasks, and Perplexity will interact with the appropriate app or feature and display the results.

'The Big Weekend Show' co-hosts discuss the impact of new artificial intelligence apps on national security and jobs. FIRST ON FOX: A powerful House Committee is demanding information from DeepSeek on what U.S. data it used to train the AI model as members accuse the company of being in the pocket of the Chinese government. In announcing a new probe into DeepSeek, House Energy and Commerce committee members penned a letter expressing concern that companies like it "harvest Americans' personal and proprietary information and introduce new data security vulnerabilities into the U.S. economy." "DeepSeek admits to sending Americans' personal information to servers in China, where it is undoubtedly accessed by officials connected to the Chinese Communist Party," Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., said in a statement. "We are concerned that this close relationship with agents having close connections to our primary adversary jeopardizes our data and our national security."

One of the most important annual events in the field of artificial intelligence kicks off this week in Singapore: the International Conference on Learning Representations. As usual, chip giant Nvidia had a major presence at the conference, presenting over 70 research papers from its team. The papers cover topics ranging from generating music to creating 3D-realistic videos, robot training tasks, and the ability to generate multiple large language models at the push of a button. "People often think of Nvidia as a chip company that makes awesome chips, and of course, we're really proud of that," said Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's head of applied deep learning research, in an interview with ZDNET. "But the story that I think matters the most is that in order for us to make those awesome chips, we have to do research like this, because this teaches us how to make all of those systems."

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant with several new features, The Verge reports. The redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot app now has access to OpenAI's impressive GPT-4o model, which was released last month, via Copilot Create. This means you can now generate cutting-edge images, videos, and other content. Another big feature update is Notebooks, which are project-based notebooks for organizing information like files, pages, and links, which can then be shared with Copilot. This gives Copilot a more focused collection of context to work with, which then informs its answers when you use Copilot for aid in a given project.