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Wix is preparing for its largest-ever layoffs, cutting approximately 1,000 employees, or 20% of its workforce. This significant downsizing follows a challenging first quarter, marked by a stock decline and increasing redundancy of roles due to AI advancements. Despite double-digit revenue growth, the company reported a net loss and a drop in cash flow, with operating expenses significantly increasing.

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Cisco's chief customer experience officer, Liz Centoni, described AI adoption as "surgery without the drugs," highlighting its difficulty. Cisco learned that simply adding AI to existing workflows didn't solve core issues, leading them to implement intelligent routing for support cases, achieving an 88% first-time correct engineer assignment rate.

GitLab is laying off 14% of its workforce and exiting 22 countries as part of a restructuring to focus on the "agentic era" of software development. CEO Bill Staples stated that savings will be reinvested into AI products, particularly the Duo Agent Platform, to position GitLab as the enterprise platform for AI-driven software creation.

Salesforce is significantly boosting AI spending, projecting hundreds of millions on Anthropic tokens, while halting software engineer hiring. CEO Marc Benioff highlights AI's role in enhancing engineer productivity by over 30%, enabling faster output and lower development costs. This strategic shift reflects a broader tech trend of leveraging AI for efficiency, with humans still integral to operations.

Donald Trump has landed in Beijing with 17 American companies in tow, worth a combined $16.47 trillion—roughly 90% of China's entire 2025 GDP. Jensen Huang joined at the last minute, boarding Air Force One in Anchorage. Nvidia and Apple alone account for $9.7 trillion of that, while Meta sent its policy chief after Beijing blocked its $2 billion Manus deal.

The fall in HCL Technologies’ stock price wiped out around Rs 38,000 crore in market value and brought its total market capitalisation down to about Rs 3,53,000 crore.

The state cabinet on Wednesday decided to allow casinos to resume operations from November 1, but at 50% capacity. Casinos operations have been closed in the state in view of Covid-19 since the lockdown in March.