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AI Weekly: Samsung's massive profits, Microsoft's big layoffs

<body><p>STORY: From Samsung's huge quarter to Microsoft's big lay offs...</p><p>This is AI Weekly.</p><p>:: AI Weekly</p><p>Samsung flagged a 19-fold jump in second-quarter profits from a year earlier.</p><p>The South Korean giant estimated April-June operating profit at just over $58 billion - ahead of analyst projections.</p><p>The global AI boom drove huge demand for Samsung's chips, and sent prices for silicon sky-high.</p><p>Although investors wiped more than $80 billion off the firm's market value after the results were announced over worries about how long the AI bonanza will last.</p><p>China plans to allow its top AI firms to buy a limited number of Nvidia's most powerful AI chip, the H200.</p><p>That's according to a report from The Information.</p><p>It said Chinese officials recently told local leaders Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek they may soon get permission to buy some of the chips.</p><p>Beijing has until now withheld approval of buying the H200 as it looks to support domestic suppliers.</p><p>Microsoft said it will cut more than 2% of its workforce, or roughly 4,800 jobs.</p><p>It joins a wave of layoffs at tech titans as they move investments to AI infrastructure.</p><p>Booming AI demand has powered growth at Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing business.</p><p>But the growing cost of building data centers to run those services has hit cash flows.</p><p>And sources told Reuters China's DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip.</p><p>It could lower its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips which is needed to train and run its AI models.</p><p>The sources said the chip is designed for inference, rather than for training new models.</p><p>Inference is the stage of AI computing where a trained model generates responses for users.</p><p>DeepSeek didn't respond to a request for comment.</p></body>

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India removes import duty on some electronics, smartphone parts

India has scrapped import duties ‌on some parts used to make ‌mobile phones and other electronic devices, removing the ​current 7.5% and 5% levies, in a move that could help companies like Apple and Xiaomi. Here are more details: • Items ‌include key ⁠parts for producing wireless charging modules for mobile phones, displays for ⁠medical devices and automobiles, and lithium-ion cells. The exemption will be valid until ​March 31, ​2029.

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Tesla stock gets a surprising SpaceX reset

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