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Microsoft's one-time retirement program will be open to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more. The company is also decoupling stock ...

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The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...

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