Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Xbox will cut hundreds of staff this week and merge several of its game studios. Meta’s Muse app suffered a token-exposure flaw that prompted a hotfix, while Shopify announced it will let Muse complete purchases via Shop Pay. Sensor Tower reports Muse downloaded 902 K times in six days, and Xiaomi, OpenAI, and Alibaba are advancing open-weight and trillion-parameter AI models.