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Software News 15 September 2025 - 5 November 2025

IBM Stock Soars on Quantum Breakthrough and AI Revival – Key Updates (Sept 25, 2025)

IBM layoffs today (Nov. 5, 2025): Big Blue to cut ‘thousands’ of roles as focus shifts to software and AI

IBM said it will reduce a “low single‑digit percentage” of its ~270,000 global workforce in 4Q 2025. Here’s everything confirmed today, what remains uncertain, and how it may affect employees, customers, and investors. Key takeaways (as of Nov. 5, 2025) What’s new today, Nov. 5 How many jobs, and where? Why now? The strategy behind the cuts Timeline of reporting What this means if you’re an IBM employee or customer The open questions Short quote for context “In the fourth quarter we are executing an action that will impact a low single‑digit percentage of our global workforce.” — IBM spokesperson.
5 November 2025
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Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Pounces on Microsoft 365 Outages With Bold ‘Backup Plan’ to Lure Businesses

Google Offers a Lifeline as Microsoft Stumbles Google’s announcement comes at an opportune moment. In recent months, Microsoft 365 has suffered a string of outages and technical glitches that have frustrated corporate customers channelnews.com.au. Just last week on October 8, an authentication issue knocked out Exchange Online email access for many users, one of several incidents that have hit Microsoft’s cloud services this year. Such disruptions “underscore the dependence on Microsoft’s cloud – and the chaos when it hiccups,” as one report put it ts2.tech. Sensing an opening, Google is seizing the narrative: downtime isn’t an occasional blip but an
17 October 2025
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AI Browser Wars Ignite: Perplexity’s Comet Lands in India to Challenge Chrome & Co.

Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Goes Free – Can It Really Reinvent How We Browse?

Comet’s Vision: An AI Browser to Fix a “Broken” Internet Perplexity introduced Comet with grand ambitions. “The internet is broken,” the company declared in its launch blog post, arguing that traditional web browsing traps users in ad-driven click funnels and superficial content perplexity.ai. Comet is positioned as the antidote: an AI-enhanced browser that encourages deeper curiosity by making it effortless to ask questions and dig for knowledge. According to the Perplexity team, early Comet users showed a 6–18x increase in the number of questions they asked online, indicating a surge in curiosity-fueled exploration perplexity.ai. Central to Comet’s appeal is the
5 October 2025
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Anthropic’s New AI Powers Through Code: “World’s Best” Claude Sonnet 4.5 Debuts

Anthropic’s New AI Powers Through Code: “World’s Best” Claude Sonnet 4.5 Debuts

What Is Claude Sonnet 4.5? Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI assistants (named after Claude Shannon). Sonnet 4.5 is the latest “frontier model” optimized for coding and long-horizon tasks. Anthropic calls it a “new generation of coding models” techcrunch.com. Unlike a short-response chatbot, Sonnet 4.5 is built to use tools and software environments autonomously: it can open windows, edit code, run programs, and iterate for hours. According to Anthropic’s engineers, they observed it “maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks” anthropic.com. In effect, Claude Sonnet 4.5 acts less like a fleeting assistant and more like a
29 September 2025
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Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft’s Copilot Unleashes AI ‘Office Agents’ That Write Your Spreadsheets and Slides

Microsoft bills this era of AI-assisted work as “vibe working” – akin to its earlier “vibe coding” for apps. As Corporate VP Sumit Chauhan explains, “in the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts” theverge.com. In practice, that means you start with a simple prompt (“Create a budget workbook and chart for me…”) and the AI agent orchestrates the multi-step process. The Microsoft blog calls it “the new pattern of work for human-agent collaboration” microsoft.com theverge.com. In Excel, for example, Agent Mode can automatically apply financial formulas, build
29 September 2025
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iOS 26 Unleashed: Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ Redesign and Next‑Level AI – An In-Depth Review

iOS 26’s Dazzling ‘Liquid Glass’ Overhaul: Bold Leap or Big Mistake?

iOS 26 Arrives: A Major Upgrade Rolls Out Globally After a summer of beta testing, Apple officially launched iOS 26 to the public on September 15, 2025. The rollout began in the evening (India time ~10:30 PM IST) in tandem with Apple’s worldwide release schedule bizzbuzz.news. The update comes on the heels of Apple’s iPhone 17 event, but it isn’t only for new phones – anyone with a compatible iPhone (11 or newer, or 2nd-gen iPhone SE and above) can download iOS 26 for free via Settings > General > Software Update bizzbuzz.news mezha.net. This also marks the end of
15 September 2025
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