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Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses

Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industrial action, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

The dispute is about bonuses rather than base pay, and more specifically about how those bonuses are calculated.

The unions want Micron to replace its Incentive Pay Plan with a profit-sharing scheme, arguing that the current system is difficult for employees to understand and pays significantly less than comparable programmes at other memory manufacturers.

The comparison with Samsung and SK hynix is central to their argument. Samsung’s semiconductor division allocates 10.5% of its profits to employee bonuses, while SK hynix allocates 10% of annual operating profit, giving workers a published percentage tied directly to a published financial result.

That difference is about more than the size of the payout. A fixed percentage of...

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KEONICS marks 50 years with a focus on regional technology infrastructure and AI

Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS) has marked its Golden Jubilee, commemorating five decades of involvement in Karnataka’s technology ecosystem and outlining plans to expand technology infrastructure, digital services, skilling and AI initiatives across the state. The celebrations in Bengaluru included the launch of KEONICS’ new logo and

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Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. As that work gets longer, raw intelligence is only part of what matters.

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GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Today, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry. Building on the exceptional customer momentum of GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, this launch continues our work to deliver transformative capabilities in Microsoft Foundry that produce less

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