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OpenAI closed a $7 billion tender offer on August 10, 2026, at an $852 billion valuation, followed by the departures of COO Brad Lightcap and CRO Denise Dresser, prompting Ed Zitron's newsletter to qu…

Silicon Valley is losing the public fight over AI data centers, with local opposition blocking or delaying $64 billion in projects between May 2024 and March 2025, according to a Gallup poll showing 7…

A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 55% of adults under 30 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 39% in 2024, and …

Anthropic reported Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The company's growth has boosted market confidence, with prediction markets showing a 98.2% probability of Anthrop…

Google paid $10 million for deidentified business data, software code, and operations records from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, to impr…

Amazon is scanning and destroying rare books to comply with copyright law, according to a post by Steve Klabnik responding to a 404 Media report. Klabnik argues the reporting fails to acknowledge that…

Paul Carleton, a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic's Technical Staff, uses Val Town to develop and test MCP features, including tools for the new MCP specification rel…

Cadence Design Systems CEO Anirudh Devgan argues the company is undervalued, with shares trading around $338.61 against a GuruFocus GF Value estimate of $382.09, implying about 11.4% upside. The compa…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on Tuesday, imposing new restrictions on large AI data centers with peak electricity demand above 25 megawatts, including removal from the…

OpenAI generated $6.7 billion in revenue in Q2 2026, up from $5.7 billion in Q1, according to the Wall Street Journal, with CFO Sarah Friar noting annualized recurring revenue exceeded that quarterly …

An Apple AirTag hidden in a shipment of rare books tracked the books to Amazon's VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, where workers cut bindings off books to scan pages faster, destroying the books, according…

IPullRank's Q3 2026 zero-click and paid-click analysis found that ChatGPT had the highest share of paid clicks among leading Google destinations, with about 4.75% of its Google traffic coming from pai…

Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does no…

Custom AI chips from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are set to grow shipments 44.6% this year, nearly triple the 16.1% growth rate for Nvidia's GPUs, according to TrendForce. TrendForce expects AS…

Amazon has been purchasing large volumes of rare and out-of-print books, scanning them to feed its AI models, and then destroying the physical copies. An investigation by 404 Media, published on Augus…

A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book fitted with a tracking device to an Amazon AI training facility, revealing Amazon's previously unreported book-buying operation for AI training data. The …

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models, and destroying the tomes in the process, according to a report by 404 Media. The report track…

Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis across North America, tripling its electric-truck fleet, with deployments starting in September 2026 and continuing over 24 months. The trucks will serve Amazon…

AI companies are quietly buying up large quantities of physical books in the UK, a trend that signals the exhaustion of public internet data and a shift toward 'dark data' to improve large language mo…

Anthropic may delay its IPO until 2027, according to a market analysis report, amid speculation about the artificial intelligence company's public debut. The company, known for its Claude product, fil…