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Amazon is launching an update to Alexa Plus that enables the assistant to connect with smart home devices from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, automaticall…

SpaceX has asked the FCC for permission to orbit 100,000 third-generation (Gen3) Starlink satellites, which the company says will provide the communications backbone of the AI age with ultra-low laten…

The White House says more than 200 organizations, including 23 Republican governors, 150 utilities, 28 data center developers, and seven major AI companies, have signed the expanded Ratepayer Protecti…

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have disclosed $1.6507 trillion of future contract payments, comprising $821.4 billion of uncommenced leases and $829.2 billion of purchase and constructi…

Microsoft could sell its ~27% stake in OpenAI for over $200B and redeploy the cash into AI app-layer startups, according to an analysis by Margin Points. The move would allow Microsoft to capitalize o…

Alphabet increased its head count by 11,830 employees to 198,933 between June 2025 and June 2026, even as the tech giant prioritizes long-term AI growth and raises its 2026 capital expenditure outlook…

A Nikkei Asia investigation published July 21, 2026 found that Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle collectively carry $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI obligations, eight times more tha…

Amazon Prime Video is testing an AI-focused overhaul internally called Lighthouse, driven by Jeff Bezos, to deliver AI-derived content recommendations and a refreshed app UI. The initiative aims to hi…

Evercore ISI senior managing director Mark Mahaney projects that Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft will spend an unprecedented $1 trillion on AI capital expenditures by 2027, citing the companies' r…

Alphabet's contracted future spending commitments hit $811 billion at the end of Q2 2026, up nearly $500 billion from Q1, driven by AI infrastructure supply agreements covering chips, data centers, el…

Amazon has cut jobs from its artificial general intelligence team, according to a report from Polymarket. The layoffs affect staff working on AGI, Amazon's initiative to develop human-level AI. The mo…

Alphabet posted its first cash burn on record, a $5.9 billion outflow in the second quarter of 2026, sending its stock down 5% as AI spending soars. The Google parent's aggressive AI buildout now cons…

Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos is personally steering an AI-focused overhaul of Prime Video, internally called Lighthouse, that would use artificial intelligence to personalize recom…

Anthropic, the maker of Claude, is considering mandatory 10b5-1 trading plans for all employees after its expected IPO to preempt insider-trading risks, according to a report by The Information. The m…

Big Tech companies have $1.67 trillion in disclosed future obligations, comprising $821 billion in uncommenced leases and $848 billion in purchase, construction and other commitments, according to a r…

Amazon's Alexa Plus introduces automated routing to specific device settings across partners including Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, and Eufy, enabling natural-language co…

Goldman Sachs estimates that AI-related corporate debt issuance has reached roughly $489 billion through mid-2026, with Amazon alone raising approximately $53 billion through bond offerings this year,…

Alphabet raised its full-year capital expenditure guidance to between $195 billion and $205 billion on July 22, 2026, nearly double its 2025 infrastructure spending, as the Google parent accelerates i…

MoonPay launched Paybox, a universal AI shopping wallet that lets non-technical consumers use Claude or ChatGPT to complete purchases such as booking flights and restaurant reservations. The tool, ann…

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs, or 13% of its global workforce, and recorded $1.84 billion in severance costs as it redirects capital toward AI infrastructure and data centers, according to the company's SEC …