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Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said AI could be an "extinction level" event for theoretical physics and maths, and Elon Musk agreed with a "💯" emoji. Cosmologist Will Kinney had earlier pos…

Reddit shares fell about 9% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has discussed cutting off Google's access to its content for AI, as its $60 million annual deal with Google nears expirat…

Google cut janky scrolling on Chrome for Android by 48% between 2023 and 2026, the company announced on the Chrome Developer Blog. The improvement came from architectural changes like Input Vizard, wh…

Alphabet Inc. priced a £1 billion 100-year sterling bond at a spread of +120 basis points over 10-year UK gilts, with a coupon of 6.125%, as investors placed orders totaling approximately $14 billion,…

AI chip startup Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the company at $10.3 billion, doubling its valuation from $5 billion in December. The company, which builds chips…

Yelp is licensing its reviews, ratings, photos, and business information to OpenAI, giving ChatGPT access to real-time local recommendation data, Axios reported. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said the pa…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai deflected questions about the delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro large language model during the company's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday by focusing on the next-generation Gemini 4…

President Trump will expand his "Ratepayer Protection Pledge" on Thursday, requiring data center developers to pay for their electricity costs instead of passing them on to consumers, with 23 governor…

Data centers consumed roughly 485 TWh in 2025, about 1.5% of global electricity, with AI-focused facilities accounting for around 155 TWh, according to Hannah Ritchie's Our World in Data analysis. A t…

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…

Google reported its first negative free cash flow quarter in Q2 2026, with -$5.8 billion, as the company spent $44.9 billion on AI infrastructure against $39.1 billion in operating cash flow. Total re…

A developer found that their site's table of contents had been invisible for months due to a legacy anchor mismatch, and that fix was part of a broader effort to get articles cited by AI search engine…

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…

The European Union fined Google 890 million euros ($1 billion) for violating digital antitrust regulations by using Google Play and its search engine to steer consumers toward its own services, harmin…

Google's stock fell 7% amid investor concerns over the company's AI leadership and the unclear roadmap for its upcoming Gemini 4 model, according to market analysts.…

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the firm is 'mindful' of 'excessive exuberance' in AI as the company reported Q2 distributable earnings of $2 billion, or $1.52 per share, up 26% from a year ear…

Andreessen Horowitz argues that AI inference is becoming the largest workload in computing history, with demand for inference tokens surging 300x in two years at Google to 3.2 quadrillion tokens per m…

Google's Gemini Intelligence, debuting on Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8, successfully booked a flight from London Heathrow to Dublin in a test, but the feature requires precise phrasing and remains in bet…

Tesla reported second-quarter net income of $1.11 billion, down from $1.17 billion a year ago, as R&D spending surged 49% to $2.37 billion, while revenue jumped 26% to $28.24 billion, beating Wall Str…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori donated $75 million to Vanderbilt University to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco, the largest un…