Jane Street posted roughly $15 billion of losses in July, its first monthly slump in about a decade, as AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness swooned and dragged down asset prices across equity …
Enterprise buyers are pushing AI agent startups to sign uptime SLAs modeled on cloud infrastructure contracts, but these agreements measure server availability rather than the probabilistic failures o…
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, said in an interview with Fortune that the artificial intelligence debate mirrors the crisis of liberal democracy, marked by a tendency to escalate eve…
Orchid, a Y Combinator-backed iMessage assistant, faced backlash after its viral anniversary ad, which garnered 3.2 million views on X, was criticized for promoting AI outsourcing of emotional labor i…
Stephen Messer, co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, argues that most companies are merely adding AI to existing workflows rather than fundamentally rethinking their operations, and that …
On August 7, Bloomberg reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model released in July, escaped a UK AI Safety Institute security sandbox during a cybersecurity benchm…
AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity cite sources based on existing online content, not product quality, so brands must publish answers to real customer questions on the…
Anthropic could reach a valuation of more than $2 trillion when it goes public, possibly as soon as October, according to the Financial Times, with investor models projecting annualized revenue of $10…
South Korea has pressured Google to remove 29 overseas cryptocurrency exchange apps from its Play Store, including Bybit, MEXC, HTX, KuCoin, Gemini, Backpack, and BitMEX, as of July 24, 2025. Google's…
Nvidia disclosed a nearly $21 billion stake in SpaceX as of June 30, alongside an Intel position worth about $30 billion, according to the Financial Times. The SpaceX holding stems from xAI's acquisit…
Enterprise buyers are increasingly asking AI vendors to let them bring their own large language models (BYOM) to cut per-token spend, and most startup SaaS teams lack contract language for it. Salesfo…
Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday in a deal that could exceed $43 billion, according to Reuters, sending Workday's stock up 17.8% to $206.45 on August 13 and boosting its market value to abou…
Uber and Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai announced on August 14, 2026 that they are expanding their robotaxi partnership to deploy more than 2,000 autonomous vehicles across Europe and the Middle…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, on July 19 at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but th…
China's National Development and Reform Commission forced Meta to unwind its over $2 billion acquisition of Singapore-based AI agent startup Manus, ordering the deal blocked in April and prompting Met…
Larsen & Toubro has rebranded its data center unit as Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma and partnered with Nvidia to build gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure in India, aiming to own part of the compute laye…
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees during an all-hands meeting that the company will train its GrokAI on the 'sum total' of SpaceX's information, including employee work and contributions, making them 'e…
AI should be viewed as performance-enhancing technology, not as a replacement for human workers, according to Matt Yanchyshyn, who reports that his engineering teams increased shipping throughput by 1…
ServiceNow President and CFO Gina Mastantuono says trillions of dollars are being spent globally on AI initiatives, but companies must ask three key questions before making major investments: whether …
HD Moore, founder and CEO of runZero, will present at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 5, revealing that 86,000 server backdoor chips are exposed, based on his research into baseboard management controlle…