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US layoffs surged to 97,000 in May, the highest for that month since 2020, with employers attributing 40% of cuts to artificial intelligence, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Tech giants like Oracle and Google …
Two prominent Chinese hedge fund managers, Yang Dong of Wealspring and Shanghai Banxia, warned investors that the global AI rally has become a "super bubble" with a potential collapse imminent, citing overvalued companie…
A developer built FarmOps Desk, an AI-powered operations SaaS for smallholder livestock farms, and chose a Nigerian poultry and catfish farm as its first customer. Nigeria's dense poultry and catfish sectors, robust paym…
Kevin O'Leary has invested in Bitzero Holdings Inc., a Canadian data center company that builds sustainable facilities for Bitcoin mining and AI computing, as it begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AIBZ. The compan…
SpaceX is pursuing plans to become a direct-to-consumer mobile phone provider, leveraging its Starlink satellite network and recently acquired wireless spectrum from Echostar. The company has held talks with Charter Comm…
A prominent tech investor known for high-risk bets is wagering against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence vision, signaling skepticism about Musk's AI strategy. The move highlights growing divisions among tech leaders o…
A UBS report reveals Chinese AI models cost up to 50 times less than US counterparts, with prices as low as $2-$3 per million output tokens versus $15 for comparable US models. About 60% of companies are migrating worklo…
China's AI and robotics firms face a reality check as they pursue IPOs on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star Market, where public market pricing will test the premiums built during private funding rounds. The exchange ha…
SpaceX filed its S-1 IPO prospectus in May 2026, triggering a wave of tech listings. Anthropic and OpenAI confidentially filed their own draft prospectuses on June 1 and June 8, respectively, aiming for public debuts in …
SpaceX filed two trademark applications for 'SpaceXAI' with the USPTO in May 2026, covering satellite-based data centers, orbital computing, and AI software-as-a-service. The filings follow SpaceX's February acquisition …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's vision for orbital data centers, arguing they won't cut costs quickly enough to matter in the AI race. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, editors noted the irony of Son's ske…
Actor Jeff Bridges demonstrated Suno's AI music generator on Theo Von's podcast, creating a full song from prompts. The platform, which raised $400 million in Series D funding and has a licensing deal with Warner Music G…
Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, while Big Tech companies have already sold $159 billion in bonds in 2026, surpassing their total from 2020-2024. Fidelity advised clients to shift…
Napster has relaunched as an AI platform offering video-capable, persistent-memory agents that can serve as specialists, digital twins, and collaborative tools. The company released multiple products including the Napste…
Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly accused Sequoia Capital of using a 'dual-pricing' tactic in which the firm invests at two different valuations, allowing startups to announce a higher headline figure while Sequoi…
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valley media by blending …
Apple vice president Paul Meade, who led the Vision Pro headset and smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's hardware team. The departure follows John Ternus' impending promotion to Apple CEO and a restruct…
Multiverse Computing launched Pulsar 16B, an open-source reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture that achieves performance comparable to 30B-parameter models while using half the compute. The model, relea…
AI developers and donors have pledged $275 million toward political races, with AI companies and affiliated groups spending at least $83 million on federal elections in 2025 and tens of millions more on state-level campa…
Investor Michael Burry purchased long-dated call options on Microsoft, buying December 2028 LEAPs with strikes in the low $700s. Microsoft shares rose about 1% in pre-market trading after the disclosure. Burry also argue…