Incisive reporting on artificial intelligence, computing, startups, cybersecurity and the regulation defining the industry.
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C led by Saudi Aramco Ventures at an $8.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in sixteen months as enterprises shift AI workloads to cheaper open-source models.
Peter Stokes, 19, a dual US-Estonian citizen and alleged Scattered Spider member, appeared in Chicago federal court after his extradition from Finland to face charges tied to an $8 million cryptocurrency ransom demand.
Anthropic switched its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models back on July 1, 2026, ending an 18-day export-control blackout that the Commerce Department imposed after Amazon researchers surfaced a dangerous jailbreak.
Alphabet lost its final appeal on July 2, 2026, when the Court of Justice of the European Union permanently upheld a €4.1 billion Android antitrust penalty, closing an eight year fight and clearing the way for rival damages claims.
Microsoft Frontier Company debuts as a $2.5 billion unit embedding 6,000 engineers inside customers like London Stock Exchange Group and Novo Nordisk, escalating a forward-deployed-engineering race against Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
GPT-5.6, OpenAI's new Sol, Terra, and Luna model family, reached only about 20 government-vetted partners on June 26, 2026, after a Trump executive order forced a federal safety review that CEO Sam Altman called bad news.
Sam Altman has pitched the Trump administration on an OpenAI 5% government stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, routed into an Alaska-style public wealth fund so ordinary Americans can share in the industry's soaring valuations.
Siri AI, unveiled at WWDC on June 8, 2026, sends its hardest queries to a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini model running on Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs, under a reported $1 billion per year licensing arrangement.
Meta Platforms is building "Meta Compute," a cloud business to sell excess AI power and hosted models like Muse Spark, a Bloomberg report revealed, sending shares up nearly 10 percent and rattling CoreWeave and Nebius.
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Fidelity Investments will require roughly 6,200 Boston employees and more than 15,000 staffers in three other states to work in office five days a week starting September 2026, ending its hybrid policy entirely.
Qualcomm will acquire AI software startup Modular in a nearly $4 billion all-stock deal, pairing a hardware-agnostic software layer with a new Dragonfly data center strategy aimed squarely at Nvidia's CUDA moat.
$20,000 is the new annual ceiling on federal Parent PLUS borrowing as of July 1, 2026, replacing decades of uncapped loans and leaving families to bridge the gap on college bills that now average more than $38,000 a year.
