Google is raising $80 billion to bankroll its AI buildout
Berkshire Hathaway is putting in $10 billion through a private placement, with the rest coming from underwritten offerings and an at-the-market program
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Anthropic files for an IPO that could make history
The filing comes as Anthropic, which makes the increasingly popular Claude AI chatbot, has seen a surge in demand for its AI products
Anthropic is giving the E.U.’s cybersecurity agency access to its restricted AI security model
ENISA will join Project Glasswing, Anthropic's program for testing the powerful vulnerability-finding model before a wider release
Nvidia and TSMC are bringing AI inside chip factories
The two companies are using Nvidia's accelerated computing tools across lithography, defect inspection, and factory scheduling
Nvidia is jumping into Windows laptops with a new AI chip built alongside Microsoft
The RTX Spark pairs a Blackwell GPU with an Arm-based CPU and up to 128GB of memory, targeting creators, AI developers, and gamers
SoftBank is committing billions to build AI data centers in France
The Japanese investment giant plans to develop 5 GW of AI data center capacity, with an initial phase focused on the Hauts-de-France region
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Anthropic passes OpenAI to become the biggest AI startup in the world
Anthropic also unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its Opus class of models with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work
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Anthropic is upgrading its flagship AI model and says a more powerful one is coming soon
Claude Opus 4.8 brings improvements in coding and honesty, while Anthropic says Mythos-class models could reach all customers within weeks
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Marvell stock surges as AI chip demand drives record revenue and a raised outlook
The chipmaker posted record quarterly revenue of $2.42 billion and guided for $2.70 billion next quarter, citing exceptional AI-related bookings
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Meta launches paid tiers for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp — with AI subscriptions coming
The social media giant is also testing AI subscription tiers under a new brand, Meta One, priced at $7.99 and $19.99 per month
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The legal fight over who owns the data platforms collect about you
Privacy laws give users certain rights over their data, but no jurisdiction has granted them actual ownership of it
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AI training data is becoming a seller’s market. Here’s what it’s worth
From Reddit's $60 million API deal to personal data worth "a few dollars," the new economics of AI training data are taking shape
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Corporate America’s new data gold rush
AI’s next breakthrough won’t come from scraping the web. Companies are racing to unlock new training data, from personal data to drones and corporate archives
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Why your company’s stored data probably isn’t ready for AI
Most AI initiatives fail not because the models are wrong but because the data beneath them was never prepared for the job
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Why Google Earth can’t train the AI models that robots need
The best commercial satellites capture 30 cm per pixel. The AI models powering robots and AR need detail 10 times finer than that.
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Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are backing a new clean-tech push for AI data centers
Nonprofit investor Elemental Impact will deploy up to $5 million per project in as many as 10 startups through 2027
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YouTube is starting to automatically label AI-generated videos without creator input
The platform will apply labels when its systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, even if creators don't disclose it
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The AI data center race is getting way more complicated
Adjustments by Amazon and Microsoft reflect harsh realities: power grids that take years to expand, land speculators inflating prices, and overwhelmed utilities
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Amazon is licensing its AI shopping technology to other retailers through AWS
The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages the architecture behind Alexa for Shopping, and Kate Spade has already deployed it
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Qualcomm is landing ByteDance as a customer for its new AI data center chips
ByteDance is set to procure millions of Qualcomm ASICs to support its AI agent software, marking a major push into AI infrastructure
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Uber’s COO says the company’s AI spending is getting harder to justify
Andrew Macdonald said rising token costs from Claude Code aren't translating into more consumer features, while the company has already burned through its 2026 AI budget
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Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day to train AI models
Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, former SoftBank fund managers, founded Wall Street Prompt in July 2025 and are already booked two months out
Music
Jack Osbourne Responds to Backlash Over AI-Powered Digital Avatar of Ozzy Osbourne
"It’s not gonna be f—king lame," Jack said during a livestream.
Movie News
Hollywood Ghosts the Croisette, Queer Cinema Owns It and AI Crashes the Party: Five Takeaways From Cannes 2026
Quiet on the surface, Cannes 2026 exposed the fault lines reshaping cinema — from the evolving indie ecosystem and the studios’ festival retreat to the industry’s uneasy embrace of AI.