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Alphabet Raises $84.75 Billion in Equity for AI Infrastructure
Google's parent company secures one of the largest corporate financing deals in history as tech giants race to build AI capabilities.
Meta Pulls AI-Generated News Feed After Questions Raised
The standalone Meta AI app briefly featured algorithmically generated clickbait articles with fabricated content and distorted images of public figures.
Broadcom CEO's AI Guidance Triggers Semiconductor Selloff
Unchanged full-year forecast and strong jobs data combined to end a nine-week market rally and revive Fed rate hike fears.
AI Chatbots Struggle to Identify Rare Mental Health Disorders
Large language models face significant challenges detecting uncommon conditions like intermittent explosive disorder, mirroring difficulties human clinicians encounter.
Apple's WWDC Siri Overhaul Tests Strategy to Bypass AI Capex Race
Investors watch whether Apple can deliver consumer AI experiences through software innovation rather than massive infrastructure spending.
Meta Explores Equity Raise to Fund AI Infrastructure Push
The social media giant is considering a stock offering worth tens of billions as Big Tech shifts toward external capital for AI investments.
Anthropic Warns AI Systems Nearing Recursive Self-Improvement
The Claude maker calls for industry coordination to slow frontier AI development as its own systems write most of their code.
Micron Certified for Nvidia HBM4 in Vera Rubin AI Platform
The memory maker joins Samsung and SK Hynix as validated suppliers for next-generation high-bandwidth memory in Nvidia's upcoming accelerator.
Copy-Pasting AI Output Erodes Work Meaning, Penn State Study Shows
Passive reliance on AI tools led to 20% drops in psychological ownership and lingering declines in worker confidence, new research finds.
AI Fake Image Detector Learns What's Real, Not What's Fake
Washington University researchers flip the script on deepfake detection with a model trained on authentic images that runs in under three minutes.
Pfizer Licenses Chai Discovery's AI Platform for Drug Design
The pharmaceutical giant gains access to generative models that cut antibody design failure rates in half and target previously unreachable molecules.
Meta Revives Discontinued Portal Devices as AI Development Kits
New agentic developer tools let owners repurpose the defunct smart displays into custom smart home controllers and more.
AI Slop Forces Brands to Rethink Trust and Visibility Online
Low-quality machine-generated content is eroding consumer confidence and reshaping how businesses compete for attention in digital channels.
Anthropic Warns AI Industry Needs 'Brake Pedal' for Self-Improving Systems
As models approach the ability to recursively improve themselves, the AI safety company calls for mechanisms to pause or slow frontier development.
Nvidia Certifies SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron for HBM4 Production
All three dominant memory chipmakers have received approval to mass-produce the latest high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators.
Tencent Hires Former OpenAI Researcher to Lead AGI Push in China
As Silicon Valley talent migrates to Chinese tech giants, Beijing's AI strategy shows signs of shifting toward ambitious long-term goals.
Amazon's $200B AI Bet Powers Hidden Chip Business
While Wall Street chases chipmaker rallies, Amazon quietly builds one of tech's fastest-growing silicon operations inside its cloud empire.
SpaceX Terafab Chip Factory Faces Local Resistance in Texas
Grimes County residents protest the $55 billion semiconductor facility, citing transparency concerns and environmental impact as AI infrastructure backlash spreads nationwide.
AI Drives Record May Job Cuts as Tech Sector Leads Layoffs
Artificial intelligence cited as primary reason for workforce reductions for third consecutive month, with 38,000 tech positions eliminated.
TSMC CEO Warns AI Chip Shortage Will Persist for Years
C.C. Wei says industrywide capacity constraints extend far beyond his company's ability to solve alone.
Broadcom's AI Chip Revenue Surges 143%, But Guidance Stays Flat
Strong Q2 results clash with unchanged long-term targets, triggering investor questions about AI growth trajectory.
Chai Discovery Signs Pfizer Deal, Eyes $3.4B Valuation
The 27-month-old AI drug discovery startup has now partnered with two of pharma's biggest players after its antibody design model drew industry-wide attention.
Inside Norway's Arctic AI Data Center: Nscale's $10B Bet
A British startup is building one of Europe's largest AI facilities above the Arctic Circle, racing to meet surging demand for computing power.
Bezos-Backed Flourish Raises $500M to Decode Brain Algorithms
The neuroscience startup aims to revolutionize AI by studying real neurons, reaching a $2.5 billion valuation in the process.
Chinese AI Startup Tops Nvidia on Global Robotics Benchmark
Spirit AI's foundation model for embodied intelligence claims first place on RoboArena leaderboard, signaling intensified competition in physical AI systems.
Cerebras Partners With All Major AI Hardware Vendors Except Nvidia
The AI chipmaker's CEO says the company is building relationships across the data center ecosystem following its Amazon deal.
Google Launches AI Edge Gallery for Mac with Gemma 4 12B Model
The new platform enables Mac users to run Google's AI models locally, including a powerful 12-billion-parameter model designed for consumer laptops.
TSMC CEO: Chip Supply Will Trail AI Demand for Years
Taiwan Semiconductor's chief executive projects sustained shortages despite new U.S. manufacturing capacity coming online.
Amazon Engineers Challenge AI Data Center Expansion Amid Layoffs
Seattle employees urge regulation as tech giants pour $700 billion into infrastructure while cutting tens of thousands of jobs.
SK hynix Hits $1 Trillion Valuation on Nvidia HBM4 Orders
The Korean memory maker is expanding fabrication capacity to meet surging demand for high-bandwidth memory in AI accelerators.
Teaching AI to Ask Better Questions Through Battleship Games
MIT and Harvard researchers used the classic guessing game to reveal—and fix—a critical weakness in language models.
Alphabet Upsizes Equity Raise to $84.75B for AI Infrastructure
Google's parent company increases offering by nearly $5 billion as investor demand signals confidence in big tech's AI buildout.
Big Tech AI Spending to Reach $5.3 Trillion by 2030
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet will invest more than the GDP of Japan in infrastructure over the next five years, Goldman Sachs projects.
NVIDIA Unveils Physical AI Agent Skills for Autonomous Vehicles
New automation tools aim to streamline fragmented workflows in robotics, AV development, and vision AI research.
Microsoft Unveils Seven In-House AI Models to Cut OpenAI Reliance
The MAI model family, led by a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model, aims to give Microsoft long-term self-sufficiency in AI infrastructure.
Microsoft Uses Agentic AI to Accelerate Quantum Computing
The company deploys autonomous AI agents across its Majorana 2 chip development to analyze research data, automate experiments, and identify engineering problems.