Google concedes it needs partners to sustain AI development costs while its new agent launches with mixed results. Meta faces security issues after AI support bots compromised high-profile accounts. OpenAI commits billions to Michigan infrastructure and strikes an exclusive AWS cloud partnership, re
Travis Wright covers banks turning on their own stablecoin legislation, Alphabet's massive European borrowing spree for AI dominance, and Google researchers forming a union to protest military AI contracts. Big money moves and workplace rebellion collide in today's tech
The compromise that was supposed to get stablecoins regulated in America just united banks in opposition — which tells you everything about who actually controls the rails.
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Google's parent company is borrowing billions in euros to fund the AI arms race — but the real story is who's winning the race to finance the future. Alphabet launched a six-tranche euro bond offering months after raising nearly $32 billion across dollar, sterling, and Swiss franc markets
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The people building the world's most advanced AI just decided they need collective bargaining rights to control what it does. Google DeepMind workers in the UK voted to unionize, requesting joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union
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The people building AGI just admitted their machines are already doing most of their work. AI coding tools now write 80% of OpenAI's code, according to co-founder Greg Brockman, marking a fundamental shift in how the world's leading AI lab builds AI.
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Congress is about to do something it almost never does for crypto: give it a legal definition that doesn't involve the word "security." Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott says the CLARITY Act is "in the red zone" and expects it to reach the President's desk this summer, with markup scheduled for May
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A turnaround shop is betting half its business on AI by 2028 — which means corporate breakdowns are about to look very different. Alvarez & Marsal aims to pull 50% of revenue from AI work by 2028, translating to roughly $3.5 billion
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The miners came for cheap Texas power, stayed for AI demand, and now the neighbors are lawyering up. Texas residents filed a lawsuit against MARA Holdings over noise from its Granbury Bitcoin mining facility, as the company pivots mining infrastructure toward AI services
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The Big Four just placed their bet on who owns enterprise AI deployment—and it's not the consultants. OpenAI and PwC are partnering to deploy AI agents across enterprise finance functions—automating workflows, forecasting, and controls at CFO-level operations.
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When the Pentagon and the White House can't agree on whether an AI model is safe to deploy, you're watching the invention of a new regulatory regime in real time.
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A bank-backed venture arm just became the first external shareholder of a crypto market maker that already owned a piece of one of its portfolio companies.
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The smart money isn't betting on AI models anymore — it's betting on the concrete and copper that keeps them running.
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The biggest tech companies are now choosing between people and GPUs, and the GPUs are winning by a landslide.
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The non-profit that built the world's most valuable AI model is becoming a for-profit, and its president just disclosed he'll personally pocket $30 billion in the process.
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The world's biggest AI arms dealer just made $46 billion while everyone was watching ChatGPT. Google owns 14% of Anthropic — worth roughly $53 billion on Anthropic's latest $380 billion valuation — after investing just over $4 billion total
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The IPO machinery just got ported to the blockchain, and it happened through regulatory approval, not a hack around it.
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Google just made it cheaper to let AI agents work overnight without babysitting the process every thirty seconds. Google launched event-driven webhooks for the Gemini API, replacing polling loops with push notifications for long-running jobs
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The gap between "AI can talk" and "AI can hold a conversation without lag" just got technical specs. OpenAI rebuilt its entire WebRTC infrastructure to power real-time voice AI that handles conversational turn-taking at global scale with sub-second latency
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Tech giants unleash $43 billion in coordinated AI infrastructure spending as Meta finances a $13 billion data center while ServiceNow commits $30 billion to enterprise transformation. OpenAI faces existential legal threats from Musk targeting its $150 billion IPO. Meanwhile open source developers re
The Department of Defense just told the AI safety movement exactly what it thinks of red lines: find someone else to draw them.
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