Vint Cerf: AI Will Repeat the Internet's Three Fatal Mistakes
The man who wrote the rules that let a billion networks talk to each other says AI is about to repeat the internet's mistakes, unless it learns from them first.
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Goldman Sachs analyst quits to automate Wall Street with $22M in backing
Wall Street's automation problem just got a $22 million bid from someone who lived it. LinqAlpha Inc., an AI investment research startup founded by a former Goldman Sachs analyst, is closing a $22 million Series A
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OpenAI and Musk Ordered to Private Settlement Talks
The courtroom became a conference room, which tells you everything about what this fight was really about. A judge ordered mediation between Elon Musk and Sam Altman to resolve the ongoing legal dispute over OpenAI's direction and governance
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Switch Bets $2B That AI Needs More Power, Not Smarter Code
The picks-and-shovels play just became a $2 billion bet that AI workloads will need more power, not better algorithms. Switch Inc., the data center operator, is raising ~$2 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz
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India's Meta Wannabe Needs $400M to Survive Its Own Hype
India's social media landscape is about to get its first real stress test of whether homegrown platforms can stand on their own without a continuous IV drip of venture capital. Mohalla Tech, parent company of ShareChat, Moj, and QuickTV, is planning a $400 million IPO in 2027
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Trump Owns More Crypto Than Most VCs Without Buying a Single Coin
The sitting president now holds more crypto than most venture funds, and almost none of it came from believing in the technology. Trump's crypto portfolio is worth $1.4 billion, primarily from his memecoin and World Liberty Financial, his family's crypto company
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SpaceX Board Member Just Cashed Out $100B—Now He's Betting It All on AI
When your SpaceX bet returns $100 billion, your next move defines whether you got lucky or you see something the rest of us don't. Antonio Gracias, early SpaceX board member, turned his venture bets into nearly $100 billion and is now hunting for the next frontier in AI, energy, and space
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AOL's New Owner Raises $1.7B Buying Apps Everyone Abandoned
Four Italian college friends just proved you can get rich buying what everyone else threw away. Bending Spoons raised $1.68 billion in its U.S. IPO, pricing at $29 per share above the marketed $26-$28 range
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Google Shipped More AI in June Than Most Companies Build All Year
Google just dropped a month's worth of AI updates in one blog post, which tells you everything about the pace we're moving at now. Google published its June 2026 AI update roundup, bundling multiple announcements into a single post
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Meta Just Became AWS's Biggest Threat After Burning $65 Billion on AI
The company that spent $65 billion building AI infrastructure for itself just decided to rent it to everyone else. Meta is launching a cloud computing business to sell excess AI compute capacity and model access, pivoting from pure consumer AI to infrastructure provider
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Anthropic's Chip Guy Now Controls Its Access to Washington
The quiet guy who finds the chips just became the guy who talks to the Commerce Department—and that might be the most important job in AI right now.
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Meta Invents New C-Suite Role to Stop Executive From Leaving
Meta just invented a C-suite role to keep a departing CMO in-house — and the job title tells you everything about where Big Tech is placing its bets. Meta promoted Denise Moreno to CMO as Alex Schultz moves to a newly created Chief Data Officer role — the company's first.
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US Flips AI Kill Switch on Claude, Then Reverses 48 Hours Later
The U.S. government just demonstrated it can flip the kill switch on AI models at any border, and enterprises are learning that cloud access doesn't mean guaranteed access.
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National Grid Drops $1.75B on AI Power—The Real Winner in Compute Wars Isn't Who You Think
The century-old British utility just wrote a $1.75 billion check for AI's energy problem, and it signals who really wins in the compute wars. National Grid invested $1.75 billion in Jouleant, a US AI power firm, marking one of the largest utility-to-AI infrastructure plays to date
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Square Turns ChatGPT Into a Storefront That Undercuts DoorDash by 97%
Square just turned ChatGPT and Claude into storefronts, charging pennies where DoorDash charges dollars.
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Meta Accidentally Built a Billion-Dollar Cloud Giant While Chasing AI
When you spend billions building AI infrastructure for yourself and realize you accidentally built a product for everyone else. Meta is launching a cloud business to sell AI compute and models, entering direct competition with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
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Taiwan Arrests Supermicro Employees for Smuggling AI Chips to China
The AI compute arms race just claimed its first prisoners—and they work for the company building the plumbing of the agent economy.
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Musk's Orbital Data Center Promise Faces One Problem: Physics
Musk's orbital data center promises have the same energy as his Full Self-Driving timeline — except this time the physics is even less forgiving.
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AI Is Eating Entry-Level Tech Jobs With No Replacement in Sight
The robots are eating the ladder we used to climb — and nobody's building a new one. Agentic AI is automating the junior-level security and IT work that traditionally trained experts, eliminating the apprenticeship loop that built institutional knowledge
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Google's $230 Smart Speaker Runs on an AI That Can't Handle Basic Tasks
Google finally ships new hardware for the smart home, but the AI that's supposed to justify it is still half-baked. Google launched its first new smart speaker in six years, the Google Home Speaker, marketed as "built for Gemini"
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