Robot Hands Just Learned to Feel Using 10,000 Hours of Touch Data
While everyone's training robot brains on YouTube videos, DAIMON just released 10,000 hours of what it feels like to actually touch things.
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Silicon Valley's Quietest Billionaire Just Raised $700M Betting Against IPOs
The smartest money in Silicon Valley just doubled down on patience as a strategy. 137 Ventures raised $700 million across two funds to back startups over longer time horizons, days before SpaceX's expected IPO
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Accenture and Adobe Drop $110M on AI That Replaces Customer Service Agents
Customer service agents—human and AI alike—are being measured the same way now: by cost per resolution. Netomi raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and Adobe Ventures, with backing from OpenAI's Greg Brockman, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman
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OpenAI Refuses to Sell Its Most Powerful AI to You
OpenAI just drew a line between the cyber offense and defense markets, and they're betting they can control which side of it you're on. OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a new frontier model designed for cybersecurity, but it won't be available to the public or even most enterprises.
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Claude Runs His Business. ChatGPT Keeps It Alive When Claude Goes Down.
The multi-model strategy isn't hedging anymore — it's the default position for businesses that can't afford downtime. Alex Cohen, CEO of Xander Marketing, now runs 80-90% of his business on Claude, with ChatGPT and Gemini splitting the remaining 10%
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Gen Z Uses AI Most and Trusts It Least
The kids are using the tools and resenting every keystroke. Gen Z leads AI adoption but also leads the backlash — they're the most frequent users and the most hostile critics simultaneously
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Microsoft Bet $190B on AI While Amazon's Cash Flow Collapsed 95%
Microsoft just outbid everyone at the AI capex table with a $190 billion bet, and Amazon's free cash flow collapsed 95% to make theirs. The competition isn't about who's winning. It's about who can afford to keep playing.
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Capacitor Maker Beats Estimates as AI Data Centers Burn Cash on Infrastructure
The AI boom just turned a Japanese capacitor maker into a bellwether for infrastructure spending. Murata Manufacturing beat Q4 profit estimates driven by AI data center demand, with shares jumping on the news
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OpenAI's $16B Data Center Just Locked 1.2M Michigan Families Into Its Bet
A utility just made 1.2 million Michigan households unwitting creditors in OpenAI's ability to hit its growth targets. DTE Energy promised to freeze power rates for two years if a $16B Oracle-OpenAI data center generates $300M in revenue, tying residential bills to AI infrastructure performance.
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Big Tech Burns Sweden's Entire GDP on AI in 12 Months
Seven hundred billion dollars is more than the GDP of Sweden—and it's all going into a bet that agents will eat the world before someone else's agents do. US Big Tech's combined 2026 capex is projected to hit $725 billion, overwhelmingly targeted at AI data center infrastructure
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Anthropic Seeks $900B Valuation Despite $2.7B Annual Loss
The company that lost $2.7 billion last year is now worth more than Walmart, Home Depot, and Boeing combined. Anthropic has received pre-emptive funding offers at $850B-$900B valuations, potentially raising $50B in new capital
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Stripe Just Built Payment Rails for AI Agents, Not Humans
The company that powers 90% of online checkout flows just decided AI agents need their own payment rails. Stripe announced new AI tools and a Google partnership targeting payments and commerce infrastructure for the agent economy
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Amazon Plans to Sell AI Chips Outside AWS for First Time
Amazon just told Wall Street it might start shipping AI chips to customers who aren't AWS users, which is roughly equivalent to Netflix announcing it's going to sell DVDs.
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OpenAI's AI Invented Its Own Personality Without Permission
OpenAI just published a postmortem on how their flagship model developed an unsanctioned personality, and the answer reveals more about the fragility of AI alignment than any research paper could.
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Anthropic Charged Developers $200 for Naming a File "HERMES.md
A harmless markdown file name just cost developers real money, and the company building the future of AI coding agents is playing dumb about the refund.
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Elon Musk Demands $150 Billion From OpenAI in Bombshell Testimony
The man building an AI company to compete with OpenAI just spent three hours on a witness stand explaining why he's entitled to $150 billion from OpenAI.
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AI's Biggest Cheerleader Admits the Code It Writes Is Gross
The man who named the future of coding just admitted it writes ugly code.
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China's Nvidia Alternative Just Posted 66% Revenue Growth While US Chips Sit Banned
While US chipmakers fight export controls, China's domestic AI chip industry just printed a Q1 that looks less like substitution and more like ignition. Cambricon Technologies' Q1 2025 revenue more than doubled year-over-year, driven by surging domestic AI chip demand in China
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White House Blocks Anthropic's Bid to Expand AI Access
The company that built its brand on AI safety just got told "no" by the government when it tried to open the gates wider. The White House is blocking Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos, an AI model the company itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks.
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Banks Rush to Fund SoftBank's $40B OpenAI Bet They Don't Believe In
The smart money isn't betting on OpenAI — it's betting on the willingness of other banks to bet on SoftBank betting on OpenAI. SoftBank secured a $40 billion bridge loan to fund its OpenAI investment, now syndicating to additional lenders
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