The PayPal mafia's latest move isn't another fintech app. It's teaching AI agents how to shop. Affirm CEO Max Levchin announced "agentic commerce" as the company's new strategic focus, targeting $100 billion in annual transaction volume
Continue reading ›
The GPU cartel just got its first credible challenger with real money behind it. SoftBank poured $450 million into Graphcore, the UK chip designer that's been trying to crack Nvidia's stranglehold on AI compute
Continue reading ›
The Bitcoin miners who survived the bear market are now powering the AI boom—turns out energy infrastructure doesn't care what you're computing.
Continue reading ›
Alibaba just proved you can miss your revenue target and still send your stock soaring—if you promise to triple AI sales while everyone else is still figuring out how to charge for it.
Continue reading ›
The UK just put $220 million where its mouth is on the bet that AI chip economics are fundamentally broken. Fractile, a UK AI chip startup, raised $220 million to manufacture its first processors designed specifically for AI workloads
Continue reading ›
Palmer Luckey's bet that Silicon Valley could build better war machines than Lockheed just became the most valuable defense startup in history. Anduril raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, doubling its worth in under a year, led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
Continue reading ›
Balaji Srinivasan is doing what he's always done: building parallel institutions where the old ones are too slow, except this time he's shopping for a host nation. Balaji Srinivasan pitched Malaysian officials on his crypto startup school project, seeking policy support to establish the program
Continue reading ›
Microsoft's professional network is running the same playbook as its parent: flatten the org chart, cut the headcount, tell the survivors AI will make up the difference.
Continue reading ›
Anthropic just figured out how to stop AI power users from draining their entire subscription business model — by inventing a two-tier credit system that makes "unlimited" mean two different things at once.
Continue reading ›
The jury about to decide OpenAI's fate just heard what happens when the world's richest man loses an argument about building God.
Continue reading ›
The password was buried in a decade of digital debris, and the human couldn't find it — but the AI could. A Bitcoin holder claims Claude AI recovered access to 5 BTC (worth ~$400K) locked in a wallet for 11 years after uploading old college files to the AI
Continue reading ›
The hardware giant that powered the internet's pipes is betting it can build the infrastructure for the agent economy—if it fires enough people first. Cisco announced thousands of job cuts alongside a better-than-expected sales forecast, framing the layoffs as a strategic pivot to AI infrastructure
Continue reading ›
The British government just said the quiet part out loud: programmable money isn't a threat to financial infrastructure, it's the replacement.
Continue reading ›
If Anthropic closes this deal, it becomes worth more than Meta, Tesla, or Berkshire Hathaway without ever shipping a consumer hit anyone outside tech Twitter talks about.
Continue reading ›
Meta just learned what happens when you deploy an AI agent that can't be blocked into a community already fighting bot spam. Meta is rolling out its AI agent to Threads, starting in five countries, allowing users to tag @meta.ai for "context, closure, or comedy" in conversations
Continue reading ›
While Nvidia prints money selling picks and shovels, Cerebras just bet $4.8 billion that the entire mine is designed wrong. Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share, targeting a $4.8 billion raise after upsizing the offering by one-third due to strong demand
Continue reading ›
The real story isn't that your fitness app got smarter — it's that it now has an opinion about your entire life.
Continue reading ›
The biggest bet in tech history just got a price tag, and it's larger than the GDP of most countries. Microsoft has spent over $100 billion on its OpenAI partnership, making it the largest single investment in AI infrastructure to date
Continue reading ›
The AI arms race just pivoted from Fortune 500 boardrooms to main street, and the battleground is invoice chasing. Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, a pre-built package of agentic workflows targeting 25-50 employee businesses with connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, and DocuSign.
Continue reading ›
White-glove wealth management is about to become a commodity service, and the democratization weapon is an API. Charles Schwab plans to deploy AI to extend premium wealth management services, historically reserved for high-net-worth clients, to less-affluent customers
Continue reading ›