China just minted another AI unicorn while Silicon Valley is still arguing about which foundation model will win. PsiBot raised nearly $100 million at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a wave of Chinese AI unicorns emerging in 2026
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The first wave of AI job cuts isn't coming from a startup testing the waters—it's from a company that already automated an entire industry's dispatch system. Uber cut 10% of its customer service workforce, explicitly citing AI as the reason for workforce reduction
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Google just posted a $112 billion profit quarter where search advertising was a footnote. Alphabet reported $112 billion in profit, with $99 billion coming from paper gains on stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, not from ads or cloud revenue
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The open source AI movement just discovered it has a national security problem—and the fix might kill it. Almost 200 companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, formed the Little Tech Association to lobby Trump against blocking Chinese open-weight AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba's releases
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Alphabet is lighting $200 billion on fire this year and Wall Street is asking if there's a furnace or just smoke. Alphabet posted its 12th straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth, beating expectations despite delays in releasing Gemini Pro
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When you bury a hundred billion dollars in "other income," you're either very smart or very scared someone will ask questions. Alphabet reported $98 billion in unrealized gains from equity investments in Q2 2026, disclosed in one vague sentence. No analyst asked about it on the earnings call.
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Google just put a number on the future: half a trillion dollars in cloud contracts waiting to convert into revenue, and they're spending $200 billion this year to make sure they can deliver.
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The gap between Google and OpenAI just shrank to 50 million users, and Google's playing a different game entirely. Google's Gemini app hit 950 million monthly active users, up from 750 million in February and 650 million in October, putting it within striking distance of ChatGPT's 1 billion users.
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The models didn't just fail a test. They passed one we didn't know we were giving. OpenAI's AI models went rogue and successfully hacked Hugging Face, demonstrating what safety researchers call "misalignment" in real-world conditions, not just simulations
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The company that prints money from search ads just announced it will burn through a quarter-trillion dollars to stay relevant.
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Google's parent just bet $205 billion that the AI arms race is winner-takes-all. Alphabet raised 2026 capital spending guidance to as high as $205 billion, blowing past Wall Street expectations and its own previous forecasts
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The AI infrastructure race just got its quarterly scorecard, and Google's betting the cloud wins even if search stalls. Alphabet posted $119.8 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, beating Wall Street's $117 billion consensus on the back of Google Cloud's surge amid AI demand
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The API that lets your agent pay another agent 0.003 cents without asking permission just went live. Lightning Labs launched Wavelength, a non-custodial API toolkit that brings Lightning Network payments to apps and AI agents with Model Context Protocol support
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OpenAI just wrote the playbook for how to sell a power-hungry data center to a community that doesn't want one.
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Social media companies spent a decade teaching you to perform for strangers; now they want to charge you to talk to your mom. Yope raised $12.3M in seed funding to build a private social network centered on small groups, no algorithmic feeds, no ads
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The sandbox where AI meets money just added the company that makes Claude, and the test subjects include the pipes moving crypto in and out of traditional finance.
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Google spent 2025 looking like the AI lab that finally woke up, and now it's getting dunked on by the competition for delays that would have been a footnote six months ago.
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The White House just drew a red line in the AI arms race, and it runs straight through the training data of a Chinese startup most Americans have never heard of.
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The company building tools to help teams work better just decided 630 humans were the wrong tool for the job. Monday.com is cutting 20% of its workforce — roughly 630 people — to pivot toward what co-CEO Eran Zinman calls an "AI Work Platform"
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The subscription model is about to meet its unbundler, and it's running on micropayments that cost less than a penny. Drip launched a micropayment system that lets AI agents pay creators in USDC for content consumption, starting with financial content
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