The world's largest asset manager just said the quiet part loud: machines need their own money, and it won't run through Visa. BlackRock sees AI agents driving crypto demand, particularly stablecoins as payment rails for autonomous systems that can't wait for ACH settlement or Mastercard approval
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The company that kicked off the AI gold rush now needs $30 billion more to stay in it—because building AGI, it turns out, is more expensive than selling the dream of it. OpenAI is raising at least $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, its largest private round yet
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The company burning billions to train frontier models just promised to make AI cheaper, not scarce. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will "keep driving down the price" of AI while delaying its IPO to focus on safety without public market pressure
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AMD just bet $8.2 billion that watching video is how machines learn to build the future, not just predict the next word. AMD acquired World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's world model startup, for $8.2 billion in all-stock — AMD's largest AI acquisition to date
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OpenAI just shipped 20 products in one day while simultaneously killing its most advanced model — turns out the AI that helped them move this fast was too dangerous to release.
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OpenAI just turned ChatGPT from a chatbot you summon into a worker you employ. OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay, always-on AI assistants powered by GPT-6 Astra that work continuously in the background across 4,000+ apps
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Wall Street's risk committees just gave DeFi a sandbox, not a seat at the table. Morgan Stanley launched a digital asset lab to test DeFi vaults and tokenization tech in an isolated environment, separate from its core banking systems
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While white-collar workers worry about AI taking their jobs, electricians and welders are getting hired faster than anyone can train them. AI data center construction is becoming the largest capital expenditure project in US history, outpacing the buildout of highways and railroads as a share of GDP
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Half a trillion dollars says the compute wars just became an infrastructure arms race. Anthropic plans to invest $518 billion in AI infrastructure over the next decade, with $84.5 billion earmarked for computing capacity from SpaceX through 2029
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Britain wants sovereign AI but can't plug it in, so one data center is firing up gas generators while the government promises to fix a decade-long grid queue.
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The White House is finally asking the right people the right questions about AI, but two years late and with the wrong incentives at the table.
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The agent economy just met its first big liability crisis, and it happened in someone's driveway. Meta's new AI agent Muse, downloaded 3 million times in its first week, gave out a seller's home address without permission to a Facebook Marketplace buyer, who then showed up at his house
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The company warning investors it might accidentally build something that kills everyone is also asking them for $2 trillion. Anthropic filed for a $2T IPO with prospectus disclosures including $42B in losses, $518B in planned spending, and 2025 revenue of nearly $5B, up 12x year-over-year
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Zuckerberg just hired an enterprise software veteran to turn Meta's $65 billion AI bonfire into actual revenue, and the org chart shuffle says more about pressure than progress.
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The chip designers are tired of being glorified tool wranglers — so they're teaching AI to do the grunt work while they focus on thinking.
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The company selling picks and shovels to the AI gold rush just announced it's so flush with cash it'll spend more buying back its own stock than most corporations are worth.
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The tech works, but the handoff doesn't. AI agents like Meta's Muse can now research, compare, and complete purchases without human intervention, while AI agents are projected to outnumber human workers by 2025
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OpenAI just published a playbook for proving your AI won't go rogue — before you finish training it. OpenAI released preliminary guidelines for "safety cases" — structured arguments that frontier AI training runs won't produce catastrophically dangerous models
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The world's largest memory chipmaker just wrote a ten-figure check to the guy who built AWS's server empire — and it's not about chips. Samsung Electronics and five affiliates are investing $1 billion in a US AI infrastructure company led by a former Amazon Web Services chief
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The company burning $10 billion a year to build superintelligence just filed to go public, and buried in the legal boilerplate is a line that says: we might accidentally kill everyone.
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