While crypto worries about bear markets, traditional software companies face something worse: AI that writes their products for free. Ravi Tanuku, CEO of Kraken-backed KRAKacquisition Corp, argues crypto's bear cycle is trivial compared to AI's existential threat to software companies
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Google's putting $5 billion into Texas dirt for Anthropic the same week a judge said the feds can't touch them. Google is backing a $5 billion data center in Texas for Anthropic, partnering with lenders to finance the facility
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OpenAI just killed its video model after seven months because burning compute to make AI-generated videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti doesn't pay the bills. OpenAI scrapped Sora, its video-generation app, reversed ChatGPT video plans, and wound down a $1 billion Disney deal in a single day
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Ecolab just bet $4.75 billion that the AI boom is a head fake for something bigger: the permanent infrastructure shift underneath it. Ecolab closed a $4.75 billion data center cooling deal, betting demand persists even if AI buildout slows
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SoftBank just borrowed $40B from Wall Street's biggest banks with no collateral, and the repayment timeline tells you exactly when OpenAI is going public. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs extended a 12-month unsecured loan to SoftBank for $40 billion, one of the largest such facilities ever structured
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Bitcoin miners are selling their bitcoin to stop mining bitcoin. Public bitcoin miners spent $79,995 per coin last quarter while bitcoin trades at $70,000, making every coin mined a $10,000 loss before overhead.
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The AI boom is choking on its own success, and SK hynix just threw $14 billion at the problem. SK hynix is planning a US IPO that could raise $10-14 billion to build more high-bandwidth memory capacity for AI chips.
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Arm just stopped being Switzerland in the chip wars. Meta and OpenAI committed to buying Arm's first AI server chip, marking Arm's pivot from IP licensor to hardware manufacturer The CPU is designed to handle AI workloads more efficiently than GPUs, targeting data center infrastructure
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Meta's betting that the real AI glasses market isn't tech early adopters—it's the 164 million Americans who already wear glasses every day. Meta is launching two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week designed specifically for prescription lens wearers
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A 230-year-old Swiss industrial company just gave 650 employees AI assistants and cut knowledge work time in half. STADLER, a family-owned Swiss manufacturer, deployed ChatGPT across its entire workforce and is seeing 50% time savings on routine knowledge tasks
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Oracle's credit risk just hit an all-time high, and the reason tells you everything about who's going to survive the AI infrastructure build-out. Oracle's credit risk gauge closed at a record high Friday, signaling investor concern over the company's debt load as it races to build AI infrastructure
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Google is bankrolling the infrastructure for its biggest AI competitor, and that should tell you everything about where the compute wars are headed. Google is in talks to finance a multibillion-dollar Texas data center leased to Anthropic through construction loans to operator Nexus Data Centers
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The data center boom is cracking power grids and pissing off neighbors, and now the pushback is starting to win. Tech giants are scrambling to address backlash as AI data centers strain electrical grids, spike utility bills, and face community opposition across multiple states
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Someone just built a production AI agent that runs on a server cheaper than a Netflix subscription and uses IRC, a chat protocol from 1988. Developer George Larson deployed two AI agents on a $7/month VPS using IRC as the transport layer, with the public-facing binary weighing just 678 KB
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Microsoft just picked up a 900MW data center site in Texas that Oracle and OpenAI both passed on, and the story of why tells you everything about the infrastructure crunch in AI.
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Microsoft is having its worst quarter since 2008, and AI is both the poison and the cure. Microsoft stock is on track for its worst quarterly performance since the 2008 financial crisis, caught between two AI-driven market forces
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An 82-year-old Kentucky woman just did what most venture capitalists cannot: she said no to $26 million from an AI company that wanted her land for a data center.
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An 82-year-old woman in Kentucky just turned down $26 million from an AI company that wanted her land for a data center. An AI infrastructure company offered $26 million to an 82-year-old Kentucky landowner for a data center site. She declined.
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Armenia just became the newest front in the global AI infrastructure land grab, and it's not who you'd expect writing the check. Armenian banks formed their first-ever $300M syndicated loan to finance Firebird AI's data center construction
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SoftBank just borrowed more money than most countries see in a year to buy a piece of OpenAI. SoftBank secured a $40 billion bridge loan to finance its OpenAI stake, the largest such loan on record
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