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 Vatican just picked a fight with Silicon Valley's most powerful CEO on the eve of the White House's biggest AI policy meeting, and what happens next will define who writes the rules for the agent economy.
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The most cautious voice in AI just had dinner with the man who thinks safety talk is for losers, and the collision tells you everything about who's actually steering the ship.
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The company building Claude just told potential investors it has no idea who pays when its AI breaks the law. Anthropic disclosed uncertain legal risks from rogue AI agents in its IPO prospectus, marking the first time a major AI lab has formally warned investors about agent liability exposure.
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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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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 migration from tenure to term sheets just hit critical mass — and it's happening faster than most university endowments realize.
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The institutions showed up, then hit the brakes, and now everyone's wondering if diversification is the new gospel or just the latest cope. US spot crypto ETF inflows dropped roughly 80% on Monday to $64.8 million, coming off a $3.3 billion week
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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 company that built the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush is now exporting the miners themselves. Nvidia robotics veterans are leaving to launch startups, spinning out companies that build on the physical AI infrastructure Nvidia created
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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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When a chip maker's contract with one AI lab hits $180 billion, you're not watching a normal market—you're watching the formation of financial infrastructure that will either power Web4 or collapse under its own weight.
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The company building ChatGPT's smartest rival just announced it will spend more on infrastructure in one year than most countries spend on everything. Anthropic plans to invest $518 billion in cloud and infrastructure in 2027, a scale of capital deployment unprecedented in private tech
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The Catholic Church just positioned itself as the moral brake pedal on the biggest hardware accelerator in AI.
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The trust collapse isn't coming from AI getting better at writing — it's from humans getting worse at telling the difference.
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Your AI assistant is about to notice your checking account pays 0.1% while treasuries yield 5%, and when a billion other agents notice the same thing on the same Tuesday morning, Wells Fargo has three days to find the cash.
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When Nvidia announces both a safety system for rogue agents and a stock buyback in the same breath, they're telling you exactly how serious the agent control problem has become.
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