The privacy coin everyone wrote off just got a $33 million institutional vote of confidence, and one company now controls enough hashrate to make decentralization purists very uncomfortable.
Continue reading ›
The browser that killed the pop-up is now betting it can make AI opt-in cool. Mozilla is launching Smart Window, an AI chat interface for Firefox that only activates if users explicitly opt in, powered by AI search provider Exa
Continue reading ›
Harvey just declared independence from its AI landlords — and every other vertical SaaS company paying per-token rent is watching.
Continue reading ›
The internet ran dry, so now they're strip-mining bankruptcy courts. Google outbid AI training startup Mercor ($7.5M) to pay $10M for Spirit Airlines' internal data and custom software — customer records and credit card info explicitly excluded
Continue reading ›
The old playbook still works: promise returns, lose money trading, spend what's left on yourself, then flee the country when it collapses.
Continue reading ›
The company that built the payment rails for SaaS is now buying the company that routes AI requests—because machines don't pay with credit cards. Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for somewhere between $7B and $10B, depending on which report you trust—either way, it's Stripe's largest acquisition ever
Continue reading ›
Google just turned football fans into data analysts with a smartphone and a chatbot. Google partnered with five major football clubs to integrate Gemini AI into the matchday experience via Pixel phones
Continue reading ›
The weather business is about to get eaten by balloons and transformers, and the insurance industry is watching very closely. WindBorne Systems raised $37M Series B to scale weather balloon deployments and AI-powered forecasting models
Continue reading ›
The race to the bottom on pricing just met the race to the top on performance, and the numbers say you get what you pay for.
Continue reading ›
The EU just forced AI companies to watermark their output, and the watermark remover already exists as a one-click web app. Anthropic plans to watermark all Claude-generated text to comply with new EU regulation, but the marks are trivially removable through simple rewriting
Continue reading ›
The miners who spent billions building data centers to guess random numbers just realized they can rent those same racks to companies trying to build God.
Continue reading ›
Amazon just proved that AI agents can burn cash faster than you can audit them. Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million over five months on a Claude AI project that ran undetected, exposing a fundamental gap in enterprise AI cost controls
Continue reading ›
When the guy who co-founded the company says he was wrong to bet against it, the market listens — and reprices everything. Elon Musk publicly admitted he was "clearly wrong" about Anthropic, a stunning reversal from a founder who helped start the company before leaving in 2018
Continue reading ›
SpaceX just paid more for a coding assistant than most countries' GDP, then immediately absorbed a team that builds agents to debug other agents. SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60B and integrated it into SpaceXAI, marking one of the largest AI acquisitions in history
Continue reading ›
S&P inclusion matters more than product-market fit now, apparently. Reddit joins the S&P 500, stock climbs on index inclusion news despite no fundamental business change Gemini Space Station reports wider-than-expected EBITDA loss, stock falls as crypto platform hits market headwinds
Continue reading ›
The race to build useful AI agents just split into two markets: one where quality costs extra, and one where speed is nearly free. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash publicly while OpenAI kept GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast invite-only, signaling different strategies for capturing the agent market
Continue reading ›
Three of AI's heaviest hitters just pooled $100 million to bet against the consensus — and their target list reads like a map of where human work is about to get replaced.
Continue reading ›
The sparkle is optional now, but the fingerprint stays forever. Google now lets users toggle off visible watermarks on AI-generated images, videos, and music from Gemini and Flow, its new video generator
Continue reading ›
The model race is over before most people realized it started, and the winners are now scrambling to fix the one thing they can't brute-force with compute. Anthropic reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for $6 billion, signaling a strategic pivot in the foundation model race
Continue reading ›
The Winklevoss twins are burning through nine figures a year to prove crypto exchanges can be public companies, and the market just told them it's not buying it yet. Gemini shares dropped 7% to $4.00 after reporting a Q2 net loss of $107.7 million, despite revenue climbing 37% to $45.5 million
Continue reading ›