Oracle’s recent round of layoffs has triggered more than the usual scramble for new jobs and unemployment benefits. According to multiple accounts shared by affected workers, some employees tried to negotiate for better severance after learning they might not qualify…
Intel’s comeback story has always been a mix of ambition and skepticism. For years, the company has been trying to claw back relevance in a market that doesn’t wait for anyone—especially not in semiconductors, where product cycles are unforgiving and…
AI data centers have always been the quiet engine behind modern computing. But in 2026, they’re no longer staying in the background. They’ve moved into the center of public debate—right alongside power bills, grid reliability, local politics, and environmental tradeoffs.…
Cloudflare has confirmed what many workers and industry watchers have been anticipating for months: AI isn’t only changing how companies build products—it’s also reshaping how they staff the business. In its first large-scale layoff, the company said it is eliminating…
Sony’s latest earnings presentation didn’t just mention AI in passing—it laid out a fairly specific philosophy for how PlayStation studios should use it, and just as importantly, what they should not use it for. In a moment when generative AI…
The enterprise AI gold rush is no longer just about model releases, benchmarks, or flashy demos. Over the past week, the signals coming from major players have been more strategic—and more telling. Anthropic and OpenAI announced new joint ventures aimed…
Court documents emerging from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial are offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how Microsoft executives thought about their early relationship with OpenAI—and, crucially, what they feared could go wrong. Long before today’s familiar story of…
Chris Hohn’s TCI Fund Management has dramatically reduced its exposure to Microsoft, cutting its stake from roughly 10% to about 1%—a move that, while framed as a portfolio decision, reads like a warning shot aimed at the market’s comfort with…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is fast approaching, and with it comes the familiar scramble: founders trying to line up meetings, teams mapping out which sessions are worth the travel time, and investors looking for the signal inside a sea of announcements.…
In the AI industry, leadership transitions are supposed to be the calm part of the story. Boards plan them, executives rehearse them, and investors are given a narrative that feels inevitable in hindsight: a successor is identified, a handoff is…
AI companies love to talk about “automation” as if it’s a clean switch: flip it, and the work disappears. In practice, adoption rarely feels like that. It feels like a backlog you can’t see until it becomes urgent, a chain…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative add-on in finance. It is showing up in customer service queues, fraud models, credit decisioning, trading research, compliance monitoring and even internal “copilot” tools that draft emails and summarize documents. Yet the more…