In a move that could reshape how publishers deal with AI-powered search, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed a new conduct rule on Google requiring the company to give website owners meaningful control over whether their content…
Hyperscalers are entering a familiar phase of the technology cycle—except this time the pressure is coming from two directions at once. On one side, demand for cloud capacity and AI compute continues to expand faster than most traditional infrastructure planning…
AI has a way of arriving in public life like weather: first as a forecast, then as a storm of headlines, and only later—if you’re lucky—as something you can actually measure. For many people the question isn’t “what can it…
Industry leaders are beginning to talk about a future that sounds almost like science fiction, but is increasingly treated as an engineering roadmap: “recursive self-improvement.” In this vision, an AI system doesn’t just answer questions or generate code—it helps design…
The AI boom is doing something that the tech industry hasn’t seen in a long time: it’s giving familiar, older enterprise IT brands a second act—one that doesn’t rely on nostalgia, but on relevance. For investors, the excitement is straightforward…
Alexandr Wang’s fingerprints are increasingly visible in Meta’s latest attempt to reassert itself as a serious force in frontier AI. The effort centers on Muse Spark, a model that has already generated enough internal and external buzz to be treated…
Meta’s AI push is back in the spotlight, and not because it’s subtle. The company is widely described as preparing a roughly $100 billion-scale commitment to artificial intelligence—an amount large enough to sound less like a strategy and more like…
Cyera is reportedly in the final stretch of a major fundraising effort that, if it closes on the terms being discussed, would put the company’s valuation in the neighborhood of $12 billion—despite the fact that it is still operating at…
Markets have a way of turning even the most abstract number into a story investors can feel in their bones. This week’s chatter—centred on a reported $675bn in tech stock exposure being marketed as “more equity” for hungry investors—has done…
President Trump has signed a revised directive on artificial intelligence vetting, a move that comes after days of internal debate within his political coalition and a series of competing drafts that reportedly reflected sharply different views on how quickly the…
Newly published documents suggest that Kyle—an adviser and public-facing voice in the UK’s fast-moving AI policy ecosystem—adjusted the language used in an AI-related speech after receiving guidance from Peter Mandelson. The change, described in the materials as “more positive language,”…
Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off with the kind of keynote that feels less like a traditional software showcase and more like a coordinated push toward a new computing default: AI that’s always ready, developer workflows that assume local execution is…