It’s earnings season, and for investors who have been trying to price in the “AI boom” as a story about future profits, Google just delivered a reminder that the present still has bills. According to reporting tied to Google’s latest…
The debate over how the United States should regulate and encourage artificial intelligence has often been framed as a choice between two extremes: tightly controlled, closed systems on one side, and fully open research on the other. But the more…
The U.S. power grid is entering a new phase of stress—one that doesn’t always look like the classic blackout story people remember from past decades. Instead of a single catastrophic failure, the risk increasingly comes from the grid being pushed…
Fish Audio has raised a $50 million seed round to accelerate what it’s building in AI voice: models designed to let creators and enterprises generate speech that sounds natural, expressive, and—crucially—usable at scale. The company’s pitch is not just “better…
Recursive Superintelligence has reportedly secured what may be its biggest funding milestone yet: a $400 million outlay that, according to the reporting, represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date. But the story isn’t just about money changing hands.…
Perplexity has taken a major step in the race to make AI feel less like a conversation and more like a coworker. With the launch of Personal Computer for Windows, the company is extending its agentic “Personal Computer” experience—previously available…
Smart rings have always lived in the shadow of smarter watches. They’re smaller, subtler, and—at least on paper—more likely to be worn all day without feeling like you’re strapping a computer to your wrist. But for a long time, that…
A new report from the European nonprofit AI Forensics is reigniting a debate that has been simmering since the first wave of open-source generative AI: what happens when powerful image-editing models are made widely available, but safety controls are inconsistent—or…
Asia’s latest risk-off turn has a familiar face: investors are once again pulling back from the AI trade, and this time the pressure is showing up most clearly in South Korea’s tech complex. The Kospi—long a proxy for the region’s…
Quant trading and software engineering share a surface-level resemblance: both rely on code, data pipelines, automation, and the promise that “better systems” will compound results. But the analogy breaks in a crucial place—where value comes from. In software, scaling often…
Cursor is stepping up its India strategy in a way that signals more than just “more users in more places.” The company says India is now its third-largest market globally, and it’s using that momentum to build a deeper local…
Nvidia’s latest move in Texas is less about a single data centre and more about how the company intends to shape the economics of AI computing itself. According to the report, Nvidia is backing a roughly $50bn leasing arrangement tied…