SpaceX is once again putting the capital markets in the spotlight, with fresh reports suggesting the company has been pitching investors a valuation of around $1.8 trillion as it explores an IPO. At the same time, a separate “Rocket and…
SpaceX has cleared a major hurdle in its push to build the Terafab AI chip plant in Texas, winning a tax exemption package valued at roughly $55 billion—an outcome that comes as residents in the surrounding county have escalated their…
Meta is quietly but decisively shifting its center of gravity toward a future where messaging apps do more than connect people. In the latest push, the company is placing growing bets on AI agents—systems that can take actions, not just…
Google has introduced Dreambeans, a new AI feature that takes the familiar idea of “personalization” and pushes it into a more whimsical, visual format: cartoon-style stories generated from the personal data already associated with your Google account. The pitch is…
This week’s hands-on reports about Google’s Gemini AI agent, “Spark,” landed with a particular kind of unease—one that doesn’t come from the usual worries about hallucinations or unreliable answers. Instead, the discomfort is tied to something more intimate: Spark appears…
A UK MP has launched what is being framed as a “test case” against xAI, challenging whether the makers of AI systems can be held responsible for harmful outputs—particularly when those outputs are sexual images that appear to be fake.…
Amazon has quietly added a new twist to online shopping: instead of only searching for products that already exist in its catalog, its search experience can now surface AI-generated “product images” based on what you type. The change is subtle…
Amazon is quietly changing what “search” means in online shopping. Instead of treating a query as a purely text-based request that must be translated into product listings, the retailer is adding a new visual layer: AI-generated product images that appear…
Meta is quietly but decisively repositioning WhatsApp from a messaging app into something closer to an always-on service layer for everyday life—and the lever it’s pulling is AI agents. In recent moves across its broader AI push, Meta has signaled…
Alphabet, the parent of Google, has moved to the front of the global capital markets again—this time not with a familiar buyback or a routine debt sale, but with an equity offering on a scale rarely seen in modern mega-cap…
Two founders who previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Meta have set out to solve a problem that rarely makes it into the glossy demos of voice AI: what happens when you try to deploy real-time communication technology in places…
In a move that signals how quickly AI search is becoming a regulated part of the internet’s infrastructure, U.K. regulators are requiring Google to provide website publishers with a practical way to opt out of generative AI search experiences. The…