Ian Lyall
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Claude paid subscriptions more than double as DoD feud and Super Bowl ads drive record sign-ups
Bluesky launches AI app Attie to let users build their own social feeds
The social network's former chief executive has built a standalone AI assistant powered by Anthropic's Claude.
Capybara: Anthropic's most powerful AI model revealed in data leak after CMS misconfiguration
A configuration error exposed draft documents revealing Anthropic's most powerful AI model and its unprecedented cybersecurity risks
Prediction markets give June SpaceX IPO a coin-flip chance as filing imminent
Elon Musk's rocket company could raise $75 billion in what would be the largest stock market debut in history.
Buyout firms are striking deals with Anthropic to push AI into thousands of companies they own
The exit market has been difficult for years. AI is the most credible margin story available, and fund managers are not inclined to hang about
The era of zero-click: Google is spending $185bn to break the thing it depends on
The company’s AI Overviews are destroying publisher traffic at the same time Google is betting its entire future on the content those publishers produce. Something has to give
In a zero-click world, the only content that survives is content AI cannot steal
Google's AI summaries have gutted evergreen publishing and informational content. What remains is a more demanding, more valuable form of journalism. Here is what it looks like, and whether it can actually pay
Apple turns 50 next week. Wall Street wants to know what it does with the next decade
The anniversary is a footnote. The real question is whether WWDC in June finally delivers the AI strategy Cupertino has been promising for two years
SpaceX is preparing to file for an IPO that could value it at $1.75 trillion
The Elon Musk space company is targeting a mid-June listing to raise $75 billion, with Wall Street already eyeing the bigger prize: a full merger with Tesla
Amazon's AI coding agent deleted its own production environment. Then things got considerably worse
Kiro, Amazon's internally-mandated AI tool, triggered a chain of outages that wiped out millions of orders — and the company kept finding humans to blame
AWS is deploying AI agents to do the jobs of staff it just laid off
Amazon Web Services is using artificial intelligence to automate sales and technical support functions after cutting headcount in those same teams, a sign that the "AI won't replace your job" line is getting harder to maintain
Microsoft freezes hiring in cloud and sales divisions as AI spending strains margins
The Windows maker has told managers to halt new recruitment across major business units, as tech giants across the board move to rein in costs ahead of a reckoning over artificial intelligence returns
Jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for engineering addiction in children
After six weeks of testimony and nine days of deliberations, a Los Angeles jury has delivered a verdict that the social media industry has spent years trying to prevent
Meta is cutting hundreds more jobs as Zuckerberg bets the company on AI
Reality Labs is taking another hit. So are sales and recruiting. The metaverse pivot that defined Meta's last chapter is being quietly dismantled to fund the next one
SpaceX may file for an IPO this week. At $1.5 trillion, it would be the biggest in history
Elon Musk's rocket company is closing in on a public debut that could make him the world's first trillionaire. The market has already made up its mind: Polymarket puts the odds of a 2025 listing at 91%
Amazon's AI agent sends software stocks to their worst quarter since 2008
AWS is building tools to replace the technical specialists it just finished laying off. The rest of the sector is now asking who's next
OpenAI to shut down Sora AI video service in surprise reversal
The closure comes months after Disney struck a three-year deal with OpenAI and pledged $1 billion to bring its characters to the platform
Five things to watch in tech this week
Apple's iOS 26.4 beta is imminent, RSAC lands in San Francisco, and the courts start shaping AI's legal future. Here is what matters from Monday
The week robots got real, Xbox got a reset, and Washington got involved
From Amazon's doorstep delivery bet to Nvidia's physical AI push, this was the week the robotics industry moved from warehouse floors to front doors. Oh, and the White House finally had something to say about all of it.
Amazon acquires River Robotics to put legged delivery bots on your doorstep
The e-commerce giant is betting that four-legged autonomous robots can work alongside human drivers, not replace them. Whether that promise holds is another matter