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