Technology
Meta's Muse Spark Closes the Door on Open Source
Meta's new AI model, built by Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs, ships closed-source. The $14.3 billion bet just changed Meta's identity.
Shaw Beckett·
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
71,000 Tech Jobs Gone in Q1: The Real Story Behind AI Layoffs
Companies are cutting workers over AI's potential, not its performance. Only 2% of layoffs are based on actual automation results.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Oracle Cut 30,000 Workers With a 6 AM Email. The Money Goes Straight to AI Data Centers.
The largest layoff in Oracle's history is funding a $156 billion AI buildout, and employees found out through a pre-dawn mass email with no warning.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
OpenAI Killed Sora. Six Months, $2.1 Million, and a Dead Disney Deal.
OpenAI shut down its viral AI video app after downloads cratered 67%, revenue flatlined at $2.1 million, and Disney walked away from a $1 billion deal.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
The First Robot to Walk the White House Said Hello in 11 Languages
Figure 03, a humanoid built by Figure AI, walked the White House Cross Hall and greeted leaders from 45 nations at Melania Trump's AI education summit.
Shaw Beckett·
Business
CFOs Quietly Admit AI Will Cut 9 Times More Jobs This Year
A major survey of 750 CFOs reveals AI-related job losses could hit 502,000 in 2026, up from 55,000 last year, but the reality is more nuanced than the headline.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
NVIDIA GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Unveils a $1 Trillion AI Chip Pipeline
From a trillion dollars in chip orders to autonomous Uber fleets in 28 cities, NVIDIA's annual conference made clear the AI hardware race has entered a new phase.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Apple Taps Google's Gemini to Power a Completely Rebuilt Siri
Apple is paying Google roughly $1 billion annually to use Gemini for an AI-powered Siri coming this year, marking a major strategy shift.
Shaw Beckett·
Health
Stanford AI Predicts 100+ Diseases from One Night of Sleep
SleepFM analyzes your brain, heart, and breathing patterns during sleep to identify Parkinson's, cancer, and dementia years before symptoms appear.
Dash Hartwell·
Technology
CES 2026: The Biggest Tech Announcements from Las Vegas
From Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips to Samsung's MicroRGB TVs and home robots that fold laundry, here's everything that matters from the show floor.
Shaw Beckett·
Business
Alphabet Surpasses Apple in Market Cap for First Time Since 2019
Google's parent company hits $3.88 trillion valuation as AI momentum propels its stock 65% higher in 2025, overtaking the iPhone maker.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Meta Buys Manus AI for $2 Billion in Its Boldest AI Bet Yet
Mark Zuckerberg acquires the Singapore-based AI startup that reached $100M revenue in eight months, signaling a major pivot in Meta's AI strategy.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
The AI War Just Got Real: OpenAI's GPT-5.2 vs Google's Gemini Deep Research
After an internal 'code red' memo, OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.2. Here's what the escalating AI arms race means for the industry.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Big Tech Is Pouring $67 Billion Into India's AI Future
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are betting billions on India's AI infrastructure in a week-long spending spree that reshapes the global AI landscape.
Shaw Beckett·
World
China's Top Universities Launch 'Embodied Intelligence' Degrees for AI-Robotics Future
Seven elite Chinese universities are training students to build robots that think. The country says it needs a million more AI-robotics professionals within a decade.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Deepfakes Are Now Undetectable (Here's What That Means)
The technology to detect AI-generated images and videos just lost the arms race, and the implications go way beyond social media.
Shaw Beckett·
Politics
The Politicians Using AI to Run Their Campaigns (and Winning)
AI is writing fundraising emails, targeting ads, and even helping craft policy positions, and voters have no idea.
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Why Everyone in Tech Is Suddenly Talking About 'Agentic AI'
Forget chatbots. AI agents that can actually complete tasks for you are here, and they're about to change how we work.
Shaw Beckett·
Business
Why Every Major Company Is Suddenly Obsessed With 'Chief AI Officers'
The newest C-suite position is popping up everywhere, commanding seven-figure salaries, but what do these executives actually do?
Shaw Beckett·
Technology
Why Programmers Are Worried About GitHub Copilot
AI coding assistants are getting so good that software engineers are asking: will my job exist in 10 years?
Shaw Beckett·