AI, startups, gadgets, and the companies rewiring how we live and work.
Matthew Prince says automated traffic overtook humans on the web faster than he predicted, and he is pushing AI companies to start paying for the content their crawlers have been taking for free.
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Nvidia is paying nearly 13 billion dollars for a company that brings in only about 150 million a year in revenue. The price tag says less about Hugging Face's earnings than about how badly Nvidia wants to own the layer where AI actually gets built.
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A new Deloitte model tries to do something that has mostly lived in science fiction, putting an actual dollar figure on what mining, building and operating on the moon could be worth within twenty five years.
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Futurist Amy Webb says businesses have fallen into a spending trap. Artificial intelligence lowers the cost of individual tasks while quietly inflating everything around them, and she expects the accounting to catch up within two years.
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Alex Kendall built Wayve on a contrarian bet, that a car should learn to drive the way a person does rather than follow a pre drawn map. Now, with a fortune raised and the government clearing the road, his machines are about to carry paying passengers through British cities.
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The company that built the picks and shovels of the artificial intelligence boom still towers over its market. The threat now comes from the giants who buy the most chips of all, and who have decided they would rather make their own.
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The Commission says Google rigged its own search results and boxed in app developers. The penalty is the largest yet under Europe's new digital rulebook, and it lands just as the United States sharpens its tariff threats.
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Apple is preparing at least five new iPhones, including a foldable, just as a squeeze on memory and components hits the industry. Its plan is to win share while smaller rivals scramble for parts.
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Anthropic says a Chinese rival copied its model by quietly asking it questions. The accusation lands just as the company eyes a giant public listing, and it exposes an awkward truth about how shallow the moats in artificial intelligence may be.
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Micron just posted a 346 percent jump in quarterly revenue as demand for the specialised memory inside AI servers outstrips what the world can make. The boom shows the AI gold rush is minting fortunes well beyond Nvidia.
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In an internet flooded with AI text and polished marketing, Reddit is betting that real people talking to real people is the rarest thing of all. Its COO thinks that bet leads to a billion users.
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Cheap data and a new wave of AI tools are reaching the villages where most Indians still live. The result is a quiet revolution in how farmers earn, families bank, and a billion people get online.
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Apple has spent two years looking like a straggler while rivals dazzled with chatbots. Yet its reach, its grip on personal data, and the trust of a billion users could still make it the contest's dark horse.
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The systems that once needed armies of human engineers are starting to design, train, and improve their own successors. That promises faster progress, and it raises a harder question about who stays in charge.
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Once known mainly for its caution, the maker of Claude has become one of the fastest growing companies in technology. That success now invites fire from rivals, regulators, and its own soaring ambitions.
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