Big Tech’s $725B AI Bet: 50K Workers Exit for GPUs
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet will collectively spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026—up 77% from last year’s record $410 billion. That’s ...
Anthropic Finance Agents Deployed at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs
On May 5, 2026, Anthropic launched 10 pre-built AI agents designed to automate the most ...
Cloud Waste Hits $182B: Why 35% of Cloud Spend Is Burned
Cloud infrastructure spending hit $675 billion globally in 2025, but 27-35% of it—roughly $182 billion—was ...
China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus AI Deal: The Unwinding Dilemma
China ordered Meta to “unwind” its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup ...
Apple Hardware Chief Named CEO: iOS 26 Crisis
Apple named hardware exec John Ternus as CEO on April 20, 2026. iOS 26 adoption ...
Pentagon AI Contracts: 8 Firms In, Anthropic Blacklisted
The Pentagon signed formal agreements yesterday with eight tech companies—SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and Reflection—to deploy frontier AI ...
Ask.com Shuts Down After 25 Years: Search Monopoly Wins
Ask.com shut down on May 1, 2026, ending 25 years of trying to compete with ...
AI Water Usage: Altman’s Right, Wrong on 300% Growth
Sam Altman calls AI water concerns 'fake,' but the truth is nuanced. 300% growth, 70-80% ...
Spotify’s Human-Only Verification: AI Artists Excluded
Spotify dropped a verification bomb on April 30: a new “Verified by Spotify” green checkmark ...
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs to Fund $115 Billion AI Spending
Meta announced on April 23 that it will lay off 8,000 employees—10% of its workforce—effective ...