Coursera-Udemy $2.5B Merger Creates 290M-User Giant
Coursera and Udemy completed a $2.5 billion merger on May 11, creating the world’s largest online learning platform with 290 million learners. The ...
Samsung Hits $1 Trillion: AI Memory Chip Boom Powers Quadruple Rally
Samsung Electronics hit $1 trillion in market value on May 6 after shares rallied 14% ...
EU Caves to Big Tech: AI Act Delayed 16 Months After Lobbying
On May 7, 2026, the European Union blinked. After months of industry pressure, EU lawmakers ...
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 ...
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 wasted on idle compute, overprovisioned instances, and orphaned ...
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 ...
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 ...