Discord IPO: $15B Platform Files for March 2026 Debut
Discord filed for IPO January 6, 2026, targeting March debut at $15B valuation. Can the community-first platform survive public market monetization pressure?
AI Coding Assistants: 19% Slower Despite 20% Faster Feel
Developers using AI coding tools are 19% slower yet feel 20% faster. Four rigorous 2025 ...
DeepSeek R1: Open Source AI Matches o1 at 95% Lower Cost
DeepSeek R1 matches OpenAI o1 benchmarks at $2.19 vs $60 per million tokens. MIT license, ...
LEGO Smart Brick: 4.1mm ASIC – Smallest CES 2026 Chip
LEGO unveiled the Smart Brick at CES 2026—a 4.1mm ASIC chip inside a standard 2x4 ...
AI Inference Costs: 55% of Cloud Spending in 2026
2026 marks a historic shift: AI inference workloads consume 55% of cloud spending ($37.5B), surpassing ...
Google Gemini on TV: CES 2026 AI Living Room Takeover
Google announced Gemini AI for Google TV at CES 2026 with voice control, Photos AI, and Deep Dives. Here's what it means for ...
Sergey Brin Unretirement: AI Pulled Him Back to Google
Sergey Brin called his 2019 retirement a disaster. The Google co-founder was "spiraling" without work ...
xAI Raises $20B, Burns $1B/Month – Nvidia Bets Big
Elon Musk's xAI raised $20B yesterday from Nvidia and others, but burns $1B monthly. Here's ...
Developer Skills Decay in 2.5 Years: Learning Crisis
McKinsey and General Catalyst executives declared this week that the era of “learn once, work ...
Opus 4.5 Crosses AI Agent Threshold: 80% SWE-Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 hit 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified—first above 80%. Google engineer: Claude Code built ...
