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SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI
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SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI

The world's HBM shortage has a name: RAMmageddon. South Korea's memory giant just filed for Wall Street's biggest tech listing in five years to fix it.
Editor 9 min read a day ago
Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking
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Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking

The first agreement under the National AI Plan gives Canberra access to Anthropic's economic index data and commits both sides to joint safety evaluations.
Editor 5 min read a day ago
What Anthropic's Second Source Code Leak Reveals
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What Anthropic's Second Source Code Leak Reveals

Anthropic accidentally published a 59.8MB source map file. The contents reveal an ambitious product roadmap and a persistent supply chain vulnerability.
Editor 4 min read a day ago
Meta cuts 168 jobs as Reality Labs pivots to 'AI builders'
Technology

Meta cuts 168 jobs as Reality Labs pivots to 'AI builders'

Virtual reality division restructured into AI-native pods as Zuckerberg doubles down on artificial intelligence
Editor 6 min read 2 days ago
Musk's $250B Bet: SpaceX Swallows xAI in History's Largest Acquisition
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Musk's $250B Bet: SpaceX Swallows xAI in History's Largest Acquisition

The rocket maker valued at $1 trillion absorbs the AI startup in a deal that reshapes Musk's empire ahead of a planned IPO
Editor 7 min read 2 days ago
China's Lobster Farming Frenzy: The OpenClaw Rush
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China's Lobster Farming Frenzy: The OpenClaw Rush

As Chinese tech events overflow with lobster merchandise, security warnings mount over the autonomous AI agent sweeping the nation
Editor 7 min read 2 days ago
Microsoft Bets $1 Billion That Thailand Can Beat Singapore at AI
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Microsoft Bets $1 Billion That Thailand Can Beat Singapore at AI

Cloud infrastructure deal signals ASEAN power shift as companies hunt alternatives to expensive city-state hubs
Editor 8 min read 4 days ago
Trump Names Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison to White House AI Council
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Trump Names Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison to White House AI Council

13 tech CEOs appointed to PCAST, Musk and Altman absent
Editor 6 min read 4 days ago
CFOs Admit AI Layoffs Will Be 9x Higher This Year, But Won't Say Where
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CFOs Admit AI Layoffs Will Be 9x Higher This Year, But Won't Say Where

A new Duke-Fed survey reveals companies plan half a million job cuts attributed to AI in 2026. The twist? Most CFOs admit they're seeing zero productivity gains.
Editor 8 min read 4 days ago
Microsoft Copilot Pits GPT Against Claude in New Researcher Upgrade
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Microsoft Copilot Pits GPT Against Claude in New Researcher Upgrade

New Critique feature uses GPT to draft responses and Claude to fact-check them, achieving a 57.4% score on deep research benchmarks
Editor 6 min read 4 days ago
SoftBank's $40 Billion Loan Signals OpenAI IPO Coming This Year
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SoftBank's $40 Billion Loan Signals OpenAI IPO Coming This Year

Wall Street giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs extend unsecured 12-month loan that bets on one of history's largest public listings
Editor 6 min read 4 days ago
Amazon Buys Fauna Robotics for $350M, Escalating Humanoid Robot Race
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Amazon Buys Fauna Robotics for $350M, Escalating Humanoid Robot Race

The e-commerce giant acquires maker of Sprout, a kid-sized home robot, as humanoid competition heats up
Editor 7 min read 4 days ago
Google Backs Anthropic's $5B Texas Data Center in AI Arms Race
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Google Backs Anthropic's $5B Texas Data Center in AI Arms Race

Tech giant offers construction financing for 500MW campus as Claude creator locks in compute capacity advantage over smaller rivals
Editor 8 min read 4 days ago
SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment
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SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment

The unsecured 12-month bridge loan signals lenders expect OpenAI's public listing to happen within the year, giving SoftBank liquidity to settle the debt.
Editor 7 min read 5 days ago
Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't
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Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't

From GPT-2 in 2019 to Mythos in 2026, AI labs keep warning us their models are too powerful for public release. Then they release them anyway. At some point you have to wonder if this is safety or marketing.
Editor 6 min read 5 days ago
Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026
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Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026

Rebuilt Siri gains deep app integration, conversational chat interface, and web-sourced summaries to compete with Perplexity and Google Gemini.
Editor 4 min read 6 days ago
Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October
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Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October

The Claude maker is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. At $60 billion, it would dwarf OpenAI's expected offering later this year.
Editor 4 min read 7 days ago
Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27
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Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27

OpenAI's exclusive partnership ends. Users will choose their preferred chatbot through new Extensions settings. Apple is also building its own chatbot Siri based on Gemini.
Editor 5 min read 7 days ago
Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Seeks $25 Billion Valuation in AI Infrastructure Race
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Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Seeks $25 Billion Valuation in AI Infrastructure Race

The startup is in talks to raise $2.5 billion, underscoring the staggering capital requirements of building AI infrastructure at scale.
Editor 6 min read 7 days ago
Amazon Building Another AI Phone After Fire Phone Disaster
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Amazon Building Another AI Phone After Fire Phone Disaster

The Fire Phone lasted one year. Alexa devices lost $25 billion. Now Amazon's ZeroOne team thinks AI can change the math.
Editor 7 min read 12 days ago
Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence
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Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence

Andy Weir's blockbuster rests on a quietly radical thesis: that all intelligent civilizations hit the same ceiling, discover the same technologies, and face the same existential threats. Two writers argue about what this means for AI.
Editor 12 min read 13 days ago
OpenAI Plans to Nearly Double Workforce to 8,000 as Claude Code Gains Ground
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OpenAI Plans to Nearly Double Workforce to 8,000 as Claude Code Gains Ground

Sam Altman's company aims to expand from 4,500 staff in one of tech's most aggressive hiring pushes, as rival Anthropic captures a fifth of its business through coding tools.
Editor 5 min read 13 days ago
Best Digital Marketing and Media Buying Agencies in Australia for 2026
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Best Digital Marketing and Media Buying Agencies in Australia for 2026

A practical guide to Australia's top digital marketing and media buying agencies: performance specialists, full-service firms, and programmatic experts from Sydney to Perth.
Editor 8 min read 13 days ago
Top 10 SEO Agencies in Australia for 2026
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Top 10 SEO Agencies in Australia for 2026

The definitive guide to Australia's leading SEO agencies. Who delivers results in both traditional search and AI-generated answers, and who is falling behind.
Editor 9 min read 13 days ago
The case against AI therapists is now in evidence
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The case against AI therapists is now in evidence

New research quantifies what regulators should have anticipated: chatbots designed to be agreeable are harming people in psychological distress.
Editor 8 min read 13 days ago

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