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Google has spent years building its own AI chips for internal use and renting access to them through its cloud platform. Now, for the first time, it is selling those chips directly to outside customers who will install them in their own data centers. The announcement, made during Alphabet’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call on April 29, marks a fundamental shift in how Google plans to compete in the AI hardware market. More importantly, it puts the company more squarely in the business that has made Nvidia one of the most valuable companies in the world. What Google Announced Alphabet CEO…

A sprinter who wins a race but finishes three seconds behind their personal best still wins the race. OpenAI finds itself in a similar position. The company behind ChatGPT has fallen short of its own targets for revenue growth and new users, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. This shortfall has stirred internal concern at the company, raised questions about its ability to fund massive data center commitments, and sent stocks of its major infrastructure partners tumbling. Yet the company still carries a post-money valuation of $852 billion, the highest ever assigned to a private startup. The…

Most companies would not hand a new employee the master key to every room in the building on their first day, tell them to handle a problem, and then walk away. But it took only nine seconds for this exact dynamic to play out at PocketOS, a company that builds software for car rental businesses. Last month, the company reported that an AI coding agent that already had full access to its database was in the middle of a routine task when it ran into a minor login error otherwise known as a “credential mismatch” and decided on its own…

For decades, patent law operated on a simple assumption that if someone built something, the person gets to be credited for the idea. However, AI systems started generating ideas that humans had not thought of on their own, and that assumption quickly cracked. The World Intellectual Property Organization has now looked at how countries around the world responded to that crack and the answer is nearly unanimous. An AI cannot be listed as the inventor on a patent. But understanding why that answer matters requires looking at what actually happened that got us here. The Case That Forced the Question…

Corporate workers around the world are getting more work done than ever and many of them are being paid less for it. Research published in early 2026 by the IMF, Anthropic, Bank of America, and PwC shows the same pattern across multiple regions. AI tools are helping corporate workers finish tasks faster, and employers are responding by paying them less, hiring fewer new people, and in some cases, outrightly cutting salaries. All of this is to say while the productivity gains remain solid, there seems to be a pay problem. A Split That Is Widening Across Income Groups The IMF…

Launching thousands of satellites takes years. Buying a company that already has satellites in orbit, government permissions to operate them, and an established customer base takes considerably less time. That shortcut is what Amazon is paying roughly $11.57 billion for, after recently signing a merger agreement with satellite company Globalstar. The deal is expected to close in 2027, pending regulatory approval. Amazon wants to use Globalstar’s satellites and radio frequency licenses to add a direct-to-direct feature to its satellite internet service, Amazon Leo. Direct-to-device allows satellites to connect directly to smartphones without needing a separate router or terminal. This means…

Meta has raised the prices of its Quest VR headsets in the United States, effective April 19. The Quest 3S (128GB) now costs $349.99, up from $299.99; the Quest 3S (256GB) moves from $399.99 to $449.99, and the flagship Quest 3 (512GB) goes from $499.99 to $599.99, a $100 jump. The new prices cover both new and refurbished units. However, accessories are not affected. Meta explained the decision in a blog post, saying the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly. The company pointed specifically to a global surge in the price of memory chips, which it said…

OpenAI currently holds the record for the largest private funding round in startup history, and it got there by breaking its own record. The ChatGPT-maker recently closed a $122 billion round at a $852 billion valuation, surpassing the $40 billion raise it completed just 12 months earlier, which was itself the largest single investment ever recorded at the time. No private company has ever reached this $122 billion figure. And despite this massive achievement, one would expect OpenAI to be on the track to profitability. But that is not the case. Deutsche Bank has projected that the company will lose…

Meta has built an AI that can predict how your brain responds to sound, music, and speech, without scanning your brain, without studying you personally, and without your knowledge that it is doing so. On March 26, 2026, Meta’s AI research division released TRIBE v2, a model trained to predict brain activity in response to audio, images, and language. The model was built using brain scans from more than 700 healthy volunteers who were shown and played a range of media including images, podcasts, videos, and text. Meta also made everything public, releasing the model, the code behind it, the…

OpenAI has released a new AI model built specifically for cybersecurity professionals. The model, called GPT-5.4-Cyber, is a modified version of its existing GPT-5.4 model fine-tuned specifically for defensive cybersecurity work. It comes as a major expansion of the company’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, which now covers thousands of verified individual defenders and hundreds of teams responsible for defending critical software. What GPT-5.4-Cyber Actually Does The most significant thing GPT-5.4-Cyber can do is analyze software that has already been compiled into machine code, without needing to see the original source code. This process is called binary reverse engineering,…