Meta Puts AI Search at the Center of Facebook
For most of its two decades, the search bar at the top of Facebook has been one of the least useful tools on the internet. On Monday, Meta Platforms turned…
Security Experts Urge White House to Reverse Ban on Anthropic’s Top Models
The message that triggered the whole affair was three words long: “Fix this code.” According to Fortune, that was the extent of the “jailbreak” that led the U.S. government to…
Memory-Chip Stocks Rally as Iran Accord Lifts a Sector Already Running Hot
The rally that swept global markets Monday ran first through a cluster of companies that most Americans cannot name. Memory-chip makers surged across the board: Western Digital jumped 13%, SanDisk…
Musk Predicts $1 Trillion in Annual Revenue for SpaceX; Analysts Disagree
On Sunday night, Elon Musk posted a number to X that made even his admirers pause: $1 trillion. By 2030, he wrote, SpaceX could reach roughly $1 trillion in annual…
Anthropic Disconnects Its Two Strongest Models After U.S. Export Order
The order arrived at 5:21 p.m. on a Friday, stamped with a national-security authorization, and it left Anthropic with little choice. On June 12, the U.S. government directed the AI…
Morgan Stanley Says Wall Street Is Missing Meta’s AI Moat
Brian Nowak has covered Meta Platforms since it was still called Facebook. On June 6, the Morgan Stanley analyst went back to his clients with a message he has delivered…
Oracle Completes 30,000 Layoffs, Its Largest Cut Ever
By Monday, the last of the termination notices had gone out, and Oracle’s payroll was 30,000 names lighter. The company met its June 15 deadline for a reduction of about…
AI Now Accounts for a Record Share of U.S. Job Cuts, Data Show
The tally kept by Challenger, Gray & Christmas now has a category that its founder could not have imagined when the firm started tracking layoffs in 1993: artificial intelligence. Through…
Google Appeals German Ruling That Put AI Search on the Hook
The May ruling from a Munich court was blunt, and the sentence has been quoted across the industry ever since: “Nobody needs AI to search the internet.” Google filed its…
SpaceX’s Rise Rewrites the Alphabet of Big Tech
The ticker tape says it plainly: SpaceX, a company whose shares began trading days ago, now sits among the six most valuable companies in the United States. With a market…
