Alphabet Raises $80 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Share Sale to Fund AI Buildout
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The news arrived in a regulatory filing rather than a keynote, and it was the largest equity raise in Google’s history. Alphabet announced plans to sell…
Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business
TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…
Uber’s Employees Spent the Year’s AI Budget in Four Months, and Finance Took Notice
SAN FRANCISCO — The spreadsheet landed on the chief financial officer’s desk with a number that did not look right. Uber’s internal data showed employees had used up the company’s…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Setting Up a Test of AI Valuations
SAN FRANCISCO — The paperwork has not been made public, and the company has said almost nothing, but the filing landed this week and it is the most anticipated document…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
Britain Rules Website Owners Can Block Google From Training AI on Their Content
LONDON — For years, the default assumption inside the AI industry was that anything posted publicly on the internet was fair game for training models. A British regulatory ruling this…
Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…
OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking
NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…
Microsoft’s Project Solara Puts an Operating System on Standalone AI Devices
SEATTLE — The device on the Build 2026 stage had no screen, no keyboard, and no obvious way to control it. It was a small black puck sitting on a…
Microsoft’s Scout Assistant Manages Your Calendar, and Learns How You Work
SEATTLE — The demonstration began with a calendar that had gone wrong. Three meetings had been double-booked, a deadline had slipped, and a policy document was due in two hours.…
