Salesforce Buys Contentful, Betting Content Is the Missing AI Layer
The deal had been discussed for years inside both companies, and on June 1 it finally closed on paper. Salesforce announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful,…
Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop
The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…
GitHub’s New Copilot Billing Has Developers Doing the Math
The change went live at midnight UTC, and by morning the developer forums were full of arithmetic. GitHub switched Copilot from a flat-rate subscription model to token-based billing on June…
FCC’s Warning to Broadcasters Lands as ABC Fights for Its Licenses
On the same day ABC’s eight television stations filed license-renewal applications “under protest,” the Federal Communications Commission sent a message to every broadcaster in the country: review your operations, or…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
Treasury Seizes $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto, Expanding a New Sanctions Weapon
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that American authorities had seized roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, the largest U.S. action of its kind against a single country’s…
Pope Leo’s First Encyclical Takes Aim at AI’s ‘Technological Messianism’
VATICAN CITY — The word Pope Leo XIV chose was “disarm.” Presenting “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25, the pope told an audience…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
Anthropic’s $65 Billion Raise Pushes It Past OpenAI in AI’s Valuation Race
The chipmakers who supply the memory inside artificial-intelligence data centers rarely write checks to software startups. This week, three of the world’s largest memory makers made an exception. Micron Technology,…
Dell’s AI Server Surge Lifts Shares Nearly 40%
Michael Dell spent the 1990s convincing corporate buyers that cheap, standardized servers could replace mainframes. The sequel to that story played out after the closing bell Thursday, when Dell Technologies…
