ASML Becomes Europe’s Most Valuable Company on AI Chip Demand
ASML has become the most valuable company in European history. The Dutch maker of lithography machines, whose equipment is required to produce every advanced AI chip, has seen its market…
Amazon Shows AI-Generated Product Photos in Search Results
Some of the products appearing in Amazon’s search results do not exist. The retailer has begun displaying AI-generated images for certain items, and in tests by The Verge, searches for…
Suno Raises $400 Million While Fighting the Music Industry
Suno, the AI company that lets anyone generate a song from a text prompt, has raised $400 million in new funding even as it fights a copyright battle that could…
Oura Ring 5 Gets Thinner, Lighter, Smarter
The computer on your finger is getting an upgrade. Oura, the company that made the smart ring a category, has released the fifth generation of its namesake device, and the…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
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…
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…
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…
Bitcoin Slides Toward a Halving From Its Peak as Four Pressures Converge
NEW YORK — The sale was small, thirty-two coins, worth a few million dollars, and it would have been invisible in any other week. But the seller was Strategy, the…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for an IPO, Stepping Ahead of OpenAI
The announcement landed on a Monday morning with the understated cadence of a compliance notice, and it changed the shape of the year’s biggest listing season. Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence company…
