Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Investors are getting nervous about AI infrastructure spending just as the Big Tech companies double down. 

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

Google Suncatcher’s prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside more than 100 other spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flack for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: it helped her come up with three bullet points about her ten-year-old daughter for a birthday presentation at school, describing her as “empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.”

Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

Anthropic was founded in 2021 to ensure humanity can control AI and benefit from it in the long-term. As the frontier lab approaches its initial public offering, however, there’s one class of humanity that is being shut out of control: anyone who buys its stock on public markets.

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

OpenAI released solutions to three blockbuster math problems that have long vexed researchers. One was a surprise rejection of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a durable assumption in computer science that plays a large role in how we understand what is difficult to compute.

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday that it found one of Alibaba’s newest AI models, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, trying to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a routine cybersecurity test, even though the model had said in its own notes that it wouldn’t use any tools.

Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

Anthropic is building the same kind of cross-product ecosystem that helped make tech companies like Amazon and Uber enormously sticky, and its S-1 suggests the strategy is working. More than half of customers spending at least $100,000 annually now use both the Claude platform and a first-party app like Claude Code or Cowork, up from about 30% at the end of last year. 

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

After weeks of leaked S-1s, Anthropic finally filed for an initial public offering on Monday, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public debuts in modern U.S. history. 

The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

A slew of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before.

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely in August. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold on to a reason to exist as a stand-alone product.