AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing |

In Brief Posted: 2:12 PM PDT · September 4, 2026 Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may…

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model |

OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful and capable one yet. OpenAI claims…

Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates |

2:38 PM PDT · September 2, 2026 The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust…

Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? |

I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new…

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation |

In Brief Posted: 5:24 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to…

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale |

2:37 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI…

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf |

Nvidia is doing everything it can to keep fueling the AI buildout that has underpinned its own good fortunes. On Friday, it announced a partnership…

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams |

In Brief Posted: 1:58 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering VR headset, while…

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections |

As AI models have become more powerful, the potential for those models to be misused has grown — as has a clamor for safety guardrails…

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up |

In Brief Posted: 3:43 PM PDT · August 14, 2026 PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale —…