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Why Is RAM So Expensive? Samsung's AI Chip Boom Just Made It the World's Most Profitable Tech Company
Samsung's preliminary Q2 2026 operating profit beat Nvidia's, and the same AI memory shortage behind it is why DRAM and NAND prices keep climbing.
Meta's New AI Image Generator Turns Instagram Photos Into Raw Material
Muse Image launches with Instagram tagging switched on by default, testing how far consumers will let AI reuse their public photos.
Meta's Secret Teen-Impersonation Project Puts AI Ethics and Regulation on Trial
Contractors posed as 13-to-17-year-olds to flood ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with disturbing prompts. Now US regulators are asking who's accountable.
Anthropic Moves From AI Research Tools Into AI Drug Discovery
Claude Science and an internal drug pipeline put Anthropic on both sides of the biopharma transaction, and directly in the path of Isomorphic Labs and OpenAI
Claude Code vs Codex: The Full 2026 Comparison
Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol are now weeks apart on release dates. Here is where each coding agent actually wins.
OpenAI Proposes 5% Government Stake to Ease Trump Administration Pressure
Sam Altman has discussed handing Washington an equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, part of a broader push to get other US AI labs to do the same.
Meta Plans Cloud Business to Sell AI Compute as Meta Platforms Stock Jumps 9%
Bloomberg reports Meta is building a unit to sell AI computing power and hosted models, setting up a direct challenge to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Claude Fable 5 Returns After Jailbreak Triggered a 19-Day Export Ban
Anthropic restores global access to Fable 5 and expands Mythos 5 to vetted US organizations after a Commerce Department order tied to an Amazon-discovered jailbreak.
Microsoft Layoffs 2026: New Cuts to Hit Sales, Consulting, and Xbox
Business Insider reports Microsoft will cut under 2.5% of its workforce as soon as next week, layering fresh cuts on top of an already turbulent fiscal year for the company.
Claude Science: Anthropic Builds an AI for Science Workbench, Not Just Another Model
The new desktop app bundles 60+ scientific databases, compute management, and reproducible outputs into one environment, entering a race that already includes Google's Gemini for Science and OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind.
Amazon Is Hiring 11,000 Grads While Everyone Worries About AI Replacing Jobs
AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon's entry-level hiring plan undercuts the loudest fears about AI replacing jobs, even as the company keeps cutting corporate headcount elsewhere.
Claude Sonnet 5 Closes the Gap With Opus on Agentic AI Tasks
Anthropic's new mid-tier model brings near-Opus performance, a 1M token context window, and tighter safety guardrails at a lower price.
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