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Alphabet Leads as Big Tech Turbocharges AI Infrastructure

The AI infrastructure arms race hits full throttle as Alphabet breaks away with a 63% surge in Google Cloud revenue to US$20bn for Q12026

Washington has a new Anthropic problem

Anthropic is both a risk and a necessity to AI progress, at least in the White House's telling.

Exploring the Tech Behind Formula E’s Gen4 Revolution

Formula E teams and manufacturers will develop and race the Gen4 model during the 2026/27 season of the Formula E World Championship

McKinsey says clients are getting $3 back for every $1 spent on AI: 'Not too shabby.'

McKinsey says AI investment is starting to yield monetary returns for companies.

Exclusive: AI Use Booms in States, With Mixed Results

States are rapidly embracing AI by launching low-risk pilot programs, but haven't figured out how to measure their impact.

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

Launching next week on T-Mobile's network, the cell plan takes a nuclear approach to online safety.

Mark Zuckerberg says most AI agents don't pass the 'mother' test

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that AI agents showed promise for the future — but many weren't ready for his mom.

Greg Brockman says 80% of OpenAI’s code is now written by AI

Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests.

Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon raises $500M for Flourish, a brain-inspired AI efficiency startup valued at $2.5B

Thomas Reardon, who created Internet Explorer and sold neural interface startup CTRL-labs to Meta for up to $1 billion, is raising approximately $500 million for Flourish at a $2.5 billion valuation. The startup uses connectomics and neuroscience to design AI architectures that are radically more energy-efficient, targeting the architectural layer above silicon rather than building new chips. Lux Capital and GV, who backed CTRL-labs, are expected to lead the round.

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them.

OpenAI's president says AI has gone from writing 20% to '80% of your code'

Greg Brockman said that AI has become more than a small supporting tool for software engineers.

An early-stage VC shares why he's not investing in AI coding startups

Jussi Salovaara, managing partner at startup accelerator Antler Asia, said he doesn't see much more room for new entrants in the AI-assisted coding space.