DuckDuckGo Traffic Jumps as Google Doubles Down on AI Search
Sundar Pichai said last week that people love AI Mode. The numbers from DuckDuckGo suggest a sizable minority disagrees. Between May 20 and May 25, visits to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search…
Apple Prepares Siri Overhaul for iOS 27
The images surfaced on Bloomberg late this month, and they show the most consequential change to Siri’s look since the assistant was introduced in 2011. In the renderings, Siri’s interface…
Frontier AI Models Disagree on Most Fact-Checks
Ask five of the world’s most capable AI models whether a claim is true, and you will get different answers more often than not. A research paper published this month…
Meta Cuts 1,400 Seattle Jobs as Zuckerberg’s Yacht Docks
The 387-foot yacht passed through Seattle’s Ballard Locks on Tuesday evening, and a crowd gathered along the walkway to watch. Some booed. One heckler shouted at the crew to pay…
JD.com Says It Isn’t Bidding for Britain’s The Very Group
Executives at The Very Group, the British online retailer owned by the Barclay family, spent part of this week answering questions about a buyer that isn’t coming. Reports circulated that…
Micron Crosses $1 Trillion as Memory Stocks Lead a Split Market
The closing bell on May 26 split Wall Street into two markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.23%, the S&P 500 rose 0.61%, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.19%.…
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Posts 300% Revenue Jump as Video Model Finds Paying Users
The conventional wisdom about China’s AI industry has been that its models impress and its revenue disappoints. Kuaishou is building a counter-example. In the first quarter of 2026, the company’s…
DuckDuckGo Installations Surge as Google Pushes AI Into Search
The numbers arrived on Monday with a neat symmetry: for six consecutive days, more Americans downloaded DuckDuckGo’s app, and the week’s total rose 18.1% over the week before, the company…
Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max Takes Second Place on AI Coding Leaderboard
The ranking that software engineers refresh obsessively changed its top tier this week. Qwen3.7-Max, Alibaba’s newest flagship model, scored 1541 on Code Arena, a widely cited third-party benchmark for AI…
Kuaishou CEO: Kling AI’s Annualized Revenue Approaches $500 Million
Cheng Yixiao, Kuaishou’s chief executive, brought a number to the company’s first-quarter earnings call that investors have been waiting to hear from China’s AI industry: a real revenue figure, growing…
