Trump Joins AI Chiefs at G7, Resists Curbs on Frontier Models
The room at this week’s Group of Seven summit held an unfamiliar mix: heads of government seated across from the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The three men…
Apple Confirms Price Rises as Memory Costs Bite
Tim Cook’s call with analysts this week ran short, and his message was one Apple investors rarely hear from him: prices are going up. The chief executive said the global…
Search Ads Face New U.K. Rules as Epic Wins App Store Fight
Two decisions landed on the same day, and together they hit the two business models that have financed the internet for two decades. In London, the competition regulator imposed new…
Tencent Lets AI Agents Shop Through WeChat Pay
The agent did what millions of shoppers do every day: browsed mini-programs, compared prices, placed an order and paid, with no human in the loop. Caixin reported this week that…
Amazon Puts $12 Billion Into European Warehouses
The robot that Amazon showed off in Europe this week responds to plain language. A worker tells it where to take the cage of packages, and the machine, an updated…
Google Enters the AI Speaker Market at $99
The speaker Google unveiled this week looks like the Home models the company stopped updating years ago, but the inside is different: Gemini. The device, priced at $99, is Google’s…
Microsoft Loosens OpenAI Exclusivity in Revised Deal
For five years, the arrangement was simple. Microsoft held exclusive rights to OpenAI’s models, and OpenAI drew on Microsoft’s money and cloud capacity. This week the two companies quietly revised…
Ambani’s Next Act: AI in Every Jio Call, Every App, Every Screen
Mukesh Ambani does not usually need to raise his voice to change the direction of Indian technology. The chairman of Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company, used his annual shareholder…
Baseten Seeks $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation, Months After Its Last Mega-Round
Five months. That is how long Baseten waited between its last giant fundraising round and its next one. The AI inference company, which raised $300 million at a $5 billion…
EU Orders Meta to Restore Free WhatsApp Access for Competing AI Chatbots
The ruling arrived in Brussels on a Friday and landed in Palo Alto before the weekend. The European Commission, acting under the Digital Markets Act, found that Meta had breached…
