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…
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…
EU Fines Temu €200 Million Under Digital Services Act
Brussels delivered its verdict Thursday morning: Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant that has upended European retail with ultra-cheap goods, will pay €200 million — about $232 million — for failing…
DDR4 Module Prices Slide as Memory Buyers Sit on Inventory
In Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen’s warren of electronics stalls, memory modules stack ceiling-high in shopfronts that measure business in cartons moved per day. This week, the cartons are moving slower. Industry-standard 8GB…
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…
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…
Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi in Gambling Crackdown
Spanish users who opened Polymarket or Kalshi this week found the sites unreachable. Spain’s gambling regulator ordered internet providers to block the two prediction-market platforms on the ground that they…
The $500,000 Token Bill: AI Costs Test Silicon Valley’s Faith
The figure circulates privately among AI executives, usually in the form of a question: do you know what one of your users is costing you? A report this week by…
