SoftBank and OpenAI Take AI Security to Japanese Companies
Masayoshi Son has spent years telling investors that AI will change everything. On Tuesday his company began selling that argument to Japanese corporations, one vulnerability at a time. SoftBank Group,…
DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion Round With Unusual Terms
The announcement had been expected for months; the terms had not. DeepSeek said Tuesday it has completed its first external funding round of more than $7 billion, roughly 50 billion…
Threads Passes 500 Million Users, Lets Them Tune Its Algorithm
The feature Meta rolled out for Threads this week reads like an answer to a question users have asked since the app’s early days: why am I seeing this? The…
ChatGPT’s Share of the AI Assistant Market Dips Below 50%
For more than three years, the consumer AI story had a single main character. The numbers published Tuesday suggest the script is changing. ChatGPT’s share of the AI assistant market…
SpaceX to Buy AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
The deal came together in weeks, and it moved the way SpaceX does: fast, in-house, and with the company’s own stock as the currency. SpaceX said Tuesday it agreed to…
Microsoft Asks Amazon for Help as GitHub Strains Under AI Code
The two companies compete for cloud customers, for AI workloads and for the future of enterprise computing. Lately they are also trading favors. Microsoft has turned to Amazon Web Services…
Mango Heir Faces Homicide Inquiry After 999 Recording Surfaces
The voice on the recording is desperate. A man is on the line with British emergency services, saying his father has fallen into a ravine. The Sun newspaper published the…
A Google Engineer’s Warning on 10x Coding Speed
Adam Bender spends his working days inside one of the largest codebases on earth. A staff software engineer at Google, he has a message for developers that cuts against the…
AI Now Accounts for a Record Share of U.S. Job Cuts, Data Show
The tally kept by Challenger, Gray & Christmas now has a category that its founder could not have imagined when the firm started tracking layoffs in 1993: artificial intelligence. Through…
Oracle Completes 30,000 Layoffs, Its Largest Cut Ever
By Monday, the last of the termination notices had gone out, and Oracle’s payroll was 30,000 names lighter. The company met its June 15 deadline for a reduction of about…
