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…
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…
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…
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…
Meta’s $14.3 Billion AI Bet Hits a Data Wall
Inside Meta Platforms’ AI teams, engineers have adopted a phrase that now circulates in group chats and all-hands meetings: they describe the internal environment as a “soul-crushing gulag,” according to…
SpaceX Shares Keep Climbing as Quarterly Revenue Beats Forecasts
SpaceX shares rose about 4% in a single session this week, extending a rally that has carried the company since its public listing and pushed its market value past several…
OpenAI Adds Gemini Leader and Ex-White House Adviser Before IPO
Noam Shazeer, the engineer who co-wrote the paper that launched the modern AI boom and later returned to Google to lead its Gemini models, has left the company again, this…
Japan’s Go Plots Robotaxi Push After Record IPO
Go’s chief executive had been hearing the same question since his company’s listing in Tokyo: what are you going to do with the money? This week he gave an answer.…
AWS Pushes AI Agents Into Corporate Workflows
On a stage in New York this week, an Amazon Web Services executive asked an AI agent to resolve a customer issue, and the agent did the work: pulling records…
Broadcom Shares Tumble as Software Drags on Earnings
Broadcom investors had grown used to the pattern: the company’s AI chip business prints numbers, and the stock goes up. This week the pattern broke. The company’s shares fell sharply…
