Google Deepens Intel Chip Ties in AI Cloud Push
The announcement arrived as a routine press release on an April morning, but the engineering detail buried in it says more about how AI data centers are changing than most…
Samsung Pay Deal Averts 18-Day Chip Strike
The vote closed at 7 a.m. Wednesday, minutes before a strike deadline that had hung over the world’s largest memory-chip maker for weeks. Union officials in Suwon, south of Seoul,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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%.…
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…
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…
Dropbox’s Drew Houston Hands Over the CEO Role
In 2007, Drew Houston forgot a USB drive on a bus from Boston to New York, and the annoyance became a company. The frustration of carrying files on physical media…
