OpenAI has hired Google’s former corporate development lead, who worked on deals like the $32B Wiz acquisition. This signals a major new phase of strategic investments and acquisitions for the $500 billion AI giant.
The global agentic AI market is forecast to hit $45.4 billion by 2029, growing at over 50% a year. Asia-Pacific, led by China, has already overtaken North America in revenue. But the shift from pilots to production is fraught with challenges.
Zoom has opened up its AI Companion to users on free Basic accounts. The catch? You only get to use it for three meetings per month. It’s a classic freemium play to get you hooked.
A security bug on the OpenReview platform revealed the identities of thousands of anonymous peer reviewers for the ICLR 2026 conference. The leak has resulted in threats and bribery attempts, highlighting a system overwhelmed by exponential submission growth and AI-generated reviews. The incident is
AI funding is pouring into every layer of the tech stack, from startups aiming to enable one-person billion-dollar companies to real-time media generators. The common thread is a shift from AI as a productivity tool to AI as an autonomous operator.
Google has announced Disco, an experimental AI-powered browser. Its key feature, GenTabs, processes your open tabs and chat history to automatically create interactive web applications for tasks like trip planning.
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to challenge state AI laws, arguing for a single national framework. But legal experts and startups say it will create prolonged uncertainty and legal battles, leaving young companies in limbo.
Stanford professor and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says she cares less about a candidate’s degree and more about their ability to “superpower” themselves with new AI tools. This reflects a broader industry trend where skills and adaptability are overtaking traditional credentials in tech hiring.
Oracle’s Q2 earnings revealed a massive paradox: AI demand is through the roof, but the stock tanked. The company added $68 billion to its backlog in a single quarter, yet couldn’t convert it to revenue fast enough for Wall Street. The bottleneck has shifted from sales to concrete and power.
Cloudflare has blocked over 416 billion requests from AI bots scraping the web in just the last six months. CEO Matthew Prince is now taking direct aim at Google for what he calls an abuse of power in merging its search and AI crawlers.
