Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Palantir posted second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, with U.S. commercial revenue surging 149% to $764 million, prompting the AI software company to raise its full-year guidance and sending its stock up 12%.
Jay Goldberg · YESTERDAY
Archewell Philanthropies, the charitable organization of Prince Harry and Meghan, is urging Congress to act on AI deepfake legislation and accusing Big Tech of retaliating against child safety measures.
Marc Sabatini · 2 DAYS AGO
June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, exited stealth Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to help large enterprises automate the complex process of deploying AI tools within existing corporate systems.
TechEchelon Staff · 2 DAYS AGO
Apple's MacBook Air is now facing supply constraints tied to the global memory chip shortage, with delivery times slipping into late August and September as AI infrastructure spending by major tech companies strains semiconductor availability.
Sara Montes de Oca · 2 DAYS AGO
Apple is expected to debut its first foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models next month, with IDC predicting it will capture 34 percent of the foldable market by value in its first year, potentially pulling the long-niche category toward the mainstream.
Marc Sabatini · 3 DAYS AGO
Pippa, a text-to-video startup that launched in May, pays artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video each time their style is used — but its models still rely on open training data scraped without creators' consent.
Jay Goldberg · 3 DAYS AGO
Uber has built a network of more than 30 autonomous vehicle partners over two years, spanning robotaxis, self-driving trucks, and delivery robots across multiple continents, according to a comprehensive deal tracker published Friday by TechCrunch.
Marc Sabatini · 4 DAYS AGO
A discarded SpaceX upper stage is expected to strike the moon Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, an unintentional collision that scientists say will produce observable data on space debris risks to future lunar missions.
Jay Goldberg · 5 DAYS AGO
AI spending among the largest technology companies is projected to reach $765 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all reported deteriorating cash positions amid a worsening memory chip shortage.
Sara Montes de Oca · 5 DAYS AGO
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
Marc Sabatini · 6 DAYS AGO
Amazon-owned Zoox received a temporary NHTSA exemption on Thursday allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually and begin charging fares, with paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas set to launch next month.
Marc Sabatini · 6 DAYS AGO
Samsung Electronics reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, up 1,814% year on year, driven by AI chip demand — and warned that memory supply constraints will persist through 2028.
Sara Montes de Oca · 6 DAYS AGO
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the tension between leasing excess AI computing capacity to outside customers and preserving it for internal model development, as the company raised the low end of its 2026 capex guidance to $130 billion and reported free cash flow fell 90% year over year.
TechEchelon Staff · 6 DAYS AGO
Samsung Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom covering memory chips, contract manufacturing, and advanced packaging in a collaboration projected to exceed $200 billion through 2030, bolstering Samsung's foundry ambitions against TSMC.
Jay Goldberg · 10 DAYS AGO
The EPA is considering a rule change that would let states decide how much public participation — if any — is required for air pollution permits covering diesel generators and gas plants used to power AI data centers.
Marc Sabatini · 11 DAYS AGO
Waymo will launch its own standalone app in Atlanta and Austin in January 2028, ending a three-year exclusivity arrangement that made Uber the sole platform for its robotaxi service in those two cities.
Sara Montes de Oca · 11 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration announced $5 billion in AI-focused "Genesis Mission" science grants Thursday, but researchers warn the initiative's venture-capital model fundamentally misunderstands how scientific discovery works.
Jay Goldberg · 12 DAYS AGO
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