Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs — nearly 13% of its workforce — over the past year, citing AI deployment, while spending $1.8 billion on restructuring costs as it races to build out AI infrastructure.
TechEchelon Staff · 133 DAYS AGO
The NHTSA has opened a special crash investigation after a Tesla Model 3 struck a home in Katy, Texas, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. The driver told authorities he was using Tesla's partially automated driving systems at the time.
Sara Montes de Oca · 134 DAYS AGO
Alphabet shares fell nearly 6% on Monday after senior Google DeepMind researcher John Jumper and Google engineering VP Noam Shazeer announced departures for rivals, highlighting mounting AI talent competition.
Jay Goldberg · 134 DAYS AGO
SpaceX struck a computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI worth up to $6.3 billion, while its stock fell 9% on Monday, marking a third straight day of losses following a record IPO debut on June 12.
Marc Sabatini · 134 DAYS AGO
Chevron and Microsoft have signed a 20-year natural gas supply agreement for Project Kilby, a planned 2.7-gigawatt data center in West Texas's Reeves County expected to begin receiving power in 2028.
Sara Montes de Oca · 134 DAYS AGO
Tencent has begun a small-scale test of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded inside WeChat, as the company looks to compete with Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other rivals in China's intensifying AI market.
Jay Goldberg · 134 DAYS AGO
A shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips is squeezing the four major hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta — driving up AI infrastructure costs while memory and storage stocks surge 41% over the past month.
Sara Montes de Oca · 135 DAYS AGO
Apple's iOS 27 distributes artificial intelligence across eight features built into existing apps, including a bill-splitting tool in Apple Cash, automated password updates, and natural-language Shortcuts — with a public release expected this fall.
Sara Montes de Oca · 135 DAYS AGO
Apple's iOS 27 will bring a range of AI-powered features to iPhone this fall, including receipt-based bill splitting in Apple Cash, autonomous password updates, and smart notification grouping in the Home app — all running through Apple Intelligence.
Sara Montes de Oca · 135 DAYS AGO
Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, the latest departure to rock Alphabet's AI research division amid an intensifying industry-wide talent war.
Sara Montes de Oca · 136 DAYS AGO
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has made four music datasets — containing as many as 12 million tracks and used to train AI models — fully searchable by the public, revealing that artists from Lady Gaga to Radiohead appear in AI training pipelines.
Sara Montes de Oca · 136 DAYS AGO
Reliance Industries unveiled Jio Call Agent, an AI phone assistant for its 500 million-plus subscribers, alongside a home display device and sector-specific AI tools, while disclosing that Jio Platforms' board has approved a draft IPO prospectus for up to 270 million new shares.
Jay Goldberg · 136 DAYS AGO
OpenAI is hiring Google DeepMind researcher Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI official Dean Ball as the company builds out its policy and research ranks ahead of a public offering.
Jay Goldberg · 137 DAYS AGO
Amazon is investigating three engineers who testified before the Seattle City Council in support of a one-year moratorium on AI data center construction, prompting a civil rights complaint alleging the company violated a local ordinance protecting employee political speech.
Sara Montes de Oca · 138 DAYS AGO
Waymo has recalled nearly 3,900 robotaxis after 13 incidents in which vehicles entered closed freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco, marking the company's second voluntary recall in just over a month.
Sara Montes de Oca · 138 DAYS AGO
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow AI data centers and other large power users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric grid, advancing a Trump administration priority amid rising public concern over electricity costs and grid reliability.
Sara Montes de Oca · 138 DAYS AGO
A new study by climate risk analytics firm First Street finds that 79% of global data center capacity is exposed to acute climate hazards including flooding, extreme winds, and wildfires, with the Asia-Pacific region carrying the highest share of risk.
Sara Montes de Oca · 138 DAYS AGO
Allbirds rebranded to Smartbird and named Nadia Carlsten — former head of AWS's quantum computing center — as its new CEO, sending shares up 39% as the company deepens its pivot from footwear to AI infrastructure.
Sara Montes de Oca · 139 DAYS AGO
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