Artificial Intelligence
Google drew bipartisan criticism after announcing that K-12 schools using its software suite would lose access to Search unless they opted in to AI tools like Gemini, with Senator Bernie Sanders calling the policy "extortion" and former FTC Chair Lina Khan citing antitrust concerns.
Jay Goldberg · 11 HR AGO
Artificial Intelligence
Meta's ad revenue grew 26% in the third quarter while Google's search division posted just 12% growth, the widest gap in Meta's favor since 2021, as AI chatbots erode search habits and Meta's AI targeting tools drive advertiser returns.
Jay Goldberg · 4 DAYS AGO
Artificial Intelligence
Santander, Novartis, Standard Chartered, Meta, and Alphabet are among the companies reporting measurable AI-driven financial gains in the third quarter, as corporate AI spending surpassed $581.7 billion in 2025 and public opposition to data center expansion grows ahead of U.S. midterm elections.
Jay Goldberg · 4 DAYS AGO
Politics
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg adopted President Trump's preferred "super intelligence" terminology on their latest earnings calls, while the CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet continued using "AI" despite the White House push to retire the term.
Sara Montes de Oca · 4 DAYS AGO
Artificial Intelligence
Google's Suncatcher prototype satellite — carrying a single Tensor Processing Unit and running DeepMind's Gemma 4 — has completed its commissioning phase and begun active operations in orbit, marking the first time an AI model has run inference workloads on a space-based data center.
Sara Montes de Oca · 5 DAYS AGO
Business & Finance
Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon reported negative free cash flow this earnings season as AI infrastructure spending mounts, leaving Microsoft as the only hyperscaler still generating positive cash returns amid intensifying investor concern.
TechEchelon Staff · 6 DAYS AGO