The US government and the AI industry are both betting on debt. They are drawing from the same pool.
The US government and the AI industry are both betting on debt. They are drawing from the same pool.

The United States government now owes more than the country produces. Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 30 April showed that debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion at the end of March, while nominal GDP over the preceding 12…

Zuckerberg tells Meta employees the layoffs are about capex, not AI productivity
Zuckerberg tells Meta employees the layoffs are about capex, not AI productivity

At a Thursday town hall, the Meta CEO made the explicit trade-off he had previously left implicit: ‘We basically have two major cost centres in the company: compute infrastructure and people-oriented things.’ The chief people officer also declined to r…

OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one
OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one

The Norway-founded company’s vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward marks the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned this year and a competitive field that is already crowded 1X Tech…

Meta cancelled the contract with the people who saw what its glasses see
Meta cancelled the contract with the people who saw what its glasses see

In February 2026, workers at Sama, a Nairobi-based outsourcing company contracted by Meta, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that they had been reviewing footage captured by users of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The footag…

Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it
Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it

Anthropic’s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else’s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administrati…

Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model
Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model

Apple reported its best March quarter in history on Thursday, posting revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent year over year, with net profit of $29.6 billion. iPhone revenue reached a March quarter record of $58 billion, up 22 per cent, driven by wh…

OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code
OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code

Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline f…

The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts
The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts

Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. I…

OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.
OpenAI now lets you lock your ChatGPT account with a hardware key. Here is why it thinks you should.

OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account …

Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access
Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss Anthropic’s Mythos AI model with banking supervisors on Monday, according to a senior EU official. The technology that will be on the agenda is one that no government in the European Union has access to, built b…