Elon Musk’s X is officially spinning out its DMs into a standalone messaging app called ‘XChat’, and it just quietly hit the Apple App Store today. Elon Musk is finally making his move to conquer your private conversations, and he didn’t even warn us it was coming. The Quiet App Store Invasion Without a flashy … Read more
Google is reportedly bringing its Gemini AI into the Pentagon’s classified networks, but the tech giant is demanding strict bans on autonomous weapons. Google is quietly crossing a line it swore it would never touch just a few years ago. The Classified Gemini Rollout Google is currently in advanced talks with the Department of War … Read more
OpenAI has been on a spending spree. But this acquisition is different from everything else it’s done — and it tells you something important about where the company is actually headed. Today, March 19, OpenAI announced it is acquiring Astral — the company behind some of the most widely used Python developer tools in the … Read more
Google Just Spent $32 Billion on a Cybersecurity Startup. Google has been buying companies for 25 years. This is the biggest check it has ever written. $32 billion. All cash. For a cybersecurity startup that most people outside the enterprise tech world have never heard of. The deal closed this week — and it tells … Read more
Samsung Just Chose AMD Over Nvidia. Samsung just made a choice that sends a very clear message to Nvidia. Bloomberg reported today that Samsung Electronics has agreed to supply next-generation AI memory chips to AMD — a deal that positions Samsung and AMD as direct partners in the race to challenge Nvidia’s dominance over the … Read more
Nvidia Just Pulled Its Money Out of OpenAI and Anthropic. Jensen Huang just did something that made absolutely no sense on the surface. And his explanation made even less sense underneath it. Nvidia — one of the earliest and most prominent backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic — is pulling its investments from both companies. … Read more
Google Is About to Challenge Meta’s Smart Glasses. Meta had a two-year head start. Google just found a way to close that gap faster than anyone expected. Google confirmed this week it is launching its first AI-powered smart glasses in 2026 — and the partner it chose to make them says everything about the strategy. … Read more
Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are collectively spending $650 billion on AI in 2026, Big Tech Is Spending $650 Billion on AI This Year, more than the GDP of Sweden. Investors are spooked, stock prices are sliding, and nobody is pumping the brakes. Here’s what’s actually happening. $650 billion. In one year. On one thing. … Read more
Meta Is About to Fire 16,000 People , Mark Zuckerberg is spending billions on AI. Somebody has to pay for it. That somebody is apparently 16,000 Meta employees — roughly 20% of the company’s entire workforce — who are reportedly facing layoffs as Meta doubles down on its most aggressive AI spending push in company … Read more
Apple doesn’t make moves like this quietly. But this one slipped under the radar — and it shouldn’t have. Apple Just Replaced Its AI Boss — And His Replacement Comes Straight From Google John Giannandrea, the man who has run Apple’s entire artificial intelligence operation for years, is stepping down. His replacement is Amar Subramanya … Read more