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AWS Signs On With Vibe-Coding Startup Superblocks, and the Message to Big Tech Is Clear
Amazon Web Services is helping Superblocks bring 'vibe coding', the art of building apps by describing them in plain English, into the locked-down private clouds of major companies. It's a small deal with a loud signal.
Five million people rank AI designs so machines can learn what looks good
A startup called Intelligence has raised $7.9 million to run a platform where ordinary users vote on AI-generated images and websites, and the data it collects is already worth $60 million a year to the companies that build AI models.
A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.
Apple's Tim Cook calls on-device AI a 'competitive weapon' as rivals pour billions into data centres
On his last earnings call as CEO, Cook argued that running AI directly on iPhones and Macs gives Apple an edge that no amount of cloud spending can easily copy.
SK Hynix surges 25%, Samsung jumps 20% as AI spending fears evaporate overnight
Blowout cloud results from Amazon and Microsoft sent Asian chip stocks soaring on Friday, wiping out a week of losses driven by fears that AI investment was running ahead of reality.
Big Tech Is Spending Hundreds of Billions on AI. So Far, Almost Nobody Is Making Money From It
Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon all reported their latest financial results this week. The picture is complicated: enormous AI spending, thin returns, but millions of new users and a few signs the bets might pay off.
This AI Video Startup Pays the Artists It Learns From. There's a Catch.
Pippa wants to be the ethical face of AI-generated video by cutting artists in on the profits. But its tech still runs on scraped artwork, and its payments work out to fractions of a cent.
Chinese chip firm CXMT soars 466% on debut, rattling Western AI investors
A single stock market listing in Shanghai sent shockwaves through the global chip industry last week. Here is what happened and why it matters.
Microsoft soars, Meta sinks: AI spending is splitting Big Tech in two
Both companies are pouring billions into artificial intelligence. One set of investors cheered. The other hit sell.
Zuckerberg Wants to Sell Spare AI Computing Power, But Admits Meta Doesn't Know How Yet
Meta is sitting on enormous computing capacity and getting premium offers to lease it out. Zuckerberg says he's tempted, but selling too much now could kneecap the company's own AI plans.
Reddit's CEO Takes Aim at Google's AI Search Summaries as the Company's Stock Slides
Steve Huffman used Reddit's quarterly earnings call to question whether Google's AI Overviews feature is quietly draining traffic and value from the platform.
SK Hynix posts record profits but its shares still drop 6.5%, here's why
The South Korean memory chip maker beat almost every measure of growth, yet Wall Street wanted even more. What that tells us about AI's voracious appetite for computer memory.
India Is Finally Paying for Apps, and AI Is Getting the Lion's Share
Indian consumers spent a record $345 million on mobile apps in a single quarter. ChatGPT and Claude alone took 83% of AI app revenue. Here is what the numbers really mean.
AI startup admits tattoo-for-interview stunt was 'reckless'
LemonLime offered job interviews in exchange for permanent tattoos. Seven people took the deal. Now the company is apologising.
Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.