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Alphabet's profit soared 81% to $62.6 billion in the first quarter of 2026. Nearly half—$28.7 billion—didn't stem from search ads or cloud revenue. It came from marking up th...

AI’s Double Edge: Squeezing Young Workers While Supercharging Retiree Nest Eggs

The tech that promises to rewrite work is already doing it. Entry-level jobs vanish. Stock portfolios swell. Baby boomers cash in on AI-fueled gains just as Gen Z faces the shar...

Big Tech’s $700 Billion AI Frenzy: Gary Marcus Calls It History’s Worst Cash Burn

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft just laid bare their 2026 spending plans. Combined capital expenditures now top $700 billion, mostly funneled into AI data centers, chips,...

Warm AI Companions’ Hidden Cost: Oxford Study Reveals Friendlier Chatbots Spread More Lies and Errors

AI chatbots are getting cozier. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic push models that sound empathetic, warm. Millions turn to them for advice, therapy, companionship. But a n...

Google Workspace Hands Users the Reins on AI Meeting Notes with Granular Toggles

Google Workspace users can now pick and choose sections in AI-generated meeting notes, a move that puts fine control directly into the hands of participants during Google Meet c...

Nvidia Fuels Legora’s $5.6 Billion Push into Harvey’s Legal AI Territory

Swedish startup Legora just notched a $5.6 billion valuation. A $50 million Series D extension brought in Nvidia's NVentures and Atlassian. Total round now hits $600 million. An...

AI’s Hidden Cost: Why Accountability Must Anchor Enterprise Adoption Before Agents Run Wild

Amy Trahey noticed it first in the ads popping up after casual phone chats. Streaming suggestions that felt too precise. Voice assistants anticipating needs....

Google Brings Gemini’s Memory and Chat Import Tools to UK Users, Ending Personal Intelligence Holdout

Google's Gemini AI just got a lot stickier for British users. The company rolled out new personalisation features in the UK this week, focusing on chat history and memories rath...

Google’s Cautious Push: Ads Loom for Gemini App After AI Mode Tests

Google's top ad executive just cracked open the door to monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot. No firm timeline. No concrete formats. But Philipp Schindler, the company's chief bu...

Microsoft’s Copilot Tops 20 Million Paid Seats: Enterprise AI Hits Escape Velocity

Microsoft 365 Copilot has crossed 20 million paid enterprise seats. CEO Satya Nadella dropped the number during the company's quarterly earnings call on April 29, 2026. Skept...

Oil’s Strait of Hormuz Stranglehold Crushes AI Hype as Markets Reel

Wall Street's record rally slammed into a wall this week. Technology stocks tanked. Crude oil prices rocketed past $125 a barrel. The S&P 500 shed 0.66%. Nasdaq plunged 1.30%. A...

Nadella’s Bold Vow: Microsoft to Squeeze Every Drop from OpenAI Pact Through 2032

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn't mince words on the earnings call. 'We have a frontier model, with all the IP rights that we will have access to all the way to ’32 and we full...

Big Tech’s $700 Billion AI Betting Spree: Cloud Winners Emerge as Investors Demand Proof

Alphabet shares jumped nearly 7% after hours. Meta's plunged more than 6%. Microsoft's barely budged. All three disclosed fresh surges in capital spending on artificial intel...

Agentic AI’s Silent Assault on the Junior Job Ladder

Agentic AI doesn't announce itself with headlines of mass firings. It creeps in. Companies squeeze more from existing teams. New hires? Fewer and farther between.That'...

AWS Hypes AI Agents as Magic—But Insists Engineers Vet Every Line

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman took the stage in San Francisco on April 28 for the "What's Next with AWS" event. He unveiled OpenAI's frontier models on Amazon Bedrock. GPT...

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