Companies, products, and big moves
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Anthropic's agentic workspace just got a browser home: the Chrome extension that used to read pages for you can now run a full Cowork session in its side panel, skills and plugins included. Anthropic's Cowork agent now runs inside the Chrome extension's side panel,
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Lin Junyang, the researcher who built Alibaba's Qwen into one of the world's most-used open model families, came out of stealth early Wednesday with a company that has no product, no demo, and a $2 billion price tag. That gap is the story. Lin Junyang,
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The AI hardware story keeps moving down the stack. This week's data from Counterpoint Research shows the shift from training to inference is now reshaping the memory market — and NAND flash makers are posting record revenue because of it. Server-grade enterprise SSDs hit 48% of all NAND
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The AI buildout's memory shortage keeps hitting every tier of hardware — this time it is the workstation GPU on your desk, not the data center. Nvidia quietly raised its flagship Blackwell card to $16,000, and a new report shows the human cost behind robot training data in
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Lenovo's fiscal first quarter produced the strongest results in the company's history, and the composition of the numbers shows AI has stopped being a story the PC giant tells and become a line item that moves the entire business. Lenovo reported record fiscal Q1 revenue of
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China's autonomous-driving leader is taking its Robotaxi playbook to freight, with the fourth-generation driverless heavy truck now rolling off the production line and a concrete fleet target for the next three years. Pony.ai's fourth-generation L4 autonomous electric heavy truck has entered mass
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The legal-AI money race just escalated: Swedish startup Legora is reportedly raising at a valuation above $10 billion, and a new Berkeley benchmark argues the industry is measuring machine learning itself all wrong. Swedish legal-AI startup Legora is seeking fresh funding at a valuation above $10 billion — roughly
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Honor has made the most literal bet yet on embodied AI: a smartphone with a motorized body, a system-level agent inside, and cinema-grade optics bolted on. It is a category-creating product launch — and the strongest signal yet that phone makers think the next upgrade cycle belongs to
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Anthropic is closing in on its largest acquisition ever, and a Hong Kong-listed speech-AI firm is pushing medical imaging models further down the clinical path. Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart AI for about $6 billion — what would be its largest acquisition yet — according to people familiar
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The startup from Google's most famous engineer, announced barely a week ago, now carries a price tag that puts it in the same league as the model labs — and the money is betting on a different game entirely. Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop is in talks to
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Apple is shopping for journalism again — but this time it isn't buying training data, it's buying a news feed. The company is in talks with publishers over multiyear content deals that would deliver current news and information through Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple unveiled at
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Two stories from the AI buildout's two most contested frontiers landed Wednesday: the power side and the data side. Fermi, the company behind the nuclear-powered Project Matador campus in Texas, ended its three-month CEO search by hiring a veteran of the nuclear industry, and publishers gained