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The math-AI fight gains its most credible voice yet, Salesforce turns its stack into an agent government layer, and a four-month-old assistant shops a $1 billion round because it ran out of compute. Terence Tao, long the optimist-in-chief for AI-assisted mathematics, now argues the
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Oracle's quarter was the strongest argument yet that AI infrastructure demand is not a bubble story on its own numbers — and the stock still owes its future to a single customer. The software giant reported fiscal Q1 results on Thursday with cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% year over
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Adobe beat on revenue, more than doubled its AI-first recurring revenue, and still watched the stock slip. The disconnect is worth reading closely, because it tests a question every incumbent software company is now facing: does AI show up as growth, or as the reason customers expect to pay
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Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report argues the moat that separated hobbyist criminals from nation-state hacking teams — headcount, patience, infrastructure — has collapsed, and it backs the claim with a list of operations its own models nearly powered. Individual hackers are now sustaining cyber campaigns that would have required
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Two money stories lead a heavy AI news day: Washington may become a direct lender to the AI cloud buildout, and a defense-AI startup just doubled its valuation in three months. The Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to Fluidstack, the neocloud that has become one
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Microsoft's data center footprint is about to get unrecognizable. According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the plans, the company intends to expand its global data center capacity from roughly 12 gigawatts today to more than 38 GW by 2032 — an addition of about 26 GW,
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Slack is blurring the line between chat and the BI tool. Slackbot can now build interactive dashboards and reports inside your Slack chats. The feature, called Slackforce Surfaces, lets anyone in a workspace ask Slackbot for a tool in plain language — say, an arcade-themed visualization of AI token usage
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California put a hard rule on AI chatbots today: when a minor's conversation signals self-harm, the company has to tell the parents. And in a new threat-intelligence report, Anthropic showed what the harvest looks like when nobody's watching the front door — 151 million Claude
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Two days after the full-duplex voice model hit the API and a day after ChatGPT went free for 23 million US public servants, OpenAI is handing developers its agent machinery. The company introduced the Agents API in public beta: a managed service that exposes the same harness and infrastructure
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Meta's consumer agent is climbing the charts — but the pace says more than the rank. Also today: IDScan confirms the breach behind 153 million stolen license scans, and Qualcomm says the next Snapdragon runs 30B-parameter models on the phone. Meta's consumer agent Muse has reached
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OpenAI hit the one problem every other subscription business dreams of — too many people willing to pay — and responded by telling new customers to wait. Two days after the most hype-heavy launch window in the company's history, the $200 Pro tier is closed to new sign-ups,
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OpenAI picked a new vertical, the bank for central banks picked a fight with the AI capex boom, and Wall Street is bracing for the biggest IPO window in years. Three stories, one theme: AI and money are now the same conversation. OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a