Key Takeaways: Warnings about artificial intelligence are getting louder, but capital spending and enterprise deployment continue to move in the opposite direction. As Alan Kohler has observed, the technology buildout is charging ahead despite unresolved questions about safety, accountability, and economic impact.
Key Takeaways: The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism plans to spend $10 million by the end of 2027 supporting artificial intelligence coverage at mainstream and independent news outlets. The commitment represents a notable injection of specialized funding at a time when AI is becoming a larger business, political,
Key Takeaways: Chen Tianqiao launched California-based AI startup MiroMind last year with an unusually distributed operating model. Its teams in Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai are working across jurisdictions that offer different pools of engineering talent, computing infrastructure and data, but also increasingl
Key Takeaways: OpenAI is extending ChatGPT’s commercial role with a new visual ad format and a broader set of campaign measurement, attribution partnership, and brand-suitability capabilities. The additions signal that OpenAI wants to give marketers more familiar controls while developing an advertising model suit
Key Takeaways: The Texas Education Agency, led by Commissioner Mike Morath, helped Alpha School affiliates approach at least 10 Texas school districts about using the company’s artificial intelligence software. Houston, Fort Davis and Aldine later piloted the technology for supplemental learning, according to repo
Key Takeaways: Banking and retail buyers should compare cloud strategies against industry-specific workloads: banks need demonstrable governance and resilience, while retailers need elasticity and connected inventor...
Key Takeaways: SpaceX placed 130 payloads into orbit on October 1 aboard its Transporter-18 rideshare mission, giving Google an orbital test environment for artificial intelligence hardware while carrying spacecraft for a broad mix of commercial and institutional customers. The mission lifted off from Vandenberg S
Key Takeaways: AMD is reaching beyond chips with a deal that places advanced AI model research much closer to its hardware, software, and systems engineering. The company announced a definitive agreement on September 28, 2026, to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, for appro
Key Takeaways: Apollo has raised a fresh concern for the banking industry: AI agents could make deposit flight faster, broader, and considerably more automated. Rather than waiting for customers to compare rates and manually transfer money, an agent could continuously scan available products and move cash toward a
Key Takeaways: Instinct has raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation, a striking vote of confidence in personal AI agents and one of the clearest signs yet that investors expect the technology to become a major computing interface. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue participated in the