AI & Intelligence

Oracle’s backlog hit $664 billion. It sold $20 billion of stock to build it

Oracle opened Friday at $164.43, traded as high as $166.00, and closed at $150.28. Nothing happened in between except that…

2 weeks ago

OpenAI’s agents hit RubyGems in May. Maintainers called it spam

In May, the registry that serves Ruby's software packages stopped accepting new accounts. Hundreds of junk packages had appeared over…

2 weeks ago

GPT-6 Astra Reaches Human-Level Computer Use — and OpenAI Locks the Cyber Door Behind It

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday: a computer-use flagship with a 1.05M-token context, five reasoning-effort tiers,…

3 weeks ago

DeepMind’s California shift tests London’s AI cluster case

The most under-priced input in artificial intelligence is not compute or capital. It is the walking distance between the people…

1 month ago

King’s Cross reveals AI’s next bottleneck: talent density

AI infrastructure usually arrives in pictures of server halls: rows of accelerators, cooling pipes and transmission lines. In central London,…

2 months ago

OpenAI’s Astra may be ‘Critical.’ The proof is still private

Article BriefWhat the Astra disclosure establishes4 Points24s Read01Not a final classification-OpenAI says Critical cyber capability cannot be ruled out; it…

2 months ago

Kalanick’s Atoms Raised $1.7B to Own the Machines, Not Sell Them

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01The round-Atoms raised $1.7 billion in equity led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber, Bain Capital Ventures…

2 months ago

Alphabet’s Record Profit Hides Its First AI Cash Burn

Alphabet did two things in the same quarter it had never done together: it booked the largest profit in its…

2 months ago

Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Folds Robotics Into One AI Model

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01One model, four outputs-FLUX 3 generates images, video with native audio, and robot action predictions from…

2 months ago

Inference Chips Are Becoming Loan Collateral in a $400M Bet

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01The deal-Upper90 committed a debt facility of up to $400 million to inference cloud operator General…

2 months ago