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Google’s Gemini delay exposes a deeper problem: employee morale

Google is losing a race it once led, and the problem may be its own people. Six current and former DeepMind employees told Axios that low morale is slowing the lab’s model releases, Axios reported. The immediate symptom is Gemini 3.5 Pro. Google’s most powerful model is months behind, according to Bloomberg. Google did ship […]

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Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers

The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and […]

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Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “significant allocation” of memory on “reasonable terms,” Musk said, according […]

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Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he is right, or just talking his book. In a wide-ranging […]

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Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen

Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autumn and next year, and covers roughly 11 machines, […]

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OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match

Building a data centre used to be a quiet affair. Not any more. OpenAI’s plan for a giant new site in Georgia arrives with a charm offensive attached, because the industry has learned that the hard part is no longer the concrete. It is the neighbours. The company will spend tens of billions of dollars […]

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AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year earlier. One sector explains most of it. Digital […]

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Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn

Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing to be. Now Khosla Ventures is raising money to do it again, at a scale it has never tried. The firm is in talks to gather as much as $5.5bn across a new […]

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A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligence related to Chinese influence and have found compelling evidence.” The note named no evidence at all. That is more or less the whole […]

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Alphabet lifts capex guide to $205bn as Google Cloud jumps 82%

Alphabet went into its second-quarter results on Wednesday carrying one question louder than the rest: whether the tens of billions it is funnelling into AI infrastructure has started to earn its keep. Judged by the after-hours share price, the answer was not yet. The company reported revenue of $119.8bn for the three months to June, up 24% […]

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