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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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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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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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White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on American models to do it. Kratsios directs the White House Office of Science and […]

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Warren accuses AI firms of using trade deals to escape oversight

Senator Elizabeth Warren has accused the biggest AI companies of trying to write their own regulatory ceiling into a trade agreement, using the machinery of US trade policy to lock in limits on oversight that Congress has so far declined to grant them. The accusation, reported by Reuters on July 23, extends a fight the Massachusetts Democrat […]

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Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school

Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the American military, and the company donated it […]

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Trump reports about $1.4bn in crypto income as digital assets eclipse property

Donald Trump earned about $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, according to the annual financial disclosure his administration filed with the US Office of Government Ethics on June 30, making digital assets the single largest source of income during his first full year back in the White House. The 927-page filing, released to the […]

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