Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be id…

Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks
Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, …

Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them
Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for …

AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability
AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability

Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers found that access to generative AI reduced time spent o…

Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory
Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining …

Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book
Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. …

Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed
Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed

Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It …

Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a ‘public nuisance’ — OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury
Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a ‘public nuisance’ — OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury

Florida’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has now been sitting before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce for seven weeks.

Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions
Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvid…

New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time
New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time

New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Realignment Underway”, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tec…