This week
AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
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TechCrunch This month
OpenAI's entanglements with a data center company go on display in a new filing
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Business Insider Ukraine's ousted pro-tech defense minister is launching a new company backed by Palantir's Alex Karp
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Business Insider Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models
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The Next Web CEO Jensen Huang went on an AI deal spree in August. Nvidia plans to invest $18 billion more this fiscal year.
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Business Insider Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
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Simon Willison's Weblog Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at more than $30bn
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The Next Web Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever
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The Next Web Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter
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The Next Web Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops $65bn, a source says, but a run rate is not revenue
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The Next Web Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year
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Crunchbase Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
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The Next Web Don't Look Up
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Where's Your Ed At AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots
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Futurism Intel plans $15B stock offering to fund AI expansion
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Anadolu Agency English A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.
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The Next Web Jon Gray says impatience about AI returns is 'a little misplaced'
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Business Insider The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it
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Hacker News Amazon and Apple just told us more about their AI plans - here are three things we learned
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BBC Meta Struggles With Limited Returns on Its AI Spending, Social Media Legal Woes
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Gizmodo Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts
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The Next Web The AI investment gap
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TechRadar America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy
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AI News (TechForge) AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
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The Next Web Google Free Cash Flow Turns Negative Due to Massive AI Spend
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Gizmodo Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd
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The Next Web Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined
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Futurism South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall
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The Next Web Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
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Covered by 2 sources AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering
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Covered by 2 sources OCBC to lift annual tech spending above $771mn as new CEO doubles down on AI
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The Next Web Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy
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The Next Web South Korea bets $880bn to win the AI era
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The Next Web DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge
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The Next Web The BIS warns an AI bust could hit credit markets as hard as the 2008 financial crisis
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The Next Web General Atlantic wants to back China’s Kling AI at $18bn. Beijing is telling its AI firms to refuse US money.
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The Next Web OpenAI burned $3.7bn in the first quarter, The Information reports
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The Next Web Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups
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The Next Web Oracle Upsets the Market With Even More AI Spending and Debt Issuance
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Gizmodo Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5 billion from banks as AI spending continues
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Covered by 2 sources China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI
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The Next Web AI Investment Is ‘Harder to Justify’ as Productivity Returns Lag, Uber COO Says
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Gizmodo If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path | Peter Lewis
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The Guardian xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
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TechCrunch The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.
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The Next Web Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
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TechCrunch Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
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TechCrunch Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push
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The Next Web NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment
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The Next Web Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year
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TechCrunch Meta Could Spend $145 Billion This Year Due to AI
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Gizmodo The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.
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The Next Web Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.
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The Next Web Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
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The Next Web Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push
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The Next Web Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
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The Next Web Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate
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TechCrunch Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
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TechCrunch The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
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TechCrunch Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed
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