Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company’s massive AI spending isn’t worth the money. With the company’s latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a little. The takeaway: Google’s cloud business — driven largely by enterprise AI adoption — is booming. The search giant saw Google Cloud revenue spike 82% … Devamını oku

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying that sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller model learns from the outputs of a … Devamını oku

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also joined the funding round, re-connecting Kalanick with the company he founded — and … Devamını oku

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects. The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to “support a leaner, more focused operating model” as it concentrates on its AI Work Platform. Monday.com … Devamını oku

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled . The first salvo in OpenAI’s spending spree will be a $20 billion data … Devamını oku

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity , arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There’s talk that the Trump administration might try to ban them (though it hasn’t yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, proprietary model makers, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic, appear increasingly … Devamını oku