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Big Tech’s $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (544+ words) Now that the big dogs of cloud computing have all reported their quarterly earnings, we can step back and get a sense of the searing demand that AI is driving toward their businesses. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each reported hundreds…...
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 gains financial research, improved coding features
21+ hour, 20+ min ago (837+ words) It's a model-for-model battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, as the startups vie for dominance in AI coding tools. Not to be outdone by OpenAI's release today of GPT-5.2-Codex, Anthropic has released a new model that also improves its coding…...
OpenAI releases its answer to Claude Code, first AI model with “high capability” risk for cybersecurity
22+ hour, 9+ min ago (837+ words) AI agents that can write code have quickly become one of the most profitable, and competitive, applications coming from the current crop of AI startups. Anthropic's Claude Code is enjoying a moment of popularity among software engineers, and it's shoring…...
Google’s Gemini is gaining but OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the AI chatbot leader
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1052+ words) Following Alphabet's stellar earnings report Wednesday, analysts were quick to declare that the Google parent had blossomed from an AI laggard into a leader. The company posted strong revenue and profit growth, driven in part by heavy investment in artificial…...
Firefox will soon let users block AI features in its browser
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (708+ words) As Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge ramp up AI offerings, Firefox is betting people will want an off switch. When the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation launched Firefox back in 2004, its mission was to provide the online world with a secure, open…...
See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is
2+ week, 2+ day ago (776+ words) It's hard to overstate just how massive Meta's Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center site is. Use this tool to compare it to where you live. Massive. Titanic. Humongous. These words fail to capture the actual scale of Meta's Hyperion data…...
Meta says it’s delivered new AI models internally this month and they’re “very good”
2+ week, 2+ day ago (527+ words) Meta's last AI model release, Llama 4, was marred by delays and accusations of rigged benchmarks, but the company says that its latest models built by its Superintelligence Labs team look promising. CTO Andrew Bosworth told reporters at Davos that the…...
OpenAI rolls out age prediction system ahead of allowing adult content
2+ week, 2+ day ago (760+ words) OpenAI is rolling out a new "age prediction" feature for ChatGPT users. The company will look at various signals from users to predict if a user is underage. In a blog post, the company said: "The model looks at a…...
OpenAI set to start rolling out ads to free and ChatGPT Go users
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (899+ words) OpenAI says user conversations will be kept private from advertisers, and answers will not be influenced by ads. It was bound to happen at some point. OpenAI has finally disclosed the details of how it plans to roll out ads…...
Apple’s App Store reaches 850 million average weekly users
3+ week, 4+ day ago (850+ words) Apple's App Store saw an average of 850 million weekly active users at the end of 2025, up from 813 million last June, underscoring the sheer scale of its Services business even as hardware growth has slowed. The company highlighted the milestone in…...