The bank is in early talks to hedge its exposure to loans for AI data centers via a synthetic risk transfer (SRT). This comes as banks face massive lending demands for a projected $3 trillion in data-center build-out costs through 2028.
The browser has become the latest front in the AI wars. With Atlassian’s $610 million acquisition of The Browser Company, the vision for its Dia browser to transform work is getting a major boost.
Chipmakers boast about faster NPUs every few months, but the promised revolution in on-device AI hasn’t arrived. The cloud still holds massive advantages in power and model size, leaving those powerful phone chips mostly idle. So what’s the point?
In a major shift, Micron is shutting down its entire Crucial consumer division. The company will stop shipping Crucial-branded SSDs and RAM to retailers by the end of its fiscal Q2 in February 2026. This move underscores the overwhelming pull of AI on memory supply chains.
In a surprise appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared that the company’s first AI supercomputer, the DGX-1, had no purchase orders when it launched. The sole exception was Elon Musk, who bought one for his nonprofit AI startup, OpenAI, in 2016.
The famed “Big Short” investor Michael Burry is sounding the alarm on AI stocks. He predicts a market peak is imminent, warns against passive funds, and says Palantir’s 2,100% surge is unjustified.
Google announced a slew of new features for Android 16 on Tuesday, starting with Pixel devices. The update marks a shift to more frequent releases and focuses heavily on AI organization and user customization. Several general Android and accessibility updates are also rolling out broadly.
Anthropic is launching Claude for Nonprofits this Giving Tuesday. The package offers substantial discounts, specialized training, and integrations to help hesitant organizations adopt AI tools for grant writing and operations.
Google is releasing its second Android 16 update this year, a major shift from its annual release cadence. The update brings AI-powered notification summaries and organization to Pixels first, alongside easier parental controls and more icon theming. A separate wave of app updates, including Chrome
Quantum computing uses qubits, superposition, and entanglement to solve problems classical computers can’t. We’re currently in the noisy, limited NISQ era, but the long-term potential for fields like drug discovery is huge.
