October 30, 2026
Amazon burns $42.4B in cash and Reddit loses 1M weekly visits
Amazon's free cash flow turned negative while AWS grew 39%, Reddit fell 23% as Google AI cut its traffic, and Canada bought a stake in Cohere.
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October 27, 2026
Meta raises $95B and AI agents walked into Anthropic in 12 hours
Meta's $95B stock sale, AI agents inside Anthropic in 12 hours, OpenAI's training goes offline, Amazon's unpowered racks and Itaú's R$2.9B AI buy.
Read the briefingOctober 16, 2026
Chip stocks shed $1 trillion in a week while TSMC posts a record 69% profit jump
AI and semiconductor stocks lost over $1 trillion in days, TSMC still reported record profit, and an obscure Chinese memory maker moved the entire market.
Read the briefingOctober 15, 2026
ASML is booked to 2030 while CoreWeave's bonds yield 15%
ASML posts a record EUR 11.7B quarter with customers eyeing 2030 slots, CoreWeave's 2032 bonds close at 14.5%, and Anthropic reports $16.8B in Q3 revenue.
Read the briefingOctober 14, 2026
Character.AI goes bankrupt and Nvidia drops to 34% of China's chip market
Disney bids $20M for what's left of Character.AI, Huawei closes in on Nvidia in China, Apple's $299 HomeView lands, and the IMF counts $1.4T in AI deals.
Read the briefingOctober 13, 2026
Character.AI goes bankrupt and Nvidia's China share falls to 34%
Character.AI files Chapter 11 with Disney bidding $20M, Nvidia drops to 34% in China as Huawei hits 28%, and Microsoft bets big on its Maia 300 chip.
Read the briefingOctober 12, 2026
Anthropic pulls its agents offline and Nadella wants an emergency brake
Anthropic cuts its agents off the live internet, Nadella calls for an AI emergency brake, Tesla renames FSD in Europe, and Cloudflare buys Deno.
Read the briefingOctober 9, 2026
Anthropic cuts Haiku's price 90% and Microsoft fits a 137B model on a laptop
Claude Haiku 5.5 falls to $0.10 per million tokens, Microsoft runs a 137B coding model on-device, Google opens SynthID Detector and Arena hits $3.1B.
Read the briefingOctober 6, 2026
OpenAI puts ads in your AI images and DeepSeek closes the gap to 3%
OpenAI tests visual ads in ChatGPT for 1.2 billion weekly users, DeepSeek hits 81.1 on LiveBench, and ex-Groq engineers sue over Nvidia's $20B deal.
Read the briefingOctober 1, 2026
The FTC opens fire on OpenAI and Anthropic, and robots can do 74% of physical work
The FTC opened a consumer-protection probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR, Anthropic found robots can do 74% of physical work, and Gemini 4 Argon shipped.
Read the briefingSeptember 16, 2026
OpenAI delays its IPO, Siri goes Gemini, and AI agents hack 395 orgs
Altman pushes OpenAI's IPO to 2027, Apple ships its Gemini-powered Siri, Nvidia's Rubin doubles Blackwell, and an AI agent swarm breaches 395 organizations.
Read the briefingSeptember 10, 2026
OpenAI claims a millennium math prize and Apple opens the 2 nm era
OpenAI says AI agents cracked Navier-Stokes, Apple unveils the 2 nm A20 Pro, Meta launches Muse, and Patagonia bids to host the next AI data centers.
Read the briefingSeptember 9, 2026
OpenAI cracks a $1M math problem and Mistral hits a €21B valuation
OpenAI claims the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize, Cognition hits $48B, Meta launches Muse, and Patagonia lures AI data centers.
Read the briefingSeptember 8, 2026
Claude cracks Fermat's Last Theorem and Europe finally reaches orbit
Anthropic's Claude formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem, OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra, and Isar Aerospace puts Europe in orbit — today's AI and tech briefing.
Read the briefingSeptember 7, 2026
Claude proves Fermat's Last Theorem and Tesla's Cybercab is already under investigation
Claude formalizes a 358-year-old theorem, OpenAI fumbles the GPT-6 Astra launch, Tesla's robotaxi draws a federal probe and Crusoe hits a $30B valuation.
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