AI
Google I/O 2026: Gemini Is Now Your Personal Agent. You Didn't Get a Vote.
Google announced a tidal wave of AI features at I/O 2026. The through-line: a helpful, proactive, 24/7 presence that has very kindly agreed to never leave you alone.
Launch
Google Retired the Chromebook, Renamed It ‘Googlebook,’ and Expects You to Be Excited
Google announced the death of the Chromebook this week — they just didn’t say ‘death.’ They said ‘Googlebook.’ The cursor wiggles now.
AI
OpenAI Launched a Consulting Firm. The AI Was Not Consulted.
OpenAI built the AI. Now they've built a consulting firm to explain it. They named it 'the OpenAI Deployment Company.' McKinsey signed on.
AI
OpenAI Is Sharing Its Cyber Weapon With Europe—and Would Like a Gold Star for Not Being Anthropic
Sam Altman called Anthropic’s AI secrecy “fear-based marketing.” Then he did the same thing. Now OpenAI wants credit for being the generous one.
Big Tech
Elon Musk Called Anthropic Evil — Then Leased Them His Entire Supercomputer
In February, Musk called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil.” In May, he handed them 220,000 GPUs, cleared them on his evil detector, and signed a receipt.
AI
GPT-5.5 Instant: Now with 52.5% Fewer Hallucinations, Zero Gratuitous Emojis, and Full Access to Your Gmail
OpenAI's new default ChatGPT model is smarter, less emoji-addicted, and reading your inbox. Progress!
Big Tech
OpenAI and Anthropic Both Invented the Same Company This Morning. Palantir Wants Royalties.
Two rival AI labs. One identical idea. Announced hours apart. Enterprise AI’s great leap forward looks suspiciously like a group project where nobody checked the shared doc.
Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year. When Asked About the ROI, He Called It a “Very Technical Question.”
Meta smashed every earnings estimate, hiked its AI spending to $145 billion, and watched the stock drop 8% anyway. Zuckerberg’s explanation for the return on all that investment? “That’s a very technical question.”
Earnings
Big Tech Beat Earnings. Then AI Handed Wall Street the Receipt.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft all showed real AI demand. The catch is that the boom now comes with a data center invoice attached.
AI
Washington Banned Anthropic for Refusing Killer Robots. The NSA Didn’t Get the Memo.
The U.S. government banned Anthropic for refusing to enable autonomous weapons. Then the NSA started using the banned AI anyway. Now there are “table reads.”
Big Tech
Microsoft and OpenAI Are Now 'Official but Non-Exclusive.' The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral.
After five years of exclusivity, Microsoft and OpenAI just announced an open relationship. They also buried the clause about what happens when AI becomes smarter than us. No big deal.
Big Tech
OpenAI Drops GPT-5.5 Seven Weeks After 5.4. The Previous Four Were Just Practice, Apparently.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 — its "smartest and most intuitive model yet" — seven weeks after saying the same about 5.4. This time they mean it.