Monday, Aug 31, 2026
Australia Is Suing Amazon Over $2.99. The Number Is Small. The Allegation Is Not.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed Federal Court proceedings against Amazon on Monday, alleging that the company’s Prime subscription…
Comcast Is Splitting in Two. The Broadband Company Doesn’t Need the Media Anchor Anymore
Comcast announced Monday morning that it will spin off NBCUniversal and its European pay-television business Sky into a separate publicly…
HP Just Became One of OpenAI’s First Global Enterprise Partners. Here Is What That Actually Means
HP Inc. announced Sunday a strategic partnership with OpenAI to integrate the Frontier platform across its operations, positioning the $57…
Kohl’s Lost 70% of Its Stock Value in Five Years. In the Past Year It Rose 130%.
Kohl’s has a CEO who took over in late 2025, a stock that has rebounded more than 130% in the…
Masayoshi Son Has a Point About Orbital Data Centers. He Also Has $500 Billion Invested in the Competition
Masayoshi Son told shareholders at his mobile unit’s annual meeting on June 23 that Elon Musk’s vision for orbital AI…
OpenAI Just Hired Apple’s Vision Pro Chief. The Smart Glasses Race Has a New Player
Paul Meade, Apple’s vice president who led the Vision Products Group – the team responsible for Vision Pro hardware engineering,…
Swatch Is Asking a London Court for $170 Million. Samsung Says the Whole Thing Is Overblown
Swatch Group is seeking $170 million in damages from Samsung Electronics in an ongoing damages hearing at the London High…
YouTube Shorts Is Taking the Dislike Button Away and Giving You 2x Speed. One of Those Is Viewer-First
YouTube announced Thursday a batch of updates to its Shorts player that arrive in the same release and serve very…
SoftBank -13%. Apple -6%. MacBooks Are Getting More Expensive. The AI Bill Has Arrived
Asian technology stocks extended a Wall Street selloff on Friday that produced some of the most dramatic single-day declines among…
Italy Just Described What Microsoft Did to Its 365 Customers. Australia Did the Same. So Did Switzerland.
Italy’s Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, the national antitrust watchdog, opened a formal investigation on Friday into Microsoft…
The Government Just Approved AI Models Customer by Customer. Nobody Voted on That.
OpenAI’s release of GPT 5.6, its newest frontier model, will proceed in a way that has never happened before in…
GM Just Added $675 Million to Its Brazil Plan. The Word ‘Hybrid’ Explains the Whole Thing
General Motors announced on Wednesday it will invest an additional 3.5 billion reais, approximately $675 million, in Brazil, expanding its…
Troy Hunt Built a Site to Shame Password Users in 2017. He Just Did the Same Thing Again
Cybersecurity researchers Scott Helme and Troy Hunt launched whynopasskeys.com on Tuesday, a public registry that tracks and ranks the world’s…
In Ten Days Google Lost Its Transformer Co-Inventor, a Nobel Laureate, and Two Gemini Engineers
Google DeepMind has lost four prominent AI researchers to its direct competitors in ten days, and the specific accumulation of…
28.8 Million Exchanges, 25,000 Fake Accounts, and a Letter to the Senate Banking Committee
Anthropic sent a letter on June 10 to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs – addressed…