Monday, Aug 31, 2026
Intel Just Bet $5.7 Billion That AI Demand Won’t Cool Off Before 2028
Intel announced a €5 billion, roughly $5.7 billion, capital investment Monday at its Leixlip campus in Ireland, aimed squarely at…
Italy’s Postman Wants to Build the Country’s AI Backbone. Seriously.
Italy has effectively chosen its national postal service to help build out the country's technology infrastructure and shore up its…
An Italian Probe-Card Maker Is Up 330%. It Might Still Be Cheap.
Technoprobe SpA, a family-controlled Italian manufacturer with more than 3,000 employees, has seen its shares surge more than 330% over…
Google Will Finally Tell You When That Ad Is Fake. Just Not All of Them
Google is rolling out a new feature meant to help people understand when an ad they're seeing on Search, YouTube,…
Zuckerberg Broke a Three-Year Social Media Silence to Hype a Coding Model
Meta publicly launched Muse Spark 1.1 on Thursday, a multimodal AI model built for agentic coding that puts the company…
OpenAI Just Called Itself Microsoft’s ‘Preferred Model.’ Nobody Asked What That Actually Means.
OpenAI used the launch of its new GPT-5.6 model family Thursday to make a specific claim about a specific partner:…
Honeywell Just ‘Doubled’ Its Profit Guidance. It Didn’t Actually Make More Money.
Honeywell Technologies raised its 2026 profit guidance Wednesday, and on paper the jump looks dramatic: full-year adjusted earnings per share…
Apple’s Biggest AirPods Assembler Just Had a Rough First Day in Hong Kong
Luxshare Precision Industry, the Chinese manufacturer that built its business assembling AirPods and iPhones for Apple, fell more than 5%…
Elon Musk Says Grok 4.5 Is ‘Opus-Class.’ The Price Tag Tells a Different Story.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, its first model launch since the company went public several weeks ago, positioning it…
A Fake Photo of a Hospitalized Mitch McConnell Went Viral. One Invisible Watermark Killed It
A photo appearing to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell in a hospital bed, covered in tubes and in visible distress,…
Truecaller Just Publicly Accused India’s Telecom Regulator of Making Spam Worse
Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala took to social media Wednesday to publicly challenge India's Telecom Regulatory Authority, accusing the watchdog of…
Jeff Bezos Just Let Outsiders Into Blue Origin for the First Time in 25 Years. It Cost Him $10 Billion
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a pre-money valuation of $130 billion, according to a New York Times DealBook…
A South Korean Chip Startup Just Chose Seoul Over Wall Street. That’s the Interesting Part
Rebellions, the Samsung-backed AI chip startup, is targeting an IPO in South Korea in the first or second quarter of…
Washington Cleared GPT-5.6 for Takeoff. OpenAI Still Isn’t Saying Who Tested It First
The U.S. Department of Commerce has cleared OpenAI for a broad release of GPT-5.6, according to an Axios report citing…
Apple Just Wrote Broadcom a $30 Billion Check. It’s Not Even About the iPhone
Apple announced Wednesday it's committing more than $30 billion to Broadcom over multiple years, the company's largest domestic manufacturing pledge…