For years, law enforcement could effectively walk up to a tech company and ask, "Who was standing inside this rectangle on the map last Tuesday?" — and actually get an answer. The Supreme Court just looked at that cozy arrangement and…

There's a certain irony in building the world's smartest machines and then watching your smartest humans stroll out the door. Google is currently living that irony in glorious high definition, and its exit interviews must be absolutely brut…

Remember when naming an AI model just meant bolting a bigger number onto the box? OpenAI apparently got bored of that and raided a planetarium gift shop instead. Meet Sol, Terra, and Luna — the new GPT-5.6 family — and yes, one …

Few phrases ruin an IT team's weekend faster than "CISA says patch by Sunday." It's the cybersecurity equivalent of your landlord texting "we need to talk" at 11pm. This time the culprit is a Splunk Enterprise flaw that skipped straight pas…

Venture capitalists adore telling founders to "get their hands dirty." It is considerably rarer for one to put down the term sheet, roll up his own sleeves, and actually go run the company. Chamath Palihapitiya just did exactly that.$135 Mi…

Remember when launching an AI model just meant a slick demo video and a waitlist? Those were simpler, more innocent times. As of late June, shipping a frontier model in the United States increasingly looks like clearing customs — with the g…

In the schoolyard of Big Tech, the cool kid is usually happy to share the GPUs. Not this time. Google reportedly looked at Meta's request for more Gemini compute, did some quick arithmetic, and responded with the corporate equivalent of "yo…

For about a decade, NVIDIA's real superpower hasn't been silicon — it's been software. CUDA is the velvet rope outside the hottest club in tech, and every AI developer on Earth has been politely waiting in line to get in. On June 24, Qualco…

When someone bets $648 billion on a single idea, it's worth asking what they see that the rest of us don't. Samsung just slid a tenth of a trillion-dollar wager onto the table, and the idea behind it is blunt: the AI boom is not a fad, and …

Most product launches dream about going viral. OpenAI's newest model launched with the opposite energy: a velvet rope, a clipboard, and a government-approved guest list. GPT-5.6 is here — assuming you're on the list, which you're almost cer…