Q&A with Kara Swisher on Sam Altman's determination to “do anything to make OpenAI win”, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, and more
After a year of dominating mega-deals and driving stock-market gains, the tech industry is poised for a pivotal 2026 that centers largely … X: @x_delcourt , @business , @business , and @aogarza Bluesk...
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
https://lnkd.in/... Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : You gotta spend money to lose money [embedded post] Mark Riedl / @markriedl : I thought people were supposed to pay AI companies for their serv...
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q3 revenue of $15.15B, vs. $14.74B est., and raises 2025 capex forecast to between $91B and $93B, after projecting $85B in July
The search company reported cloud revenue … Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : No it doesn't! Google doesn't break out its AI revenue and never has. Making this assumption misleads retails investo...
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M
Doubling In Just 4 Months PYMNTS.com : Report: Perplexity in Talks to Raise Up to $1 Billion Archanarani / Verdict : Perplexity AI in talks to secure up to $1bn funding Jon Swartz / Techstrong.ai : Pe...
Sources: Microsoft chose not to exercise a nearly $12B option to buy more data center capacity from CoreWeave; OpenAI snapped up the contract last week
Jeffrey Emanuel was a little-known crypto executive and blogger … Fortune : Mistral AI CEO denies IPO plans, touts renewed focus on open source to best deeper-pocketed competitors Bluesky: Ed Zitron /...
Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization
now it's trying everything, including AI, to hold onto its paying users Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : tech company has crazy idea. Analysts say “company is insane” and “they demand the app cos...