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Snap is betting $3.5 billion on AR glasses that businesses can use as CEO Evan Spiegel sees a post-smartphone era

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the era of the smartphone is coming to an end—with smart glasses being the future.

By Joshua HongSeptember 18, 2026

Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool

A new ChemSec report finds most of the world’s largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data centers.

By Joshua HongSeptember 18, 2026

Goldman’s top strategist just added hard numbers to his earnings-bubble warning

Peter Oppenheimer first flagged the risk that AI stocks were riding an unsustainable earnings boom this summer. He’s done more math.

By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 17, 2026

Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

By Mia OsmonbekovSeptember 17, 2026

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Exclusive: OpenAI poaches Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to be its VP of worldwide sales

McCarthy is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s new CRO who joined less than a month ago.

By Emily ForliniSeptember 17, 2026

As Anthropic heads towards a $2 trillion IPO, some of the loudest critics are company insiders

“I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive,” wrote one researcher.

By Beatrice NolanSeptember 17, 2026

The Middle East’s female founders are on the rise. Why isn’t the funding following?

While progress has been made to address a lack of funding for MENA female-founded startups, structural hurdles in how capital is sourced and distributed still need to be overcome.

By Melissa HancockSeptember 16, 2026

Arcee AI trained four models for $20 million. Now, it’s worth $1 billion.

Arcee AI isn’t chasing OpenAI, it’s chasing China.

By Allie GarfinkleSeptember 16, 2026

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S&P kept Oracle investment grade. Its own numbers don’t support that call.

I am not opposed to credit rating agencies giving companies time to prove their business models. However, the numbers must also make sense.

By Kevin KoharkiSeptember 18, 2026

The same algorithm Gen Z fears is managing its portfolio

Either Gen Z is a generation of giant hypocrites when it comes to AI adoption, or it’s drowning in a sea of misinformation. Or maybe both.

By Catherina GioinoSeptember 18, 2026

As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing

Tech leaders are split over who should regulate advanced AI, while the Trump administration and its allies are stoking a culture war.

By Beatrice NolanSeptember 17, 2026

‘We need sufficient means of control before it is all too late’: King Charles III warns AI players on concerns of ‘existential dangers’

The British monarch gathered leaders from OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic and Google DeepMind as fears grow that AI could escape human control.

By Kelvin Chan, The Associated Press and Catherina GioinoSeptember 17, 2026

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Insilico Medicine’s Alex Zhavoronkov bets China and AI can deliver the drug industry’s next breakthrough

AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine is profitable, publicly listed in Hong Kong, and running the drug industry’s most consequential experiment.

By Nicholas GordonSeptember 18, 2026

Waymo to launch robotaxis in Singapore, its first Southeast Asia market, by 2028

Singapore is already one of the world’s most crowded AV markets.

By Angelica AngSeptember 17, 2026

Americans are so concerned about autonomous vehicles that Minneapolis is considering requiring drivers to sit inside Waymos

A proposed ordinance would require human “safety monitors” to be paid at least a minimum wage to sit in these self-driving cars.

By Sasha RogelbergSeptember 16, 2026

Inside the Ukrainian drone factories prototyping the free world’s next arsenal

They are completely unshackled from traditional defense procurement cycles that dictate things must take three years.

By Matt HigginsSeptember 17, 2026

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