An AI lab worth potentially $900 billion just teamed up with the world's biggest private-equity firms — not to raise money, but to build a consulting business that could eat McKinsey's lunch.
China just blocked Meta from buying an AI startup that isn't even Chinese anymore — a $2bn shot across Silicon Valley's bow weeks before Trump and Xi sit down to talk.
Two hundred years ago, only 12% of adults could read — and as literacy spread, human brains physically rewired. AI may be the next rewiring, except it's happening at warp speed.
A 109-year-old Japanese company famous for high-tech toilets just became one of the year's hottest AI stocks — without making a single chatbot, GPU, or data center.
An AI model costing four cents per task is about to vaporize $2.85 billion in human labor — and the company selling that AI captures less than 1% of the value it destroys.
Sending money from Mexico to the Philippines still takes a full day and passes through up to six banks — a startup thinks it can collapse that journey to minutes using digital dollars.
Imagine if every app on your phone was as disposable as a Shein top — built in an afternoon, worn for a season, then replaced without a second thought. That world is arriving now.
Imagine cheating on a test by secretly photographing every answer the smartest kid writes — then selling your knockoff version for a tenth of the price. That's what the White House just accused China of doing to American AI.