CNN's Perplexity suit could push AI search toward licensing
CNN's lawsuit against Perplexity AI puts the legal future of AI answer engines in focus, and it could push the sector toward licensing deals with publishers.
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Wiwynn warns AI hardware shortages are spreading beyond memory
Wiwynn says AI shortages are spreading beyond memory chips, a sign that the build-out is running into tighter supply across networking, power and cooling hardware too.
MiniMax's revenue surge shows China's AI labs are learning to sell
MiniMax has more than doubled sales as it prepares a new model launch, showing that Chinese AI labs are starting to turn technical momentum into real revenue.
Australia's AI data center boom is turning into a new startup map
Australia's record data center investment shows AI compute is becoming a global buildout, with hyperscalers and sovereign buyers pushing capacity deeper into Asia-Pacific.
Salesforce is betting debt and buybacks can steady its AI-era story
Salesforce is leaning on debt to accelerate a 25 billion buyback as investors worry about AI disruption and softer SaaS growth. The move highlights a bigger question for legacy software: can capital returns support the stock while Agentforce matures?
MCP security flaws are turning AI infrastructure into a supply-chain risk
Fresh disclosures in vLLM and MCP tooling are pushing AI teams to treat open-source inference and agent middleware as a supply-chain risk, with patches already available for some affected versions.
Italy's 200% data center tax puts farmland politics ahead of AI expansion
Italy is moving to tax data centers built on agricultural land at 200%, a sharp sign that Europe's AI infrastructure boom is running into land-use resistance.
Salesforce's guidance miss shows AI agents are pressuring SaaS sooner than expected
Salesforce's latest outlook fell short of expectations even as Agentforce gains traction, intensifying a bigger debate over whether AI agents are starting to erode seat-based SaaS economics.
SOND exits stealth with a sleep product built on Bose veterans
SOND has exited stealth with 7 million in funding and a sleep product built by former Bose sleep executives, entering a crowded market that now prizes real intervention over passive tracking.
Former Google and Apple researchers back AI's missing feedback layer
Trajectory, founded by former Google and Apple researchers, is betting that AI's next big infrastructure layer is feedback, not bigger models.
SoFi's stablecoin push puts a bank charter at the center of crypto
SoFi has launched SoFiUSD inside its consumer app, putting a bank-issued stablecoin in front of nearly 15 million members and sharpening the challenge to Circle and other issuers.
OpenAI's ad push could finally put Google's core search ads at risk
OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT and early advertiser traction makes the experiment a real threat to Google's search-ad dominance if user queries migrate to AI assistants.
ByteDance is preparing a huge AI spending surge as China races for compute
ByteDance is reportedly weighing AI capex of as much as 70 billion dollars, a sign it wants to match the scale of US hyperscalers while leaning harder on Chinese chips and data center buildouts.
UK sanctions HTX as pressure on Russia-linked crypto ramps up
Britain's sanctions on HTX show how quickly a crypto exchange can move from growth story to compliance risk, especially when Russia-linked counterparties enter the picture.
SK Hynix turns AI memory into a trillion-valuation story
SK Hynix has become a trillion-valuation story as AI demand turns HBM memory into a strategic bottleneck, putting pressure on Samsung and Micron.
Young people are no longer treating crypto as the fastest path to cash
Crypto is still part of how young people chase returns, but it is no longer the automatic answer. Gen Z is now splitting its attention across prediction markets, sports wagering and other speculative assets.
