Big Tech's AI Slowdown Pact
How three rivals agreed to slow the pace of frontier AI development - and ran straight into antitrust law, a president who calls the risk a hoax, and a chip industry with no interest in braking.
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Big Tech
How Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are competing on AI — the strategy behind each acquisition, partnership and platform shift.
Apple's New Siri Runs on Google's Models
How Apple traded fifteen years of vertical-integration orthodoxy for a shipping date — and left Europe out of the launch entirely.
The DOJ Finally Reads the Acquihire Contract
How the Justice Department's Nvidia-Groq probe puts the AI industry's favourite consolidation structure on trial for the first time.
Apple's Foldable Is a Silicon Play
How the iPhone Duo's real news is not the hinge but the A20 Pro — the first high-volume phone chip on TSMC's 2nm node.
NHTSA Is Auditing How Tesla Certified the Cybercab
How Tesla's decision to self-certify a car with no steering wheel put the entire US autonomous-vehicle approval process on the table — and why Zoox already showed what happens next.
Google's Ad Tech Ruling Changes Conduct, Not Structure
How a judge who already found Google's ad-tech business illegal decided the fix was rules rather than surgery — and what that pattern means for every platform facing an antitrust case.
Nvidia's $3.5 Billion MediaTek Gambit
Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds to lock the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion standard for custom AI silicon — the latest in a pattern of Nvidia financing the very partners and customers positioned to challenge it.
Meta's Iris Chip Starts Production This Month
How an internal memo revealed Meta's plan to double its AI computing capacity to 14 gigawatts using its own silicon
Brussels Asks Publishers If Google's AI Truce Is Real
How a single questionnaire to European news publishers could decide whether Google's AI Overviews trigger another multibillion-euro fine.
Stripe's $7.5 Billion Bet on AI's Toll Booth
How Stripe turned AI model routing into its next payments rail