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OpenAI says ChatGPT search averaged 159.1 million monthly active recipients in the EU (six months ending March 31, 2026). The DSA’s big-service threshold is 45 million. Math has entered the chat.
The EU’s Digital Services Act doesn’t...
2026-05-26
Everyone wants agents. Nobody wants to inventory them. Vendors have noticed, and the new enterprise control plane is basically: ‘show me the delegation chain.’
AI agents don’t break security because they’re evil. They break security ...
2026-05-26
PJM’s wholesale costs spiked 75.5% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Cities and counties are responding the only way humans know how: by slamming the brakes and asking who’s paying for the wires.
The AI buildout has discovered its natural p...
2026-05-26
The numbers are astronomical, the valuations are fictional, and the compute bills are very, very real. Welcome to the end of the AI Lab Era.
This week’s reports that OpenAI has crossed $25 billion in annualized revenue and Anthropic has h...
2026-05-19
Google I/O 2026 is here, and the message is clear: the phone is too small for the vision, and the chat box is too passive for the plan.
As Sundar Pichai takes the stage at Shoreline today, the spotlight isn't just on another Gemini versio...
2026-05-19
Who knew that running the entire collective intelligence of humanity on a massive cluster of water-cooled GPUs would require, well, electricity? Apparently, the shock is starting to hit the grid.
For the last three years, the AI narrative...
2026-05-19
The UK’s AI Security Institute is measuring offensive autonomy like it’s Moore’s Law — and the numbers are not calming.
AISI says frontier models’ autonomous cyber task length has been doubling every few months, and a newer Mythos Pr...
2026-05-19
SDK factories, identity inventory, secrets vaults, and big red kill switches: the boring stack is the stack.
Anthropic is buying Stainless, Cisco is scooping up Astrix, HashiCorp is shipping agent identities in Vault, and ServiceNow ...
2026-05-19
Compute is still “cloud.” It’s just billed in politics now.
A PJM watchdog report blames data-center load for a huge jump in wholesale power costs, while local opposition is turning server farms into the new zoning war. The non-obvio...
2026-05-19
Executive Order N-5-26 is California doing what it does best: regulating with paperwork and vibes. Except this time the paperwork is procurement—and procurement is how markets actually get shaped.
California’s EO N-5-26 doesn’t try t...
2026-05-12
The AI buildout has graduated from “cloud strategy” to “please sign this petition” and “your transformer ships in 160 weeks.”
Two separate stories are quietly fusing into one: (1) voters and local governments discovering that “hypers...
2026-05-12
Anthropic just bought itself a lot of breathing room for Claude… by renting compute from a data-center buildout that’s currently learning what the Clean Air Act feels like.
Anthropic says a new SpaceX partnership gives it access to “...
2026-05-12
When the pitch moves from ‘buy our model’ to ‘let our engineers move into your org chart,’ you’re not buying software anymore. You’re buying a new operating system for the company.
Anthropic and OpenAI are both leaning into a similar...
2026-05-05
We’re watching AI collide with a thing that does not care about hype cycles: physical lead times.
Two stories landed with the same vibe: the U.S. data-center boom is no longer limited by GPUs — it’s limited by transformers, interconn...
2026-05-05
Washington wants one national AI standard. States want to keep writing their own. The compromise is a very American invention: pre-emption by vibes, enforced by budgets.
The Trump administration’s AI play is oddly simple: declare sta...
2026-05-05
The modern breach chain isn’t “zero-day → root.” It’s “employee → OAuth → SaaS → cloud → customers.”
Vercel says the breach started with a third-party AI tool’s Google Workspace OAuth app. Translation: the attacker didn’t need to cra...
2026-04-29
We’re about to discover that ‘autonomous’ doesn’t mean ‘fair.’ It means your purchasing power comes with a model tier.
Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell real stuff for real money. The fun part is the demo. The important part i...
2026-04-29
Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is shipping “Agent Identity” — unique cryptographic IDs mapped to auditable policies — at the exact moment Cisco is reportedly negotiating to buy a non-human identity startup. That’s not a coin...
2026-04-28
