MiniMax’s CEO won’t take a salary until AGI. His company just raised $2bn after an 80% crash

The letter reads like a founder’s article of faith. The share sale underneath it tells a harder story. The founder of MiniMax has told staff he will take no salary until the Chinese AI company build [...]

Alexa+ is now available nationwide, with a free text-based version for non-Prime members to try

Amazon’s next-generation AI assistant is now available to everyone in the US for $20 per month, or for free if you’re a Prime member. Amazon has also introduced a try-before-you-buy free tier for [...]

SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.6 for Long-Running Agents

SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence company formerly known as xAI, released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, a new flagship model built for long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual [...]

What AI builders can learn from fraud models that run in 300 milliseconds

Fraud protection is a race against scale. For instance, Mastercard’s network processes roughly 160 billion transactions a year, and experiences surges of 70,000 transactions a second during peak pe [...]

Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter – Interview Series

Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, [...]

Teachers are getting more comfortable using AI – but it isn't helping lower their workload

Although most teachers use artificial intelligence, only one in three say they're able to work fewer hours amid intense workloads. [...]

The people we left behind: Tech layoffs, AI hype, and a misplaced future

If you opened a tech newsletter or even the internet in early 2026 and thought you’d stepped into a dystopian screenplay, or you are the main character in one of Isaac Asimov’s writings, you would [...]

iPronics Raises $125M Series B to Scale Optical Networking for AI Data Centers

iPronics has raised $125 million in Series B funding to accelerate the commercial deployment of its programmable optical networking technology for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The round [...]

Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience

Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how organizations govern technology across their operations. As AI becomes m [...]