Google killed the Chromebook. Its replacement turns your cursor into an AI agent.

  Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unvei [...]

Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” [...]

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the wor [...]

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer [...]

Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever

Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. It made a net loss of almost $42bn in 2025, five times the year be [...]

Meta says it will invest $600 billion in the US, with AI data centers front and center

Meta said on Friday that it's investing $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028. Although the announcement is light on specifics (and heavy on standard Big Tech self-congratulation), i [...]

Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment

Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fas [...]

Shein reveals slowing profits and a quarterly loss ahead of Hong Kong IPO

Shein has finally shown investors the numbers. In a draft prospectus filed on July 26, the fast-fashion retailer disclosed annual revenue of $41.8 billion for 2025, up roughly 8% on the year before, a [...]

AI is now an F1 sponsor, a strategist, and a tech director. The race weekend has changed.

Eight AI partnerships signed in six months. Williams runs Claude. McLaren runs Gemini. Red Bull runs Oracle. The 2026 regulation overhaul has turned the paddock into one of the largest live commercial [...]