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DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine that has spent more than a decade unable to crack Google's grip on the U.S. market, just recorded a 30% surge in installs after Google unveiled its AI-first Search overhaul at I/O — six consecutive days of double-digit growth, including across a Memorial Day weekend when the company typically sees a traffic dip.
The Vatican's recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas , arrives wrapped in the language of artificial intelligence, but its actual subject is the political economy of technological dominance.
AI coding tools are increasing code output, putting more pressure on the pipelines that test and deploy it.
ClickUp has laid off 22% of its workforce while simultaneously deploying roughly 3,000 internal AI agents, with CEO Zeb Evans framing the reduction as an aggressive bet on autonomous software rather than a cost-cutting exercise.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to close a Series H round in the range of $65 billion at a post-money valuation approaching $965 billion, according to figures circulating among investors and reported by financial press.
Waymo's robotaxi service has paused operations across at least six U.S. cities this month, a sequence of disruptions that complicates the prevailing narrative that autonomous ride-hail has crossed the threshold from experiment to infrastructure.
Equity desks treat the prospect of a US-Iran deal as an unambiguous bullish signal, oil traders treat it as a supply shock in waiting, and currency desks treat it as a reason to sell dollars.
The COO of Google Cloud spent part of last week telling executives that security cannot be bolted onto AI strategies after the fact.
Hardware businesses do not trade at software multiples.
Polsia, a one-year-old startup run solely by founder Ben Broca, recently raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation — with one employee.
It is unusual for a prediction to be half right and half wrong at the same time, but that is basically what happened in the case of John Maynard Keynes.
Spotify and Universal Music Group have struck a licensing agreement that will let Premium subscribers create AI-generated covers and remixes of UMG-catalogue songs, with revenue shared with participating artists.
