President Donald Trump abruptly postponed a major artificial intelligence executive order on Thursday after intense pressure from Silicon Valley leaders who warned the proposal could slow innovation and weaken America’s competitive advantage against China. The move came just hours before a planned White House signing ceremony that would have included executives from some of the world’s largest AI companies, highlighting the growing influence of the tech industry over U.S. AI

Spotify is making a bigger move into artificial intelligence with new tools designed to turn prompts, personal information, and connected apps into private audio experiences. The company is launching Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app that lets users create AI-generated podcasts, daily briefings, and playlists using simple chatbot-style prompts. This shows Spotify is not just trying to be a place where people listen to music and podcasts, but also a platform whe

Anthropic’s acquisition of Stainless marks another important step in the growing competition around AI developer tools and agent connectivity. As AI moves beyond simple chatbots and into agents that can complete tasks, connect to business systems, and interact with outside software, the tools that help developers build those connections are becoming more valuable. Stainless, founded in 2022 by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray, specializes in generating software development

A California jury has ruled in favor of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a closely watched legal battle brought by Elon Musk, ending one of the most dramatic courtroom clashes in the history of the artificial intelligence industry. The federal jury in Oakland found that Altman, OpenAI, company president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft were not liable for Musk’s claims that they had betrayed OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission for personal and commercial gain. After less than two hours o

Cisco is making a major shift toward artificial intelligence, even as it reports some of its strongest financial results in years. The networking technology giant announced that it is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs, representing less than 5% of its workforce, while also reporting record quarterly revenue and stronger-than-expected earnings. The move shows how major tech companies are increasingly restructuring around AI, even when their overall business performance remains strong.

Qualcomm’s stock took a sharp hit as the semiconductor sector pulled back from a powerful artificial intelligence-driven rally. Shares of Qualcomm dropped more than 11%, marking the company’s worst trading session since 2020. The decline came as investors moved away from riskier growth stocks after a hotter-than-expected inflation reading raised concerns about interest rates and market valuations. The selloff also affected several other chip companies, with Intel falling 7%,

TELUS is moving forward with a major expansion of Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure through a proposed cluster of artificial intelligence data centres in British Columbia. The project, developed with the Government of Canada and Westbank, is part of the federal Enabling Large-Scale Sovereign AI Data Centres initiative. Its goal is to give Canadian businesses, researchers, startups, public institutions, and government organizations access to powerful AI computing systems wh

Datadog’s latest earnings report has sent a strong message across Wall Street: the artificial intelligence boom is creating clear winners in the software industry, especially among companies that support the infrastructure behind AI systems. The cloud monitoring company saw its stock surge more than 30% after reporting stronger-than-expected results and raising its guidance for the year. The jump marked one of Datadog’s biggest single-day gains since going public and showed i

Ian Crosby is returning to the accounting software world with a bold new startup called Synthetic, a company built around the idea of a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper. Crosby, who previously co-founded Bench Accounting in 2011 and later launched Teal in 2023, is now taking his third major attempt at improving business accounting. This time, his goal is even more ambitious: creating an AI system that can complete bookkeeping and generate accrual-based financial reports without

Anthropic’s Claude is quickly moving beyond the idea of a simple chatbot and toward a future where AI can understand a person’s work, habits, and needs before they even ask for help. Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, recently explained that the next major step for AI assistants will be “proactivity.” Instead of only responding when users type a prompt, future AI systems could recognize patterns, set up automations, and help with tasks before user

Amazon is making a major shift in its artificial intelligence shopping strategy by moving away from its Rufus chatbot and putting Alexa at the centre of the company’s online shopping experience. The new tool, called Alexa for Shopping, brings Amazon’s AI assistant directly into Amazon.com, the Amazon app, and Echo Show devices. Instead of using a separate chatbot, shoppers will now be able to ask questions, compare products, set alerts, and complete certain shopping tasks thr

Google is taking a major step into the future of personal computing with the launch of Googlebook, a new category of laptops built around Gemini Intelligence. More than 15 years after introducing Chromebook as a cloud-first laptop, Google is now rethinking laptops for an AI-first world. Instead of focusing only on apps, browsers, and operating systems, Googlebook is designed to act more like an intelligent assistant that can understand context, help with tasks, and connect mo

Digg is returning once again, but this time it is taking a very different approach from its earlier comeback attempt. The once-popular link-sharing site, originally founded by Kevin Rose in 2004, is now being redesigned as an AI-focused news aggregator. Instead of trying to directly compete with Reddit as a community forum, the new Digg is focused on helping users sort through the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence and identify the stories, voices, and conversations

SoftBank has injected $457 million into Graphcore, the British AI chip company it acquired in 2024, as the Japanese investment giant continues expanding its role in artificial intelligence infrastructure and hardware. The funding was confirmed by Graphcore after a Companies House filing showed the company issued a single share valued at $457 million on April 10. The investment is part of SoftBank’s larger push to build the technology needed for the next generation of AI syste

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, and Google’s latest findings show that AI-powered hacking is no longer just a future concern. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says criminal groups and state-linked actors are already using commercial AI models to make cyberattacks faster, more advanced, and easier to scale. The findings have raised concerns among governments, technology companies, and cybersecurity experts about how powerful AI systems could be use

The Golden Globes are making one thing clear for the future of Hollywood awards: artificial intelligence can support a film or television project, but it cannot replace the human performers and creators at the centre of it. Organizers announced new AI guidelines stating that performances mainly generated or created by artificial intelligence will not be eligible for Golden Globe consideration. The rule does not ban AI completely, but it draws a clear line between using AI as

Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to give the U.S. government early access to their newest artificial intelligence models before they are released publicly. The agreement was announced by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, known as CAISI. The goal is to let government researchers examine powerful AI systems ahead of public launch so they can better understand possible security risks, weaknesses, and national security co

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones believes the artificial intelligence-driven bull market still has more room to grow, even as he warns that the eventual ending could bring a sharp correction. Speaking on CNBC, Jones said the current AI boom reminds him of earlier technology revolutions, including Microsoft’s early rise in the 1980s, the launch of Apple II, and the commercial internet wave of the mid-1990s. In his view, AI is still in the early stages of a major

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back against growing fears that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs, arguing instead that AI is creating a large new wave of work. Speaking at a Milken Institute event with MSNBC’s Becky Quick, Huang said AI should be seen as a job creator and a major opportunity for the United States to rebuild its industrial strength. His comments come at a time when many workers, especially younger and entry-level employees, are worried about how qu

Coinbase is cutting 14% of its workforce as CEO Brian Armstrong pushes the company to become leaner, faster, and more focused on artificial intelligence. The layoffs are expected to affect about 700 employees, based on the company’s reported workforce size of 4,951 at the end of 2025. Armstrong said the decision comes as Coinbase faces two major pressures at once: a weaker crypto market and the rapid rise of AI tools that are changing how companies operate. In a letter to emp