AWS WAF launches a groundbreaking AI traffic monetization tool that lets website owners charge AI bots for content access directly at the network edge, as AI bot traffic surges past 50% of web traffic — up over 300% year-over-year — with payments collected in stablecoins via Coinbase's x402 Facilitator at …
ErdosBench launches as a new benchmark challenging AI systems to tackle complex Erdős-style mathematical research problems, featuring a public smoke test with 14 problems and a full private corpus of 226 problems with blind evaluation tools.
Tech layoffs surge to a two-year high with nearly 40,000 cuts as AI takes the blame for a third straight month, while a small circle of AI insiders mint billions through IPOs and skyrocketing valuations — sparking comparisons to post-2008 inequality backlash and warnings of an even more volatile public …
Google Cloud launches the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral, open specification that standardizes how AI systems share metadata and curated knowledge using simple markdown files with YAML frontmatter, requiring no proprietary tools, with reference implementations and full code now available on GitHub.
SpaceX makes history with the largest IPO ever, surging 19% to close at $161 per share and hitting a $2 trillion valuation, driven by its $250 billion xAI acquisition and orbital AI data center plans, even as critics warn a massive AI valuation bubble may be forming in real time.
Oracle shares plunge up to 11% as the tech giant reveals plans to raise $40 billion in debt and equity financing amid a staggering $23.7 billion in negative free cash flow, spooking investors despite a strong earnings beat with revenue surging 21% to $19.18 billion and capital expenditures skyrocketing 162% …
As AI spending rockets toward $2.6 trillion in 2026, enterprises are abandoning reckless 'tokenmaxxing' in favor of smarter, cost-conscious AI usage, with a rising 'tokenminning' movement pushing companies to swap expensive frontier models for leaner, cheaper alternatives.
Global AI spending is surging toward $2.59 trillion by 2026, a 47% year-over-year increase, as AI models lead growth at 110%, yet enterprises remain stuck in tactical, incremental investments while hyperscalers dominate transformative AI infrastructure spending.
Databricks launches OpenSharing under the Linux Foundation as a vendor-neutral open standard for secure data and AI collaboration, backed by major players including OpenAI, SAP, and Stripe, expanding cross-platform support for AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data sharing across organizations.
Microsoft is cutting up to 400 Azure cloud jobs in China, with employees in Beijing and Shanghai losing their roles on July 6 as tightening U.S. and Chinese data regulations continue to squeeze the tech giant's operations in the region.