Amazon is entering the AI chip market as a seller, with its AI chief confirming talks to supply custom Trainium3 chips to outside companies, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in the booming AI infrastructure space.
The Trump administration forces Anthropic's Claude offline after a trust-shattering dispute over the AI company allegedly sharing technology with a suspected China-linked firm, with sanctions and export controls having been under consideration for weeks prior.
Microsoft is overhauling Copilot's pricing to a usage-based model amid soaring costs from power users, while simultaneously exploring a fine-tuned, Azure-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 as a cheaper AI alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic, with a decision expected within weeks.
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to supercharge its Agentforce platform as the company battles a stock slump of over one-third in 2026 amid fears that emerging AI could disrupt its core business model.
Smart glasses sales explode 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026, with 2.25 million units shipped in a single quarter as Meta dominates with a 69.2% market share, while Google, Snap, and Chinese rivals intensify competition in a race toward mainstream adoption projected to hit 13.6 million units by year's end.
Apple has secretly embedded a multi-AI framework into iOS 27's developer beta, allowing Siri to switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but kept it hidden from WWDC due to EU regulatory pressure, OpenAI contract tensions, and a still-buggy Siri that lags behind rival chatbots by roughly six months.
Mark Zuckerberg admits Meta made mistakes during its AI-driven overhaul, following mass layoffs affecting 10% of its workforce, as the company now scrambles to rebuild morale, rehire displaced workers, and promises no further company-wide layoffs this year.
Meta is in the grip of a company-wide morale crisis, with thousands of employees calling their work 'soul-crushing,' over 1,600 signing a petition against keystroke monitoring, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting restructuring mistakes in an internal memo while promising no further mass layoffs and pledging workplace improvements.
Meta erects a strict firewall between itself and Chinese-founded AI service Manus, barring staff access to internal systems and prohibiting use of Manus tools, as a $2 billion acquisition deal collapses amid opposition from Beijing.
Meta's Applied AI unit is erupting in near-revolt as thousands of forcibly assigned engineers call the work 'soul-crushing' and compare the group to a 'gulag,' with a hijacked internal livestream descending into chaos, over 1,600 employees signing a petition against AI monitoring programs, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting the sweeping …