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 …
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.
Perplexity's CBO Dmitry Shevelenko reveals how AI agents are transforming the workforce, why small teams will dominate the future, and which three human skills remain irreplaceable as AI takes over knowledge work.
LMCache, an open-source KV cache management layer for LLM inference, surpasses 9,100 GitHub stars as it transforms temporary GPU cache into persistent, reusable knowledge—cutting time-to-first-token and boosting throughput across major hardware vendors like NVIDIA and AMD.
Databricks open sources Omnigent, a groundbreaking meta-harness under Apache 2.0 that unifies AI agents like Claude Code and Codex into one interoperable platform, enabling real-time collaboration, dynamic security policies, and cloud sandboxing across multiple agent frameworks.
OpenRouter launches Fusion, a groundbreaking tool that combines multiple AI models into a single API call, with benchmark tests showing fused model panels outperforming every solo model — and a budget panel even beating GPT-5.5 at half the cost.
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% …
Google is investing $50 million to train over 300,000 skilled trade workers through 14 labor unions, tackling a looming crisis where 2.1 million trades jobs could go unfilled by 2030, threatening the future of AI infrastructure expansion across the U.S.
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.