Intel reports explosive Q2 2026 revenue of $16.1 billion, a 25% surge fueled by a 59% jump in data center sales driven by AI demand, yet shares are falling Friday despite the massive earnings beat and strong Q3 guidance.
Yelp partners with OpenAI to bring real-time local reviews and business data directly into ChatGPT, a bold distribution bet that echoes — and risks repeating — the company's complicated and ultimately adversarial history with Google.
Viktor, an AI employee built for Slack and Microsoft Teams, slashes agent thread costs by 81.8% on Claude Opus 4.8 through a prompt caching architecture that drops a 40-step thread from $11.35 to just $2.07 by keeping prefixes byte-stable, treating threads as append-only logs, and timing cache compaction strategically around …
Google's Gemini AI surges to 950 million monthly users as Alphabet reports a massive 24% revenue jump to $119.8 billion in Q2 2026, signaling powerful momentum in the intensifying AI race.
World Monitor launches a powerful AI-driven global intelligence dashboard offering real-time news from 500+ feeds, 56 interactive map layers, finance tracking across 29 stock exchanges, and support for 25 languages — all open-source with 63,900 GitHub stars and fully deployable locally without API keys.
Ramp cuts AI costs by over 25% using a real-time LLM routing system powered by Thompson Sampling and adaptive algorithms that intelligently shift traffic between models based on live latency, failure rates, and cost — with an additional 30% savings achieved on its largest streaming workload.
OpenAI launches a 'Useful Intelligence per Dollar' framework, offering businesses a four-dimension scorecard to measure AI value beyond token costs, debuting alongside GPT-5.6, which sets a new coding benchmark record while using 54% fewer output tokens than competing models.
Ramp launches a free AI Token Spend Management dashboard, giving finance teams unified visibility and control over AI costs across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini, with features like anomaly alerts and model optimization already saving some businesses thousands per month.
Vercel opens its AI Gateway leaderboard data to the public under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, enabling free commercial use of model, lab, app, and provider performance data via daily-updated CSV downloads and a public API endpoint.
Kalshi launches a GPU forward curve tool that maps future computing power prices using prediction market contracts, positioning compute as a major financial commodity alongside CME Group and ICE as AI infrastructure demand drives projected data center spending into the trillions.