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Chime Weighs Adding Stablecoin Wallet to Consumer Banking App

Chime Financial is considering adding stablecoins as a feature in its consumer banking app, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. The FinTech asked blockchain technology companies to submit proposals to provide stablecoin wallet services that would enable Chime customers to send and receive the digital assets without needing a separate account or another […]
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Life Sciences Just Became AI’s Hottest Sector — And the Numbers Prove It

The AI sentiment landscape shifted dramatically in May, with life sciences and healthcare surging to the top of the performance charts. While everyone’s been watching tech giants make headlines, the real AI revolution is quietly unfolding in labs and hospitals where researchers are discovering that artificial intelligence doesn’t just promise faster drug discovery — it’s […]
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OpenAI’s Plans For Its New ChatGPT Superapp

OpenAI finally released the first version of its long-promised Superapp this week, combining ChatGPT, coding, and internet browsing into a single application, while adding a new ChatGPT Work mode akin to Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. Soon after the product debuted, I spoke with Andrew Ambrosino, OpenAI’s lead for the Codex and ChatGPT app, about how the […]
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Meta’s Path To AI Relevance, According To Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the big monolithic model era is over, and the battle over AI product has just begun. In an extended interview on Big Technology Podcast this week, Bosworth claimed that while frontier AI models are valuable, the way they’re implemented will create the most value. “There’s a strategic construct of having […]
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Starbucks Brews In-House Tools in Shift From Big Tech

Starbucks is developing in-house systems that could replace software it buys from Big Tech companies, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (July 9). The coffee chain is working on alternatives to a system from Microsoft that monitors inventory as well as a maintenance management tool from IBM, the report said, citing an internal presentation. Starbucks has also […]
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Morrisons embraces AI and Lush returns to social media: this week’s biggest retail technology stories

It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail tech space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past few days, including Quadrant, Footasylum, THG Fulfil, John Lewis Partnership, Kevel, East of England Co-op, Uber Eats, New Look, Fermat, and […]
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The United States’ OpenAI Equity Stake, Meta The Neocloud, Karp’s Attack

OpenAI is discussing providing an equity stake to the United States government, Meta is considering selling its excess compute, and Palantir CEO Alex Karp just called out the frontier labs for competing with their customers. Though the U.S. may be slowing down ahead of a holiday weekend, and the globe may be settling in for […]
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Heavy AI Adoption Linked To More Hiring, Not Layoffs, New Data Shows

There’s a flawed yet oft-repeated narrative that AI adoption in the workplace will inevitably lead to layoffs and job loss. The narrative’s been propagated by some of the most visible leaders in tech, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Block CEO Jack Dorsey, the latter of whom used AI as a rationale for laying off […]
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AI Budget Increases, Fable’s Potential, AI’s Cyber Frontier: Takeaways From Big Technology’s AI Summit

Don’t expect AI’s spending frenzy to slow down anytime soon. That was perhaps the biggest lesson at the Big Technology AI Summit, held last week in San Francisco. Within a span of a few hours, we held a month’s worth of discussions, and the consensus around spending — between infrastructure and services — was that […]
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SpaceX’s Valuation Is Crazy. Maybe That’s A Feature?

When you dig into the numbers, SpaceX, in truth, is a connectivity company with an unprofitable rocket arm and an AI question mark. Elon Musk’s crown jewel IPO’d at a $1.77 trillion valuation today and rose to $2.1 trillion at close, a historic number that’s far greater than its books warrant. The company lost nearly […]
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Nobel Prize Winner Geoffrey Hinton on AI: “They’re Beings Like Us”

AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton believes that today’s AI models have become self-aware. “I believe they’re already conscious,” Hinton told me on Big Technology Podcast this week. “We’re going to have to accept that intelligence isn’t just biological.” Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI” for his contributions that helped galvanize the […]
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The Token Reckoning is Here and It’s Not What You Think

In June 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that “Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp,” predicting that as “datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity.” Exactly a year later, AI costs are starting to look less like cheap intelligence and more like […]
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AI’s Public Relations Emergency

To reach people between the ages of 18-25, advertisers have long spent disproportionate sums of money. Young people make choices and develop loyalties that last a lifetime. And when they develop a preference or perspective in that era, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to dislodge. So given what’s happened on American campuses over the past week, […]
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Does Google Have a Claude Code Counterpunch?

The rise of coding agents has reshaped the AI race. Since late last year, AI products that control your computer and act on your behalf have become the frontier, leaving benchmark-breaking model releases as something of an afterthought. Of the leading players, Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have become company-defining products. But Google, despite […]
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Join Greg Brockman, Aravind Srinivas, Aaron Levie, and More at Big Technology’s AI Summit

Hi Everyone! I’m thrilled to announce the first ever Big Technology AI Summit, taking place in San Francisco on June 18, 2026. It’ll be a day of high-profile, news-making interviews with the top leaders in AI at The Commonwealth Club, followed by a wine reception on the roof. We’re going to have a top-tier set […]
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Join us at Big Technology’s AI Summit in San Francisco on 6-18

Hi Everyone! This week, we’re going to announce something that I’ve been working on for a long time, and I think has a chance to be really cool. We’re calling it the Big Technology AI Summit and are hosting it at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club on June 18, 2026. So far we’ve confirmed OpenAI President […]
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A Permanent AI-Driven Underclass? Maybe, But Likely Not.

There’s been a rush of CTOs heading to Anthropic over the past few years. The former CTOs of Instagram, Box, Adept, and Workday have traded their lofty titles for “member of the technical staff” designations, a low-key flex and perhaps a signal of where AI is headed. As Anthropic (and its peers) have loaded up […]
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Are AI’s Consumer Applications Hitting a Wall?

Source: Apptopia This week, the market erupted after OpenAI’s disappointing revenue numbers came to light in the Wall Street Journal. The company is barreling toward an (inevitable) $1 trillion+ IPO, and any hiccup in its story drives a mini-panic. After the chaos settled down though, the bigger, underlying story baked into the numbers got almost […]
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Amazon Cites Strong Q1 Results, With Revenue Up 17% To $181.5 Billion

Amazon yesterday announced its first quarter results, saying that “net sales increased 17% to $181.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $155.7 billion in first quarter 2025.” Amazon said its Q1 net income increased to $30.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $17.1 billion in first quarter 2025, noting that its “net income […]
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What Elon Musk and OpenAI’s High-Profile Court Case Is Actually About

Elon Musk and OpenAI will go to trial this week in a case that should be filled with drama and juicy revelations. You’re probably going to hear a lot about personality conflict between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. But here’s what’s at stake in the case, and what the outcome might be: This is […]
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and a ‘Compute Powered Economy’

OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5.5, or “Spud,” model on Thursday. The model is “a beginning point,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me shortly after release, setting up a series built to take action on your behalf and accomplish your goals. GPT-5.5, Brockman said, is adept at coding and computer control, able to act without arduous […]
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Anthropic’s Mythos is Here. Is OpenAI’s Spud Next?

After Anthropic’s introduction of Mythos — the mega-model it said is too dangerous to release to the public — OpenAI is poised for AI’s next big moment with “Spud.” “Spud” is a massive new base model that OpenAI President Greg Brockman recently told us is “a new pre-train” that can understand instructions and context better. […]
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Senator Mark Warner on AI’s Risks: “I Want To Be More Optimistic, But I Am Terrified.”

Senator Mark Warner seemed worried. Sitting in his office in Washington D.C., the three-term legislator from Virginia leaned forward, looked into his computer, and told me he didn’t believe the government, or anybody for that matter, was prepared for what might happen if AI reaches its potential. “I don’t think the government’s ready. I don’t […]
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Anthropic Takes The Pentagon To Court This Week. Here’s What Could Happen.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in California will hear Anthropic’s argument to freeze the supply-chain risk designation the government slapped on it after it refused to grant the Pentagon the right to use its Claude models for domestic surveillance or autonomous warfare. The hearing is a key next step in Anthropic’s parallel lawsuits against the […]
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Andrew Ross Sorkin on the Risk if AI Succeeds, Private Credit, Prediction Markets, and the SpaceX IPO

When Andrew Ross Sorkin released his book on the 1929 stock market crash last year, the prevailing worry was that the debt-reliant AI buildout might end in disaster. Now, six months later, the market is freaking out about AI’s potential to succeed. Every Anthropic blog post seems to cause a mini-meltdown in software stocks and […]
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SXSW AI Preview, Oracle’s Cuts Foreshadow Others?, AI Consciousness Debate

SXSW 2026 kicks off on Thursday and AI news should be pouring out of Austin. This year’s “Tech & AI” track features about two dozen sessions, making up about a third of the festival’s total featured talks. AI-related sessions will feature a mix of researchers, media executives, and technologists including Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, Cloudflare […]
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Agentic Commerce & the Marketplace Boom with Mirakl’s Scott Eckert

In less than five years, launching a third-party marketplace has gone from a questionable move to a strategic imperative for many major retailers. Recorded live at NRF 2026, this episode of Retail Remix digs into that shift with Scott Eckert, CEO of the Americas at marketplace operator Mirakl. Scott explains why retailers are embracing curated […]
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Hey, You Should Probably Check Your Chatbot’s Privacy Settings

This week, I was surprised to learn that the world’s leading AI labs have granted themselves free rein to train on our conversations. I’ve since fixed the problem for my account, and you might want to as well. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft have all built default settings that allow them to train […]
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Most AI Training Is Moving To Reinforcement Learning, Scale AI Says

Scale AI, the AI data company that helps DeepMind, Meta, and Apple train their models, is now mostly working on reinforcement learning, a method that trains AI models to complete tasks, as opposed to traditional LLM training, which makes them more book-smart. The shift is a stunning evolution in the direction of large language model […]
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Grok Is Gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. How It Got There Isn’t Pretty.

Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok is ascending, jumping from 1.6% to 15.2% in market share among daily U.S. users of chatbot apps from January 2025 to January 2026, according to mobile insights firm Apptopia. The rise marks a furious entry into the chatbot app market for xAI, Musk’s AI company, which joined the race from […]
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Kroger acquiring Giant Eagle in $1.65B deal

Kroger Co. is acquiring Giant Eagle, a family-owned food and pharmacy retailer, for a purchase price of $1.65 billion. Giant Eagle has approximately $9 billion in annual sales and 197 supermarkets and 11 standalone pharmacies across northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana, according to a press release. The purchase is comprised of […]
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Omni CEO Christine Gambino – Omnichannel, Real ID & the Full-Funnel Future

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Christine Gambino, CEO of Omni, Omnicom’s next-generation marketing and sales intelligence platform. It connects strategy, creativity, media, CRM, commerce, data, and AI to help brands grow with greater clarity, speed, and measurable business impact. Follow Christine on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-gambino-59683ab8 Follow Omni online at: https://www.omc.com/omni/ Christine […]
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C-Stores Grow, In Both Size And Ambition

CNBC has a story about how, while “gas stations have been reinventing themselves for the past decade with food offerings that rival many established grub-only chains,” now they are “doing something else: growing in physical size and attracting legions of fans along the way.”  Buc-ee’s is described as the poster child for this transformation: “On […]
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