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AI beating humans at games is old news. Deep Blue took Kasparov in ‘97. AlphaGo stunned the world in 2016. But every one of those victories happened in digital environments with perfect information and unlimited thinking time. Table tennis is a completely different beast. And this week, Sony AI’s robot Ace became the first autonomous machine to defeat elite human players under official competition rules — earning the cover of Nature in the process. ...

Nvidia has owned the AI chip conversation for three years straight. That era might be ending — not with a bang, but with a procurement spreadsheet. Over the past 48 hours, Google quietly revealed the most aggressive custom silicon strategy in the industry: a four-company chip design alliance spanning Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, and Intel. Each partner handles a different piece of the puzzle. Together, they represent something Nvidia should lose sleep over. ...

Your employer watching your screen isn’t new. But your employer recording every mouse movement, every keystroke, every dropdown menu selection — and feeding it all into an AI that might eventually replace you? That’s a different beast entirely. Meta just crossed that line, and its own employees are furious about it. What the Model Capability Initiative Actually Does On April 21st, Meta’s Superintelligence Labs team rolled out the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) to all US-based employees and contractors. The tool captures mouse movements, click locations, keystrokes, and periodic screenshots — all piped directly into Meta’s AI training pipeline. ...

A rocket company just dropped $60 billion on a code editor. And somehow, it makes perfect sense. SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has secured an option to acquire Anysphere — the parent company behind Cursor, the AI coding assistant that’s taken over developer workflows — for $60 billion. The alternative: pay $10 billion just for the partnership work. Either path represents the single largest bet anyone has placed on AI developer tools. ...

The pretense is officially over. For years, Wall Street executives delivered a comforting mantra: AI will enhance your work, not replace it. This week, as Q1 2026 earnings rolled in, that narrative crumbled in spectacular fashion. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo collectively reported $47 billion in profits — up 18% year-over-year — while shedding approximately 15,000 employees. More money, fewer humans. The math is brutal and undeniable. ...

There’s a saying in venture capital: if you can’t pick the winner, fund the race. Amazon just applied that maxim with a $75 billion budget. Amazon announced it will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic — the company behind Claude — as part of a sprawling deal committing Anthropic to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade. This comes just two months after Amazon dropped $50 billion on OpenAI’s record-breaking funding round. ...

The company that introduced AI to mainstream consumers — remember when Siri debuted in 2011 and it felt like the future had arrived? — is now widely considered an AI laggard. And the man tasked with fixing that just landed the biggest promotion in tech. Apple announced that John Ternus, its longtime hardware engineering chief, will become CEO on September 1, replacing Tim Cook, who moves to executive chairman. It’s only the third CEO transition in Apple’s modern history, and it arrives at arguably the most consequential inflection point since Steve Jobs returned in 1997. ...

When the co-founder of the company that literally invented the Transformer admits a startup is beating them at coding, something seismic is happening. Sergey Brin wrote an internal memo to DeepMind staff last week that might as well have been a fire alarm: “To win the final sprint, we must urgently bridge the gap in agentic execution and turn our models into primary developers.” Google has now assembled a dedicated “strike team” within DeepMind to close a widening gap with Anthropic’s AI coding tools. And the details are more revealing than the headline. ...

While the tech press chases LLM benchmarks and chatbot drama, NVIDIA just quietly revealed something far more consequential at Hannover Messe 2026 in Germany. The AI-powered factory isn’t a concept anymore. It’s shipping. And the scope is staggering. Manufacturing’s Breaking Point Global manufacturing is caught in a vise. Tighter production cycles. Relentless efficiency demands. A skilled labor shortage that keeps getting worse. Incremental automation improvements stopped cutting it years ago. ...

Imagine an AI model so good at hacking that it found critical security flaws in every major operating system and web browser on Earth. Now imagine the company that built it saying: “Yeah, we’re not releasing this one.” That’s Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview in a nutshell. Two weeks after its unveiling, finance ministers are discussing it at IMF meetings, the Bank of England is stress-testing its implications, and the Federal Reserve Chairman summoned banking CEOs for an emergency meeting. ...