Google's Borderless Lakehouse: Query AWS and Azure Data Without Moving It
Google turned its Agentic Data Cloud into a federation layer, with an Apache Iceberg lakehouse, cross-cloud interconnect to AWS and Azure now GA at zero egress …
OpenAI ships Images 2.6 as ChatGPT crosses 4 billion images a week
OpenAI rolled out Images 2.6 to every ChatGPT and Codex tier, 50% faster than the last version, with GIF generation and two new API models, Flare and Sunburst, …
AI compute costs explode, Anthropic loses $567 M; Zapier self‑heals, Notion pivots to agents
GPU rental rates have surged to $12‑$13/hr, pushing Anthropic’s Q3 compute bill to $5 bn and flipping a $974 m profit into a $567 m loss. The top 1% of AI …
OpenAI claims a fifth of Google's search volume; the rest of the slate is plumbing
OpenAI's claim that ChatGPT Search touches a fifth of Google's search volume is self-reported, but it lands on top of last week's confirmed ad deceleration, so …
Snowflake’s AI Agents Go Live, Europe’s Supermarkets Freeze, and AI‑Layoff Backfire
Snowflake unveiled CoCo and CoWork bots that run tasks after you log off, while its Cortex AI Gateway adds enterprise‑wide controls. Over 40 European …
Anthropic readies Claude Mythos 5.5 as OpenAI tightens GPT‑Rosalind‑6 guardrails
Anthropic’s website hints at an imminent Claude Mythos 5.5 release, likely timed for the company’s IPO window and aimed at cyber‑defense labs. OpenAI publishes …