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Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending

The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B

The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.

On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.

Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal

Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.

Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it

Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing.

Google Cloud surpasses $20B, but says growth was capacity-constrained

Google Cloud topped $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, fueled by surging demand for AI. But capacity constraints mean it could have grown even faster.

Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedrock platform, unveiling a new agentic developer framework, releasing a desktop AI productivity tool called Amazon Quick, and expanding its Amazon Connect service from a single contact-center product into a family of four agentic AI solutions targeting supply chains, hiring, healthcare, and customer e

Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow.

Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already has. Call it the retrieval rebuild.The survey covered three consecutive monthly waves from organizations with 100 or more employees, with between 45 and 58 qualified respondents per month across platform adoption, buyer intent, architecture outlook and evaluation criteria. The data should be treate

In court, Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of trying to 'have your cake and eat it, too'

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

Elon Musk tells his side of OpenAI’s beginnings in trial pitting him against CEO Sam Altman

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world’s richest man against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.

Elon Musk takes stand in trial vs. Sam Altman that could reshape AI’s future

Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, world’s richest man and OpenAI’s cofounder, took the stand Tuesday in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud between himself and former friends Sam Altman and Greg Brockman that could reshape the future development of artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk da su versión del inicio de OpenAI en juicio contra Sam Altman

OAKLAND, California, EE.UU. (AP) — Elon Musk subió al estrado por segundo día el miércoles en el juicio histórico que ...

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI is going to trial, and we’ll have all the latest updates about the maker of ChatGPT.

Takeaways from day 1 of the Elon Musk and Sam Altman trial

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the leaders of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, sat in an Oakland, California courtroom on Tuesday as ...

Elon Musk testifies Sam Altman was not 'honest' about OpenAI's nonprofit mission

By Deepa Seetharaman and Max A. Cherney OAKLAND, California, April 29 (Reuters) - Elon Musk testified on Wednesday that Sam ...

Elon Musk Learned One Crucial Trick From Zuckerberg Ahead of His SpaceX IPO

Musk’s king status at the head of the company is the result of some finagling within SpaceX’s filings. Per Reuters, the ...

Elon Musk tried to ‘bully’ Sam Altman for control of OpenAI

Elon Musk tried to “bully” Sam Altman to seize control of OpenAI, a lawyer for the ChatGPT chief claimed. The Tesla boss has ...