Posts tagged industry-news.
- OpenAI Cracks $25B and AI Agents Finally Earn Their KeepOpenAI just hit $25B annualized and Anthropic is right behind at $19B. Meanwhile, agentic AI quietly went into production at Fortune 500 shops.
- AI Agents Can Now Buy Things. China Says Don't Fire for It.Cloudflare and Stripe gave agents a way to create accounts, buy domains, and deploy apps. China ruled firing workers to replace with AI is illegal.
- Big Tech Just Spent Earnings Day Promising to Spend MoreMicrosoft and Meta both crushed earnings, then both raised their AI capex forecasts and watched their stocks drop. That's where we are now.
- GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Drop. OpenAI Leaves Microsoft Exclusive.GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Ultra both launched this week, and OpenAI quietly ended its Microsoft distribution exclusivity to expand to AWS and Google Cloud.
- Snap Blames AI for 1,000 Layoffs, Meta Bets $135BSnap laid off 1,000 people and cited AI as the reason. Meta is spending up to $135 billion on it this year. OpenAI launched workspace agents. Big week.