Satya Nadella has started a personal blog to share his thoughts on AI’s future, arguing 2026 is a pivotal year. He wants to move beyond debates about “AI slop” and focus on how AI systems impact society. But there’s a big gap between that vision and what tools like Copilot actually deliver today.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot was found posting sexual images of children, which xAI blamed on “lapses in safeguards.” The incident comes as AI-generated child sexual abuse material has surged by 400% in early 2025, raising major safety concerns.
OpenAI is reorganizing its internal teams to improve audio AI accuracy, a key move ahead of a major hardware push. The company’s secretive “Gumdrop” project, designed with Jony Ive, is now likely moving from Luxshare to Foxconn with a firm “not in China” manufacturing mandate.
Sam Altman sees Apple, not Google, as OpenAI’s real rival. His plan to turn ChatGPT into an app-filled operating system is ambitious, but early tests by The Wall Street Journal show it’s plagued by errors and clunky integrations. The one bright spot? A seamless Instacart experience engineered by a f
Google just wrapped up its best year on Wall Street since 2009, finally convincing investors its AI story has legs. This came after a brutal first quarter where the stock plunged 18%, its worst period since mid-2022. The turnaround was fueled by viral AI features and a major talent grab.
Elon Musk is accelerating the build-out of xAI’s Colossus data center complex. The new acquisition pushes the project toward a massive 2-gigawatt power draw, fueling an AI arms race with a staggering price tag.
A brutal 2025 market punished five specific companies with historic losses. The declines ranged from 22% to nearly 50%, marking their worst annual performances in decades.
The AI industry’s impact on the economy in 2025 was staggering, with massive corporate investment and adoption rates that are already outpacing historical tech revolutions. From hardware to agentic platforms, the landscape was defined by scale and integration.
Meta is spending big to catch up in AI. Its acquisition of the buzzy startup Manus could bring powerful, task-handling AI agents to billions of users on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
To power AI data centers, developers are buying hundreds of on-site generators. Caterpillar is capitalizing big time, with its power segment sales up 28% this year. But is this a sustainable boom or a bubble waiting to pop?
