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Oracle co-founder and executive chair Larry Ellison, photographed in 2013.

Why Larry Ellison's Scrapped $7.5 Billion Stock Sale Was Never a Secret

Larry Ellison's $7.5 billion Oracle stock-sale plan lasted one day in public view before he canceled it — a sequence only possible because of a decades-old SEC disclosure rule.

Business  · 13 Sep 2026, 09:23  · Priya Raman
A bowl of fresh strawberries, the fruit behind AI's viral letter-counting test.

Why ChatGPT Still Can't Count the Letters in a Word

Two years after the “strawberry” meme went viral, ChatGPT and other chatbots still miscount letters — and the reason is architectural, not a bug anyone can simply patch.

Tech  · 6 Sep 2026, 09:30  · Daniel Okafor
UC Riverside professor Shaolei Ren delivers his TEDAI Vienna talk on AI's water footprint.

Why AI's Water-Use Numbers Are All Over the Map

A 519-milliliter estimate and a 0.26-milliliter one both come from real research. The gap comes down to what each study counts, onsite cooling, power-plant water, or both, not who's lying.

Tech  · 4 Sep 2026, 09:22  · Daniel Okafor
A food delivery courier carrying an insulated delivery bag.

Why Your DoorDash Delivery Time Keeps Moving After You Order

DoorDash and Uber Eats don't show a fixed delivery time -- they show a live prediction that updates itself repeatedly, and the model behind it is doing real engineering work.

Business  · 31 Aug 2026, 15:38  · Priya Raman
Nvidia-powered AI data center infrastructure of the kind covered by its paused revenue-sharing financing program.

Why Nvidia Just Paused Its AI Cloud Revenue-Share Deals

Nvidia offered to bankroll smaller AI clouds' chip purchases in exchange for a slice of their revenue. Weeks later, its own employees flagged the antitrust risk.

Business  · 28 Aug 2026, 09:22  · Priya Raman
A white Waymo-operated Jaguar I-PACE robotaxi driving on a street in San Francisco.

Who's Liable When Your Self-Driving Uber Crashes?

Waymo just told Uber it's building its own app for Austin and Atlanta. Behind the split is a messier question riders rarely think about: who pays when the car with no driver hits something.

Tech  · 11 Aug 2026, 09:30  · Daniel Okafor
Rows of servers in a data center hall lit by blue indicator lights.

Why AI Data Centers Use So Much Electricity and Water

AI data centers are on track to use as much power as Japan by 2030. Here is why the chips draw so much electricity, how much water cooling takes, and what it means for your bill.

Tech  · 7 Jul 2026, 09:28  · Daniel Okafor
A worker on a carbon-fibre production line in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in June 2026.

China's Factory Activity Edges Back Into Growth as AI Lifts Exports

The June reading cleared the 50 line that separates growth from contraction, but the expansion leans almost entirely on demand tied to the global AI boom.

Business  · 30 Jun 2026, 06:25  · Priya Raman
An illuminated Google logo on a wall. (Photo: Reuters)

Google Caps Meta's Gemini Access as the AI Compute Crunch Bites

Even the company that builds the most AI infrastructure on Earth is rationing it. Google's cap on Meta's Gemini use shows where the real bottleneck sits.

Tech  · 28 Jun 2026, 09:30  · Daniel Okafor
The trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where Japanese shares rose more than 2% on Thursday.

Micron Quadruples Revenue and Asia's Stock Markets Surge

Record results from Micron, built on a $100 billion order backlog, eased fears over the AI rally and sent Asian equities sharply higher on Thursday.

Business  · 25 Jun 2026, 08:40  · Priya Raman
Signage bearing the Oracle Corporation logo.

Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in a Year as It Funnels Cash Into AI

A securities filing shows Oracle’s headcount fell to 141,000 from 162,000 in a year. The company named its own AI as a factor while pouring billions into data centres.

Business  · 23 Jun 2026, 07:01  · Priya Raman
Elon Musk, whose SpaceX is acquiring the maker of the Cursor AI coding tool.

SpaceX to Buy AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

Days after its $2 trillion listing, Musk's SpaceX is paying $60 billion for the maker of Cursor, a bet on AI coding where his Grok has lagged rivals.

Tech  · 16 Jun 2026, 12:29  · Daniel Okafor
Jeff Bezos, who is leading the physical-AI startup Prometheus as co-CEO after stepping down from Amazon in 2021.

Bezos's Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Automate Heavy Engineering

Jeff Bezos's once-stealth physical-AI startup emerged at a $41 billion valuation, promising to compress engineering work the way large language models compressed text. The specifics stay locked up.

Tech  · 13 Jun 2026, 18:02  · Daniel Okafor

ChatGPT Reaches 1 Billion Monthly App Users as Public Mood on AI Sours

Sensor Tower estimates OpenAI's chatbot became the fastest app ever to hit one billion monthly users, even as graduates jeer AI at commencements and rivals Claude and Meta AI grow several times faster.

Tech  · 12 Jun 2026, 18:38  · Daniel Okafor