AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.
- Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
- Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
- Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
- Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
- Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
- Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
- Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed
- The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
- Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
- Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
- Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer
- Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices
- The AI IPO boom is different
- Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire
- Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
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