
Who do you love more—Anthropic or the Pentagon? AI labs are forcing tough choices. Plus: $840B OpenAI, $159B Stripe, and more.

Who do you love more—Anthropic or the Pentagon? AI labs are forcing tough choices. Plus: $840B OpenAI, $159B Stripe, and more.
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AI labs step into reporting season. OpenAI locks in enterprise. Anthropic defines limits.

AI labs may be winning investor sentiment. Consumer sentiment is still a fight.

A reset on space-based AI compute and the companies emerging beyond the SaaS downturn.

Enterprise AI adoption under the microscope, OpenAI’s next mega-round, and why timing — even cosmic — suddenly matters.

AI labs push into agentic shopping and healthcare as adoption data shifts. Prediction markets gain traction, IPO filings pick up, and funding is hot.

Hyping “rising AI compute costs” is easy. Measuring AI compute efficiency is harder.

The AI race hits a reality check as Anthropic challenges OpenAI, Databricks grows through margin pressure, and SaaS proves it’s far from dead.

Space data centers become Christmas-party lore, grid storage breaks records, SpaceX jumps in valuation, and OpenAI user growth cools

Big Tech opts for open relationships with AI labs, OpenAI sets an $850B goal, politics moves into tech — and the year ends with major rounds.

AI giants take divergent paths, defense spending goes orbital, and crypto firms rush to list—capital is reorganizing across AI, space, and finance.

SoftBank fuels OpenAI’s trillion-dollar expansion as Anthropic, CoreWeave, and Quantinuum race to build the next layer of intelligence.
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