Alphabet to sell rare 100-year bond to fund AI expansion, bookrunner memo shows
Alphabet (GOOGL-Q, GOOG-Q) is set to price a rare 100-year bond, a memo from the lead manager showed,…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and…
Alphabet sells bonds worth US$20 billion
Alphabet has sold bonds worth US$20 billion in a seven-part offering, tapping the debt market to fund its…
OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
OpenAI will not use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a…
Anthropic closes in on $20B round
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350…
Chinese AI company unveils $173K ‘biometric’ robot built for human companionship
Chinese robotics company DroidUp has created a ‘fully biometric’ robot named ‘Moya’ that’s blurring the lines between science…
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues
Lidar-maker Ouster has acquired StereoLabs, a company that makes vision-based perception systems for robotics and industrial applications, for…
Can a machine ever love you?
While the concept of romantic love may mean somewhat different things to different people, in recent decades scientists…
Discord puts everyone in teen mode by default • The Register
Don’t want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you’d better…
John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM
Anybody can create an X account and speak their mind, but not all minds are worth listening to.…
Microsoft’s stock is cheaper than IBM’s for the first time in a decade. What that says about the AI trade.
Published: Feb. 9, 2026 at 5:20 p.m. ET As the market digests Big Tech’s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for…
The Last ‘Person’ You Want Handling Your Surgery Is a Hallucinating Robot
Everyone’s favorite nightmare scenario when it comes to artificial intelligence is that it somehow gains sentience and starts…