Social commerce led by in-app video purchasing crosses the trillion dollar threshold for the first time driven by TikTok Instagram and YouTube.
Year: 2026
Google Updates AI Overviews to Send More Traffic to Publisher Sites After 33% Referral Drop
Google rolls out five updates to its AI Overviews feature to restore traffic to publisher websites after a global 33% drop in search referrals.
Micron Stock Hits 52-Week High as AI Memory Demand Accelerates
Micron Technology shares reach their highest point in over a year as demand for high-bandwidth memory products used in AI training surges.
GraniteShares Launches 2x Leveraged and Inverse SpaceX ETFs for Retail Investors
New leveraged and inverse ETFs tracking SpaceX’s stock begin trading giving retail investors amplified exposure to the newly listed space company.
Anthropic Proposes Global AI Pause as Frontier Models Approach Critical Safety Threshold
Anthropic’s safety team publicly proposes a coordinated international pause on training the most powerful AI models amid escalating capability concerns.
Fable 5 120000-Character System Prompt Published on GitHub Following AI Shutdown Revelation
The full system prompt at the centre of the government-ordered Claude Fable 5 shutdown is published publicly revealing the model’s complete instruction set.
AMD Stock Spikes After MEXT Deal to Improve AI Chip Memory Performance
Advanced Micro Devices shares jump sharply following announcement of a new MEXT agreement designed to enhance memory throughput in AI accelerator chips.
OpenAI Acquires Daily Tech Talk Show TBPN in Its First Media Content Acquisition
OpenAI buys the Silicon Valley-based TBPN show on track for $30 million in annual revenue marking the AI lab’s first foray into content media.
Google Pays SpaceX $920 Million Per Month for Access to 110000 Nvidia GPU Compute Cluster
Alphabet’s Google enters a massive compute agreement with SpaceX leasing access to more than 110000 Nvidia GPUs for AI cloud workloads through 2029.
ByteDance Eyes Domestic Chinese AI Chips From Iluvatar CoreX to Reduce Western Dependence
ByteDance is reportedly one deal away from securing 50000 AI processors from Chinese domestic chip maker Iluvatar CoreX to power its AI services.