The AI infrastructure gold rush is showing its first major cracks. Companies like Oracle and Broadcom are seeing their stocks plummet as the market questions the sustainability of their massive debt-fueled spending sprees.
The US has suspended a planned technology partnership with the UK announced just this September. The deal, which covered AI and quantum computing, is stalled over disputes on trade barriers, including UK food safety regulations.
The promised £31bn US investment in UK tech is paused over trade disputes. Meanwhile, Chrome extensions are caught selling your private AI chats to third parties. Plus, Oracle defends its OpenAI deal and a pop star’s iPhone rage.
Oracle is down 44% from its high, and AI cloud provider CoreWeave is down a staggering 60%. Yet, the S&P 500 barely flinched. This isn’t a broad bubble pop—it’s a targeted reckoning for over-leveraged players.
Amazon is cutting 84 corporate jobs in Washington state, but insists these are individual business decisions, not part of its broader 14,000-person layoff plan. The separations, affecting roles from engineers to directors, are scheduled between February 2 and 23, 2026.
A proposed $42 billion tech and trade agreement between the US and UK is now on hold. The Biden administration is frustrated with Britain’s refusal to drop its Digital Services Tax, a 2% levy on big tech firms.
A deep dive into iRobot’s history shows how the company that invented the robotic vacuum cleaner failed to capitalize on its early lead. Now, with its sale to Amazon in jeopardy, its future is uncertain.
A team from the Technical University of Munich has directly observed how deuterons and antideuterons form in proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Their findings, published in Nature, reveal these nuclei aren’t present at the start but assemble later from decaying high-energy particle stat
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers using the SNO+ detector at SNOLAB in Canada have captured solar neutrinos in the act of a rare atomic transformation. The team, led by physicist Gulliver Milton, analyzed data from May 2022 to June 2023 to spot the telltale signature. This confirms long-hel
A recent poll of manufacturing and engineering professionals found that 55% are optimistic about U.S. manufacturing growth in the next 12 months. This confidence is tied to tech adoption and supply chain shifts, but significant hurdles around workforce and integration persist.
