Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting OpenAI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by...

Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates...

Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate “long-horizon” autonomous coding and engineering tasks....

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday...

Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that’s been slowing AI agents

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn’t introduce latency and performance degradation.Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons...

Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2026 | Technology

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform...