Palantir CEO Alex Karp unleashes a fiery attack on Big Tech AI firms, calling the industry 'effing insane' and accusing them of overcharging businesses and exploiting customer data, while Palantir shares surge 9% following his CNBC interview and a new Nvidia partnership announcement.
Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 launches Base1, a custom AI model trained on tens of millions of real user interactions, aiming to outperform competitors in speed and efficiency as the vibe-coding market heats up with rivals like Lovable hitting $500 million in ARR and frontier labs like Anthropic encroaching on the space.
Anthropic's new Claude Tag agent launches inside Slack, letting users assign tasks and build institutional knowledge — directly threatening Salesforce's $800M Agentforce platform, even as Salesforce publicly promotes the rival tool it helped fund.
Apple VP Paul Meade, who led Vision Pro and AI smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's rapidly expanding hardware team amid an internal leadership shake-up linked to John Ternus' expected rise to CEO.
Google is restricting Meta's access to its Gemini AI models due to a computing capacity shortage, disrupting Meta's internal AI projects and forcing staff to use AI tokens more efficiently, with several other Google clients also feeling the impact.
OpenAI appoints former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first-ever India managing director, signaling a major push into its second-largest global market as competition with rivals like Anthropic heats up.
Apple Vision Pro engineering VP Paul Meade is leaving Apple to join OpenAI's hardware unit, reuniting with Jony Ive and former Apple colleagues to build next-generation AI-powered devices, as Apple struggles with Vision Pro's poor sales and pivots toward smart glasses.
Tech giants OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic are funding a $500 million nonprofit initiative called Raise Us to retrain American workers displaced by the very AI technology these companies are deploying, launching pilot programs across four states in a move that acknowledges growing tension between AI-driven layoffs and long-term workforce stability.
Apple shares plunge 6.1% to $275.15 in their biggest single-day drop since April 2025, as a global memory chip shortage driven by AI data center expansion forces price hikes of up to $500 on Macs, iPads, and other products, with analysts warning iPhone Pro models could soon follow with a $100 increase.
Apple hikes MacBook prices by up to $300 as AI-driven demand sends Dynamic RAM costs surging 98%, with analysts warning iPhone price increases are coming next.