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A white Waymo-operated Jaguar I-PACE robotaxi driving on a street in San Francisco.

Who's Liable When Your Self-Driving Uber Crashes?

Waymo just told Uber it's building its own app for Austin and Atlanta. Behind the split is a messier question riders rarely think about: who pays when the car with no driver hits something.

Tech  · 11 Aug 2026, 09:30  · Daniel Okafor
Rows of servers in a data center hall lit by blue indicator lights.

Why AI Data Centers Use So Much Electricity and Water

AI data centers are on track to use as much power as Japan by 2030. Here is why the chips draw so much electricity, how much water cooling takes, and what it means for your bill.

Tech  · 7 Jul 2026, 09:28  · Daniel Okafor
A worker on a carbon-fibre production line in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in June 2026.

China's Factory Activity Edges Back Into Growth as AI Lifts Exports

The June reading cleared the 50 line that separates growth from contraction, but the expansion leans almost entirely on demand tied to the global AI boom.

Business  · 30 Jun 2026, 06:25  · Priya Raman
An illuminated Google logo on a wall. (Photo: Reuters)

Google Caps Meta's Gemini Access as the AI Compute Crunch Bites

Even the company that builds the most AI infrastructure on Earth is rationing it. Google's cap on Meta's Gemini use shows where the real bottleneck sits.

Tech  · 28 Jun 2026, 09:30  · Daniel Okafor
The trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where Japanese shares rose more than 2% on Thursday.

Micron Quadruples Revenue and Asia's Stock Markets Surge

Record results from Micron, built on a $100 billion order backlog, eased fears over the AI rally and sent Asian equities sharply higher on Thursday.

Business  · 25 Jun 2026, 08:40  · Priya Raman
Signage bearing the Oracle Corporation logo.

Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in a Year as It Funnels Cash Into AI

A securities filing shows Oracle’s headcount fell to 141,000 from 162,000 in a year. The company named its own AI as a factor while pouring billions into data centres.

Business  · 23 Jun 2026, 07:01  · Priya Raman
Elon Musk, whose SpaceX is acquiring the maker of the Cursor AI coding tool.

SpaceX to Buy AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

Days after its $2 trillion listing, Musk's SpaceX is paying $60 billion for the maker of Cursor, a bet on AI coding where his Grok has lagged rivals.

Tech  · 16 Jun 2026, 12:29  · Daniel Okafor
Jeff Bezos, who is leading the physical-AI startup Prometheus as co-CEO after stepping down from Amazon in 2021.

Bezos's Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Automate Heavy Engineering

Jeff Bezos's once-stealth physical-AI startup emerged at a $41 billion valuation, promising to compress engineering work the way large language models compressed text. The specifics stay locked up.

Tech  · 13 Jun 2026, 18:02  · Daniel Okafor

ChatGPT Reaches 1 Billion Monthly App Users as Public Mood on AI Sours

Sensor Tower estimates OpenAI's chatbot became the fastest app ever to hit one billion monthly users, even as graduates jeer AI at commencements and rivals Claude and Meta AI grow several times faster.

Tech  · 12 Jun 2026, 18:38  · Daniel Okafor