I have a confession to make: I don’t have TikTok. Instead, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of strange science channels on YouTube. Just before the holidays, I watched a fascinating video about fractals and the Mandelbrot set. These complex, infinite patterns are nature’s mathematical twin—you can zoom in forever, and they continue to generate…
On March 31, 2026, Larry Ellison initiated the largest restructuring[1] in Oracle’s history. According to TD Cowen estimates, the company is cutting between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs[2], about 18% of its 162,000 global employees. The layoffs affect areas including Revenue & Health Sciences and SaaS & Virtual Operations Services, where reductions exceed 30%, as well…
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.4, combining reasoning, coding, and native computer operation. Meanwhile, prompt injection and deepfake attacks are surging, and the EU AI Act increases regulatory pressure on tech companies.
At the GTC 2026 conference the company NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit package[3] – a software stack for building autonomous AI agents. It includes the open-source Nemo runtime, Claw, the open AI agent blueprint AI-Q, and the family of open models Nemotron. At the same time, NVIDIA announced full support for the Open Claw…
On March 11 Atlassian announced the reduction of around 1,600 jobs[1], roughly 10% of its global workforce. In a memo to employees, the co-founders emphasized that the layoffs aim to “self-finance” increased investments in AI features and to expand sales to enterprise clients[2]. The company estimates restructuring costs[3] – including severance and office space downsizing…
OpenAI Breaks Funding Record, U.S. Clashes with Anthropic, and AI Agents Enter ‘Heavy Industry’ In February 2026, the artificial intelligence market entered the ‘heavy industry’ phase[1]. OpenAI announced a funding round worth 110 billion USD[2], the largest in the history of private technology companies. According to analyses by AP and New York Times, the company…
Meta Platforms signed a multi-year agreement with AMD[3] to supply up to 6 GW of computing power through Instinct GPUs and related CPUs for AI data centers. Independent analyses describe this as the largest single infrastructure contract in the current era of artificial intelligence. The agreement structure includes warrants for 160 million shares of AMD,…
Within just a few days, three major Chinese entities – Alibaba Group with Qwen3.5, Byte. Dance with Doubao 2.0, and Mini. Max with the M2.5 model – released or updated frontier models designed for the era of agents[1]. Chinese Models and the Open GLM-5 Qwen3.5 in its mixture-of-experts architecture has 397 billion parameters[5] (with 17…
Chinese AI labs are entering direct competition with US leaders. The company Zhipu AI, listed in Hong Kong, unveiled[1] the GLM-5 model with 744 billion parameters in a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, of which 40 billion remain active simultaneously. Chinese Frontier Models and Price War The model was trained on 28.5 trillion tokens[3] and equipped with a…
On February 2, SpaceX announced the acquisition of xAI[1] , Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company and creator of the Grok chatbot, in a stock swap deal exchanging 1 share of xAI for 0.1433 SpaceX shares. Together valued at 1.25 trillion dollars[2] integrating rockets, Starlink satellites, the X platform[3] and the Grok AI models, making it…