Salesforce posted record first-quarter results. Revenue hit $11.13 billion. Adjusted earnings per share reached $3.88. Both figures topped expectations. Yet shares slipped in the hours after the report. Investors focused less on the beat and more on what comes next. The numbers tell one story. The guidance and broader market mood tell another. For a […]

China has begun designing a futures market for AI tokens. The effort, still in its earliest phases, marks a distinct approach from American exchanges racing to list contracts on GPU compute power. Sources close to the planning told Reuters the Shanghai Futures Exchange is studying contracts tied to the smallest units of information that AI

Shoppers notice it immediately. Longer lines at checkout. Aisles jammed with carts. Parking lots that fill up fast. Data confirms the impression. Visits to Costco warehouses have jumped 18.1% between the first quarters of 2019 and 2026. Yahoo Finance reported the surge. The increase stems from more than simple population growth. Value draws people in.

Microsoft has told engineers in one of its largest divisions to stop using an external AI coding assistant. The reason is simple. The bills grew too large. The software maker, which has invested roughly $13 billion in OpenAI and relies on generative AI for as much as 30 percent of its own code, is canceling

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey delivered a blunt message in Reykjavík. British banks still cannot access Anthropic’s advanced AI model designed to hunt software vulnerabilities. The tool, known as Mythos, promises to uncover bugs faster than human experts. Yet concerns over its power have delayed rollout. Bailey made the comments during an interview with

Microsoft has positioned a cluster of data centers in rural Washington state as a successful example of balancing massive computing infrastructure with local community needs. The company points to facilities in Quincy and surrounding areas of Grant County as models where economic benefits flow to residents without overwhelming the region’s resources. Yet questions remain about

Google once defined the internet experience. Type a query. Scan the blue links. Click through. Find what you need. That simple flow feels distant now. At its I/O event this year, the company pushed an intelligent search box front and center. Traditional results get buried. AI summaries and chat interfaces dominate. TechCrunch captured the reaction.

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, marking another significant clash between traditional news organizations and the AI search company that has drawn sharp criticism from publishers. The complaint, filed in federal court, accuses Perplexity of systematically copying and summarizing CNN’s content without permission, effectively building its business on the back of journalistic work while

Authorities in the Netherlands moved swiftly this week against one of the largest collections of compromised machines uncovered in recent years. The joint effort by Dutch police and the National Cyber Security Centre dismantled infrastructure that controlled more than 17 million infected devices worldwide. Those devices fed a residential proxy network used for criminal activity.

Google has placed a sizable bet on AI that doesn’t wait for instructions. At its I/O 2026 conference, the company unveiled Gemini Spark, a persistent agent built to handle multi-step work across email, documents, calendars and the wider web. Unlike chatbots that respond once and stop, Spark runs in the background on Google Cloud virtual