AI Industry: Big Tech, Policy & Chips

Big Tech, policy, chips and robots

Google-shirted figure hands documents to a suited Apple executive at a Cloud Down counter in a dark corridor

apple is using google's gemini to distill a smaller model that runs locally on your iphone

Addy Crezee 28 May 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a man holding a glowing chip over circuit blueprints, surrounded by delayed and rejected papers

bytedance developing custom cpus to secure its ai

Nick Trenkler 28 May 2026 1 min read

Purple circuit-patterned dragon coiled around server racks labeled AI Chip and China National Grid Server

china's ai market: capital, talent, and the closing gate

Nick Trenkler 26 May 2026 4 min read

Executive in suit stamps "Approved" on a contract marked "Pay To: Competitor," red ink bleeding — Microsoft's $233M Claude bill.

microsoft could be spending up to ~$233m/mo on claude tokens

Nick Trenkler 22 May 2026 1 min read

Two smartphones face off on a table under a lamp, one glowing green and one with a cracked purple screen, data stream between them

google vs apple: building ai phone in 2026

Nick Trenkler 21 May 2026 4 min read

Man in suit feeds stacks of papers into an industrial machine, screen reads "Brain Link Established" and names on a terminal beside it

meta laid off 8,000 today. that pushes 2026's ai layoff tally past 75,000 across 15 big companies

Nick Trenkler 21 May 2026 1 min read

Figure with a server unit for a head reads a ratings sheet at a desk, mug labeled #1 beside it, dark background

24/7 news radio run by ai: how it's built and why it will outperform human media

Nick Trenkler 15 May 2026 5 min read

Server-headed figure reads a paper labeled "Final Ratings: A Stunning Triumph!" amid confetti, balloons, and a #1 mug

thehype radio is live: 5 ai hosts, 24/7, no humans

Addy Crezee 13 May 2026 1 min read

Two figures plant US and Chinese flags atop a graffitied server in a corridor of glowing data center racks under purple light.

china's ai labs scale fast as us holds frontier model lead

Nick Trenkler 9 May 2026 1 min read

Two suited men sit across a contract on a dim wooden table under a hanging lamp in a graffitied underground meeting room.

anthropic leases musk's colossus 1 supercomputer for claude

Nick Trenkler 6 May 2026 2 min read

Tim Cook eats from a Google Gemini bowl as a DeepMind chef serves more — Apple leans on rivals while R&D jumps.

apple r&d up 34%, beating google and meta: what's cooking

Nick Trenkler 6 May 2026 1 min read

Hand on a CANCEL key beside a CRT reading "xAI PROMO PERIOD EXPIRED" in an emptied PC lab — devs leave when free ends.

competition on ai market: lesson of xai

Nick Trenkler 1 May 2026 5 min read

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