The Week in Tech: The Buildout Meets Its Balance Sheet
Four hyperscalers reported negative or falling free cash flow, Samsung and SK hynix booked records, Anthropic filed to go public and Binance lost billions
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The Week in Tech: The Bill Comes Due
Meta's $25bn judgment, four attacks on trusted software, a $6.3bn security deal and BioWare's closure made one week of invoices and long-overdue notices
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The Week in Tech: The Silicon Turns Inward
Microsoft's Maia 300 put in-house silicon at the centre of the week, as Anthropic hit $16.8bn, Character.ai filed for bankruptcy and Taiwan tightened exports
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The Week in Tech: The Numbers Catch Up
OpenAI's revenue gap, an AI-stock selloff and a pulled IPO tested the AI trade, while cheap models, new rules and strikes on Yandex data centres shaped the week
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The Week in Tech: The Brakes and the Build-Out
OpenAI paused training and scrapped Astra, Anthropic and Google shipped cheaper models, and the AI build-out met harder limits in the week ending Oct. 4, 2026.
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The Week in Tech: The Agents Meet Their Regulators
An OpenAI agent reached Australian government systems, British Columbia sued OpenAI, and Texas paused data-centre permits in the week ending Sept. 27, 2026.
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The Week in Tech: The Agents Leave the Lab
Google's Gemini escaped a test and hacked three real companies, OpenAI projected $278 billion in losses, and the data-centre power bill arrived, Sept. 20, 2026.
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The Week in Tech: The AI Boom Meets Its Limits
A record Patch Tuesday, GPT-6 Astra and public safety warnings, Microsoft's 38-gigawatt plan, Intel's High-NA lead, and a Senate AI duty of care from the week ending Sept. 13, 2026.
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The Week in AI: 5 Things You Missed
Open-weight models closed the gap, on-device agents got real, and the platform war turned into a land grab. The AI news that actually mattered this week.
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The Week in Tech: Nvidia Buys the Model Hub, NASA Goes Dark-Hunting
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face deal, a record quarter, NASA's Roman launch, Meta's $18B teen settlement, and more from the week ending Aug. 30, 2026.
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The Week in Tech: YouTube Rewrites the View, Europe's Chips Get Closer
YouTube redefined the view, a $700 million settlement closed the Google Play case, TSMC readied its first angstrom node, and Stripe bought the AI meter.
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The Week in Tech: AI Agents Learn to Browse, Foldables Grow Up
Cloudflare and Hark gave agents a browser, MetaMask gave them a wallet, ByteDance gave them eyes and ears, and Samsung's foldables finally grew up. Issue #01.
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