Tom Carter / Business Insider: Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anthropic plans to design its own AI chips to run Claude, the company told Business Insider.
Business Insider: Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech — Google wants its AI to get better at coding. It might have found a shortcut. — The tech giant has been in discussions …
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed — - Harmony raised a $34 million seed round led by Lightspeed to automate workplace requests. — Its cofounders sold their last startup to Cisco for $500 million.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative — Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy …
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year — Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company …
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race — CEO Satya Nadella just dismantled the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades.
Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs — - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the University of Arizona's commencement address this year.
Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition — - William Savitt is representing Sam Altman in Elon Musk's lawsuit trying to dismantle OpenAI.
Ben Shimkus / Business Insider: Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years — - AWS's CEO, Matt Garman, said Amazon sees demand for hiring new software engineers “accelerating.”
Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B — - Anthropic's valuation now hovers at $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange. — That is a higher price than OpenAI …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules — Follow Eugene Kim … - Amazon's Project Houdini modularizes main server rooms, expediting AWS data center buildouts.
Alistair Barr / Business Insider: GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access — Follow Alistair Barr … - Cloudflare and GoDaddy are addressing AI's impact on web traffic and revenue.
Alistair Barr / Business Insider: TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 — The US jobs report on Friday was surprisingly strong. That's not the only part of the job market that's doing better than expected.
Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator — Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will hit their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity — Follow Brent D. Griffiths … - Anthropic adjusted Claude usage caps during peak hours. — The changes show that the AI company is experiencing some compute strain.
Business Insider: The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 — - Tech industries are losing their strength. — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions. — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.
Katherine Li / Business Insider: Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal on Friday “looked opportunistic and sloppy” but OpenAI was “trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome” — Follow Katherine Li … - OpenAI said it revised Pentagon contract amid backlash over AI use concerns and surveillance fears.
Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is ‘ridiculous’ — Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch satellites that act as data centers into space. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said placing data centers in space isn't feasible right now. — He called the idea “ridiculous” during an event in New Delhi.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses — - Amazon halts Blue Jay robot project amid strategic shift in warehouse technology. — Blue Jay faced high costs and complexities …
Business Insider: Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision” — - Scale AI is suing the Department of Defense, filing its complaint on January 30.
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code — - Amazon internally promotes Kiro over third-party AI coding tools including Claude Code. — Some employees have criticized …
Grace Kay / Business Insider: Staff memo: xAI says both xAI and SpaceX will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 — - XAI sent out a Q&A to staff after it announced SpaceX had acquired the company. — SpaceX and xAI branding and work will stay separate for now, the memo said.
Dan Whateley / Business Insider: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as “great news”, and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses — - TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US. — The deal, a US joint venture …
Lee Chong Ming / Business Insider: Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business” — - OpenAI has made more than $1 billion a month from something other than ChatGPT. — That revenue comes “just from our API business,” Sam Altman said.
Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users — - Emergent is an AI software creation platform that helps anyone build web and mobile applications.
Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate — - Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks the time corporate employees spend in the office.
Polly Thompson / Business Insider: Starlink says it hit 9M “active customers” across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M in November, 7M in August, and 4.6M in December 2024 — - SpaceX says its Starlink internet has hit 9 million customers, just over a month after reaching 8 million.
Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” — - Australia is now barring children under 16 from creating or maintaining social media accounts.
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed “Phoenix” from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for “more breathing room to get the details right” — - Meta delays the release of its “Phoenix” mixed reality glasses to 2027, aiming to “get the details right.”
Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus — - Sunday Robotics hired several former Tesla staff members to work on its Memo home robot. — Some Sunday Robotics staff …
Rebecca Torrence / Business Insider: Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation — - Thirty Madison's former president is launching her own healthcare AI startup without VC funding.
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their “AI-driven impact”, which will be a “core expectation” of their performance from 2026 — - Meta will assess employee performance by AI-driven impact starting in 2026. — The company is shifting toward …
Dan Whateley / Business Insider: TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 — - Generative AI is becoming a headache for the marketplace quality team at TikTok Shop. — Fraudsters are using AI to try …
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries — - A lot of the non-political entries are just direct copies of Wikipedia. — But in certain cases, Grokipedia improved the Wikipedia page …
Alice Tecotzky / Business Insider: SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon — - Snowflake filed an 8-K after an exec gave financial guidance in an influencer's video. — The data-storage company said investors …
Business Insider: US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says “Chat and I” have become “really close lately” — - Some military leaders are adopting AI for decision-making. — The military has adopted an aggressive push …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated — Follow Eugene Kim … Saved — Add us on — Amazon's Q Business AI tool faced accuracy issues in its first year.
Grace Kay / Business Insider: Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles — - The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles.
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 — - Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding. — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.
Business Insider: Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform — - Meta is training custom AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages and boost user engagement.
Dan Whateley / Business Insider: YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience — - YouTube is adding a new tool to let creators change thumbnails for videos in different languages.
Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees — - Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple over its App Store rules for five years.
Rebecca Torrence / Business Insider: Nourish, which offers virtual, insurance-covered nutritional care from 3,000+ dietitians, raised a $70M Series B led by JPM, sources say at a $1B+ valuation — - Nourish just raised $70 million in Series B funding led by JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners. — Nourish connects patients …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Docs: in July 2024, Amazon set up Project Greenland to manage and optimize GPU allocation across its retail unit; Amazon says it now has “ample” GPU capacity — - GPU shortages delayed projects in Amazon's retail division last year. — The company created a more efficient approval …
Business Insider: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them “wasteful spending” — - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered cuts at the Pentagon including some consulting contracts.
Effie Webb / Business Insider: Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM — - BI obtained training docs showing how freelancers stress-test AI with “harmful” prompts. — Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers …
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: X users are asking Grok to fact-check posts by tagging @grok, often during political or historical arguments, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others — - People are replying to posts on X — asking Grok: “Is this true?” — It's a new form of dunking on someone on X …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far — - The value of Amazon's investments in Anthropic have soared. — Amazon has agreed to invest $8 billion in Anthropic so far.
Dan Whateley / Business Insider: Maryland-based Uscreen, which helps creators launch apps, engage fans, monetize memberships, and more, raised $150M from PSG Equity, giving PSG a majority stake — - Uscreen, a startup that helps creators make apps, scored a $150 million investment from PSG Equity.
Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others — - Richard “Dick” Kramlich made one of the earliest investments in Apple. — He cofounded NEA in 1977, which now has nearly $26 billion in assets under management.