IBM Lost $70 Billion in a Day: How One AI Reality Check Shook Wall Street
Introduction On July 14, 2026, IBM had one of the worst trading days in its 115-year history. Shares plunged as much as 26% intraday, wiping…
Ethan Brooks4 min readAI
Ethan Brooks4 min read
OpenAI’s First Hardware Device: Everything We Know So Far
Introduction For years, OpenAI has talked about building hardware, but the details stayed frustratingly vague. That changed this week. New reporting from Bloomberg, followed by…
Aditi Rao5 min read
From $100M to $1.5B in a Year: Indian AI Coding Startup Emergent Is Now a Unicorn
Emergent, an Indian AI coding startup, has officially become a unicorn. The company raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5…
Daniel Carter3 min read
OpenAI’s First Gadget Isn’t a Phone — It’s a Screenless Speaker That Moves on Its Own
OpenAI’s Hardware Ambitions Take Shape After years of hints, hires, and speculation, OpenAI’s long-promised move into physical hardware finally has a shape — and it’s…
Ethan Brooks4 min read
Anthropic’s Newest Commercial Ad Is Creeping People Out — Here’s Why
A Burning House Is Not a Great Opener There’s an old, mostly unspoken rule in advertising: you don’t open your commercial with a house on…
Ethan Brooks4 min read
Apple’s Siri AI Gets Its Biggest Overhaul Yet, Now Open to Everyone in the iOS 27 Public Beta
The Biggest Apple Siri Overhaul Ever Goes Public If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s redesigned Siri without messing around with a developer beta, that…
Ethan Brooks4 min read
OpenAI’s New Flagship Model, GPT-5.6 Sol, Deletes Files on Its Own — And People Keep Warning About It
A Pattern of Destructive Surprises Barely a week after OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol alongside its new enterprise product, ChatGPT Work, developers across social media began…
Ethan Brooks4 min read
Google’s SECRET 8 AI Tools Just REPLACED Every Paid AI Tool
Most people know Google’s AI story as “Gemini, the chatbot.” That’s a bit like calling a smartphone a calculator. Underneath the familiar chat window sits…
Ethan Brooks11 min read
Sam Altman’s Space Data Center Trash Talk Echoes What Most Experts Already Believe
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are, once again, airing their rivalry in public — and this time, the flashpoint is space-based data centers. Over the…
Ethan Brooks5 min read
Spotify Deepens Its AI Push With a ChatGPT-Style Music Assistant
Spotify is taking another step deeper into AI, and this time it’s bringing a conversational assistant directly into the core listening experience. On Tuesday, July…
Ethan Brooks4 min read