The deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement…
Month: April 2026
OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files…
Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down
Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing…
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over
Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple’s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue…
WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps
Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive ringtones, and expanded pinned…
Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference
Summary: Google is building the AI industry’s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU now shipping in…
Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images
Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised images overall over an…
The 8 best supplier management software platforms: The 2026 buyer’s guide
As of 2026, I’ve spent more than 10 years analyzing procurement technology and supply chain logistics for public companies. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from these audits, it’s that managing suppliers…
Intelligent Investing founder Arnout Ter Schure on integrating AI capabilities with human market insight and structure
Intelligent Investing, a research-driven market analysis platform, works from the premise that artificial intelligence can expand financial forecasting by processing large datasets, accelerating strategy development, and enabling systematic execution. Alongside these capabilities,…
Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral
The “AI has killed software” narrative has a handful of very loud beneficiaries and a lot of quiet evidence against it. The companies that will survive the next five years are the…