After decades of hype, quantum computers are starting to deliver on their original promise as tools for scientific discovery. In 2025, researchers used them to tackle real problems in particle physics, condensed matter, and materials science, marking a subtle but significant shift.
Stephen Witt, author of the Jensen Huang biography “The Thinking Machine,” argues Google is the single biggest risk to NVIDIA. He claims Huang is driven by a fear of failure, which has fueled the chipmaker’s rise to a $5 trillion valuation.
OpenAI’s valuation is on a rocket ship. After hitting $300 billion in August, it’s now reportedly targeting a $750 billion valuation in its next funding round, with Amazon and Disney making massive bets.
OpenAI is rolling out a major update to ChatGPT focused on teen safety. The move comes after the company faced lawsuits alleging the AI coached teens to take their own lives.
While everyone debated AGI, Salient built AI to collect car loans. Its focus on a painful, manual process has led to explosive growth, zero customer churn, and a half-billion dollar valuation. They’re proving that boring AI can be wildly profitable.
AI music companies Suno and Udio are settling copyright lawsuits with major labels, but the deals only protect signed artists. The model rewards infringement and leaves thousands of independent creators uncompensated.
The term “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) is falling out of favor with the very CEOs who built their companies on it. Now, they’re inventing a slew of new acronyms with softer, friendlier branding. The shift is driven by vague definitions, contract drama, and public fear.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has laid out the staggering price of staying in the AI race. He says it will take “hundreds of billions of dollars” over the next 5-10 years, a scale that may leave startups behind.
A federal appeals court just breathed new life into the Corporate Transparency Act, ruling it’s constitutional. This reverses a major lower court decision and puts the spotlight back on a law requiring millions of small businesses to report their owners’ personal details to the government.
Jim Cramer is sounding the alarm on circular “Lazy Susan” deals in tech, where money essentially changes hands between companies like OpenAI and Amazon. He warns this lack of financial discipline is a red flag for investors until someone says “no.”
