Samsung Projects Q1 2026 Operating Profit of $37.8 Billion - Up Eightfold in a Year - as AI Chip Demand Creates a Memory Supercycle
The preliminary earnings guidance smashed analyst estimates by 35%, with revenue hitting 133 trillion won - its first-ever quarterly revenue above 100 trillion won - as data centers absorbed 60% of Samsung's DRAM shipments
AI Is Now the Leading Reason Given for Tech Layoffs - But Is It Actually True?
Over 52,000 US tech jobs disappeared in Q1 2026, a 40% jump from the same period last year - and AI was explicitly cited in 25% of March layoffs alone. Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, and the data tell a more complicated story.
Scotland Launches Its 2026-2031 AI Strategy With a National Program, an SME Adoption Push, and a £15 Billion AI Infrastructure Zone in North Ayrshire
The five-year plan delivered through AI Scotland - a new national transformation program led by the Scottish Government with The Data Lab, Scottish Enterprise, and regional agencies - targets responsible growth, workforce readiness, and green data center infrastructure
Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing With 40+ Partners to Deploy Its Most Powerful Model Yet - Claude Mythos - for Defensive Cybersecurity
The model that Anthropic's leaked draft called "far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities" has been officially previewed with Amazon, Apple, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks - and it already found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities
AI Business Weekly - April 7, 2026: OpenAI Wants a Robot Tax. Microsoft Says Its AI Is "Entertainment Only."
Five stories revealing OpenAI's New Deal-scale economic blueprint, Microsoft's Copilot reliability gap, Visa's bet that AI agents will complete your purchases by holiday 2026, daydream's AI-native SEO agency raise, and Riplo rebuilding how consultants work
Riplo Raises £2.3 Million to Build an AI Operating System for the $1 Trillion Consulting Industry Still Running on Digital Typewriters
Backed by Cherry Ventures and the founders of McKinsey's QuantumBlack, the London startup is building an agent-first interface where AI and human consultants work together in real time - replacing workflows that have barely changed in decades
Visa Is Betting That 2026 Is the Year AI Agents Stop Assisting Your Shopping and Start Completing It
With 47% of US shoppers already using AI tools for at least one purchase task and AI-driven retail traffic up 4,700% in 2025, Visa's Intelligent Commerce platform is building the infrastructure layer for a world where machines transact on behalf of humans
Microsoft's Own Terms of Service Call Copilot "For Entertainment Purposes Only" - And Its Adoption Numbers Explain Why
Buried under bold capital letters in terms updated October 2025, the clause "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk" surfaces as a striking gap between enterprise marketing and legal positioning - as only 3.3% of eligible Microsoft 365 users pay for it
daydream Raises $15 Million to Build an AI-Native SEO Agency That Combines Agents With Human Experts as Generative AI Rewrites Search
Backed by WndrCo, First Round Capital, and Basis Set Ventures, daydream is betting that most companies are still optimizing for a version of search that no longer exists - and that agents plus senior SEO expertise is the only model that works in the AI search era
OpenAI Releases a Blueprint for the AI Economy - Calling for Robot Taxes, a Public Wealth Fund, and a Four-Day Work Week
The 13-page document titled "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" arrives as OpenAI approaches an IPO, with Sam Altman comparing the scale of change ahead to the Progressive Era and New Deal - and critics noting the company building the disruption is also proposing the solution
