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James Whitaker
Technology Editor
Reports on semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, and the industrial politics of AI.
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FAST Channels India: TRAI's Channel Fees Dwarf the App FeeTech
PHP2Shell: Amazon's WAF Rules Trailed Its Own HoneypotTech
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt: Hardware and LicenseTech
Cosmos 2612 and ICEYE X36: Gap Widens After Oct. 18 BurnTech
Workday Layoffs: 2 Cuts in Under 8 Months, $200M+ in ChargesTech
HubSpot Layoffs: Charge Tops Q2 Operating Income, $65M+Tech
Zero-Click Spyware Ads: What Discover-Tech's Bid Data ShowsTech
Bank of America Mythos Costs: Consultants Sit Off HeadcountTech
Fermi Stock News: Founder Files to Sell as AMD Deal LandsTech
Microsoft Maia 300 AI Chip: What Multi-Gigawatt MeansTech
Nvidia Reflection AI Talks: Groq Deal Was 85% GoodwillTech
Cloudflare Acquires Deno: What Happens to the Deno RuntimeTech
Is Starlink Available in India? What's Really Blocking ItTech
CoreWeave Stock: India Data Center Won't Pay Off Until 2028Tech
Arthur Hayes Warns of AI Overbuilding and Bets on CryptoTech
What DeepSeek and Etched Say About AI ValuationsTech
Underdog Launches as Private AI AssistantTech
AI Decision Models Shift Content ModerationTech
AI Agents Face Growing Website Access BarriersTech
Anthropic Expands Claude Startups ProgramTech
Mistral AI Debuts One-Trillion-Parameter ModelTech
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Full Breakout Agenda RevealedTech
Glimpse Wants to Give Hardware Companies an X-Ray ViewTech
OpenAI Begins Text Watermarking for ChatGPT in EUTech
Hot Girl Hotline Delivers AI Dating AdviceTech
HackerRank Launches Chakra AI InterviewerTech
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 JudgesTech
Safeworld Launches to Secure Gen AI RobotsTech
Can Super Intelligence Fix AI's Image?Tech
Amazon Drops Government NDAs amid Data Center BacklashTech
Tesla Cybercab Faces Scaling Hurdles After Austin RolloutTech
OpenAI Safety Employee ResignsTech
Trump Order Sparks Massive Surge in Slovenia Si DomainsTech
Epic Pauses Product Development to Fix Patient Data BugsTech
Wall Street Banks Drive Surge in Agent OrchestrationTech
Wall Street banks drive 1,721% surge in demand for AI agent orchestration talentTech
Bitget expects minimal recovery from $387.5 million hack, CEO saysTech
Kevin Mandia launches cybersecurity startup Armadin with $255.5M at $2.5B valuationTech
Lyft agrees to $272.5 million settlement in driver classification lawsuitTech
California law establishes fines for robotaxi operators that block first respondersTech
Interpol warns artificial intelligence is accelerating speed and scale of cyber threatsTech
SpaceX launches Google AI chips into orbit in push toward space-based data centersTech
Jim Cramer designates Akamai the sole buy among three internet traffic cop stocks benefiting from AI trafficTech
Software stocks rebound in third quarter as sector rotation pulls capital from cooling chipmakersTech
Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's presidentTech
CNBC AI Forum focuses on enterprise scaling, security, and governance in DallasTech
Google places advanced chip in orbit to test viability of space data centersTech
Amazon Web Services launches Strands Decider 2B decision model through Strand LabsTech
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft, adding to executive departuresTech
Dow's rough month, Micron's revenue surge, and Google's Gemini 4 launch shape market openingTech
Micron reports strong fourth-quarter earnings and guidance as data center revenue surgesTech
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuationTech
Jim Cramer says 'frozen' conditions are holding back U.S. stocksTech
Apple absent from Trump administration AI executive luncheonTech
Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to lead 120-day warfare studyTech
OpenAI flags Chinese-linked effort to extract AI model reasoningTech
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs legislation banning AI 'robo-bosses' from firing workersTech
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to assist Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth saysTech
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon, its most advanced AI modelTech
OpenAI releases Decisions API as a Jev clone to govern swarming autonomous agents