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Late-stage U.S. growth and venture funds have raised $23.6 billion so far this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2025 and above the totals in any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders,…

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A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are wrong, vertical SaaS up +3% in the last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other thoughts on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

Technology

Founders are increasingly renting multimillion-dollar mansions in wealthy San Francisco neighborhoods as corporate headquarters and hacker homes amid the AI boom (The San Francisco Standard)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Creating Prediction Markets (and Suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara Stripe co-founder…

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The video game industry is shaping up to be one of the biggest casualties of the AI boom, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Embarrassing Meta Delay The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

Technology

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled workers in the U.S., like electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Caroline Haskins / Wired: The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough…

Business & Money

Students and teenagers could fuel the boom

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 15, 2026

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Sport newsletter with Alex Sherman, bringing you the biggest news…

Technology

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm scramble to secure fiberglass, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as AI boom drives demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 14, 2026

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure fiberglass, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI…

Technology

Analysis: The AI investment boom is about 1% of U.S. GDP, about half the share of GDP during the 1990s dot-com boom and comparable to the U.S. shale boom of the mid-2010s (Toby Nangle/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 11, 2026

Toby Nangle / Financial Times: Analysis: The AI investment boom represents about 1% of U.S. GDP, about half the share…

Technology

Q&A with Kara Swisher on the economics of the AI boom, upcoming SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs, Elon Musk, the Trump pivot to the tech industry, robotics, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

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How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales increased 28% year-over-year through September 2025, after increasing 22% to $7.8 billion in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 31, 2025

Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal: How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales…

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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude’s models bought, sold and traded personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)

Europe’s dependence on American companies in the technology and financial sectors is largely its fault, after excessive regulation made European companies too weak to compete (The Economist)

The series, founded by two Yale seniors to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, has raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

JPMorgan and other banks have struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased from Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal)

French forecast office refers suspicion of tampering with weather sensors at Paris airport to police after detecting unusual values alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)

Browsing: boom

Late-stage U.S. growth and venture funds have raised $23.6 billion so far this year, up from $7.4 billion in 2025 and above the totals in any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are wrong, vertical SaaS up +3% in the last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other thoughts on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

Founders are increasingly renting multimillion-dollar mansions in wealthy San Francisco neighborhoods as corporate headquarters and hacker homes amid the AI boom (The San Francisco Standard)

The video game industry is shaping up to be one of the biggest casualties of the AI boom, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled workers in the U.S., like electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

Students and teenagers could fuel the boom

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm scramble to secure fiberglass, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as AI boom drives demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)

Analysis: The AI investment boom is about 1% of U.S. GDP, about half the share of GDP during the 1990s dot-com boom and comparable to the U.S. shale boom of the mid-2010s (Toby Nangle/Financial Times)

Q&A with Kara Swisher on the economics of the AI boom, upcoming SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs, Elon Musk, the Trump pivot to the tech industry, robotics, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar’s power and energy unit; generator sales increased 28% year-over-year through September 2025, after increasing 22% to $7.8 billion in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)