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Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and nine other companies launched the Agentic Resource Discovery protocol to counter Anthropic's MCP dominance. There is one problem. ARD does not replace MCP. It sits on top of it. The coalition built a discovery layer for the very protocol they are trying to compete with.
Europe will spend $80B on sovereign cloud while every EU gigafactory boots on Nvidia silicon with keys it doesn't hold. The lower layer always wins.
A company-by-company teardown of every major AI-driven layoff in 2026: the numbers, the ones that backfired, and what the C-suite won't say out loud.
Google killed Chromebooks, launched Googlebooks, merged Android and ChromeOS, and embedded an AI cursor that watches your screen. All in one event.
Microsoft's emissions are up 23%, it's building a $7B gas plant with Chevron, and may drop its 2030 clean-energy goal. The sustainability paradox is here.
OpenAI spent $6.4B on Jony Ive's startup to build an always-listening device, already delayed to 2027. The AI hardware graveyard is full. The cloud works.
Opus 4.7 took #1 on Arena, SWE-bench jumped 7, vision tripled. But MRCR fell 46 points and the tokenizer quietly inflated costs. What benchmarks miss.
Eigen Labs turns idle Macs into AI compute nodes where the owner cannot see your prompts. How the private-inference network works, and what breaks.
GPT-5.4-Cyber finds bugs and chains exploits. OpenAI gives it to thousands of vetted defenders; Anthropic locked its version to 40 orgs. Two bets.
A new IETF draft proposes IPv8: 64-bit addresses, IPv4 as a subset, 8 services in one Zone Server. What is genuinely novel, and what is fantasy.