Alphabet boosts capital spending to fuel data centers, AI infrastructure in 2026
Alphabet is sharply increasing its bet on generative artificial intelligence, lifting its 2026 capital spending plans to as much as US$185 billion as it races to expand computing capacity for its own products and a growing roster of AI partners. The Google parent company said on its earnings call Wednesday that it now expects full-year […]
OpenAI and Anthropic go head-to-head with same-day AI model launches
The competition between OpenAI and Anthropic intensified this week after both companies unveiled new artificial intelligence models on the same day. Anthropic launched Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, while OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, with each positioning its model as a leap forward in agent-based coding and long-running work tasks. The near-simultaneous releases highlighted how closely matched the […]
Bank of Canada governor warns AI could be weighing on youth employment
Artificial intelligence may already be cutting into entry-level job opportunities for young people in Canada, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said Thursday, as he outlined a set of structural forces reshaping the country’s economic future. Speaking in Toronto, he said Canada is facing long-term changes driven by three forces: rising trade barriers with the […]
Wikipedia positions itself as a defence against AI slop
The Wikimedia Foundation announced in January that it is partnering with major AI companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity, to integrate Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects into their systems. The stated aim is to feed AI models with “human-governed knowledge” — content written, reviewed and enforced by people rather than generated en […]
