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Tech companies have cut 142,000 jobs in 2026 while committing roughly $700 billion to AI infrastructure — with entry-level software engineering jobs down nearly 20 percent and profitable companies explicitly tying layoffs to AI investment acceleration.
Jeff Bezos publicly dismissed AI bubble concerns on CNBC, arguing that even a bubble-driven buildout creates lasting infrastructure value — while revealing he is backing a $6.2 billion physical-world AI startup.
The Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 is the year's most rigorous benchmark of where AI actually stands. Here are the 12 findings that matter most for businesses, policymakers, and anyone making decisions about AI.
More than $3 billion has flowed into AI-powered precision agriculture for crop micronutrients. John Deere covers 5 million acres. Syngenta manages 70 million hectares. Smallholder farmers are being left behind.
OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding round—one of the largest private fundraises in the history of technology—to fuel compute infrastructure buildout, model development, and an expanding enterprise product suite.
A new NVIDIA survey finds 89% of financial services firms plan to increase AI investment over the next 12 months, up from 65% last year, as the industry shifts from experimental pilots to measurable returns.
A new NVIDIA survey finds 89% of telecom companies plan to grow AI spending — up from 65% last year — with network automation now the industry's top AI priority ahead of customer experience.
For the first time, network automation has overtaken customer service as telecoms' top AI investment priority — a structural shift from chatbots to the infrastructure layer itself.