AI's Debt Wave Hits $570B as Amazon Borrows $17.5B
Morgan Stanley projects $570B in AI-linked global debt issuance for 2026, more than double last year, as Amazon's $17.5B term loan reveals capex now consuming virtually all hyperscaler cash flows.
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Best AI Coding IDEs 2026: Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Zed, Copilot
A benchmark-driven comparison of the five leading AI coding IDEs in 2026, covering pricing, agent capabilities, and who each one is actually built for.
Best AI Coding Agents 2026: 6 Tools Tested and Ranked
A benchmark-driven comparison of Claude Code, Kiro, Devin, OpenAI Codex, Windsurf, and OpenHands - the six coding agents worth using in 2026.
Enterprise AI Platform Pricing - May 2026
Amazon Q Lite stays cheapest at $3/user, ChatGPT Business dropped to $20 annual, and Anthropic shifted Enterprise to pure usage-based billing.
Meta Taps Amazon CPUs to Power Agentic AI at Scale
Meta signs a multi-year AWS deal to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores, betting that agentic AI workloads need CPUs more than GPUs.
Amazon Bets $25B on Anthropic and 5GW of Trainium
Amazon will invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, cementing Trainium as Claude's primary compute platform.
Anthropic Ships $100M AI Cyber Defense to 12 Rivals
Project Glasswing unites AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and seven other organizations with $100M in credits for Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model to patch critical infrastructure before attackers catch up.
OpenAI's $122B Round Adds Retail Access Before IPO
OpenAI closed its funding round at $122 billion and $852 billion valuation on March 31, with $3 billion going to retail investors via banks for the first time.
Inside Amazon's Trainium Lab - How It Beat NVIDIA
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.
Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
OpenAI Brings AWS Into Its U.S. Government Push
OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
Iran Targets US Tech Facilities - What It Means for AI
Iran's IRGC designated facilities of Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir across Israel and the Gulf as legitimate targets - with AWS data centers already struck by drones.
