The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

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OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

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The domain aftermarket continues to boom with high end sales on multiple fronts. Thanks to research done by George Kirikos (who has found and verified more previously unreported sales, by far, than anyone in the industry) two more seven figure sales that were buried in 1Q-2026 financial reports have been unearthed.

An ICANN-backed African internet-governance initiative exposed a deeper institutional problem: whether global coordinators must warn when regional policy processes drift into RIR governance, before facilitation, silence and funding harden into implied legitimacy for contested reforms.

Universal Acceptance Day 2026 marks progress toward a multilingual internet, as UNESCO and ICANN deepen cooperation. Yet unresolved implementation failures and weak registry stewardship still hinder truly inclusive digital access worldwide.

Iran's wartime internet restrictions transformed online access into a costly, unequal system, according to researcher Imad Payande, with black markets, selective connectivity and institutional privilege reshaping how citizens reached the global web.