Meta’s Muse Chat Draws Fire from Adult Creators
Vanniall has about a hundred thousand followers on Instagram. Her account is still restricted, in a state that requires a user to log in before viewing it, and the sexually…
Amodei Says Culture Takes Up to 40% of His Time as IPO Talk Grows
Dario Amodei says the most important part of his working day is the part that does not appear on any product roadmap. In an interview published by Fortune on October…
A Small Protest Meets London’s Robotaxi Trials
About fifteen people gathered outside the London office of Wayve on October 17, holding signs and asking for a stop to road testing of driverless taxis. The group cited safety,…
Intel Pushes Its AI Inference Software onto Xeon Servers
Most of the queries that artificial intelligence systems answer will never touch the most expensive chip in the building. Intel’s argument, made in a release on October 17, is that…
Tenstorrent Hires Bankers as the Chip Startup Weighs Its Options
For five years Tenstorrent has sold itself as the chip company that would rather license its designs than become another capital-hungry manufacturer of accelerators. On October 17 the company hired…
Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Residents of a township in Wayne County, Michigan, brought the same two complaints to the planning department that their counterparts have brought in a dozen states: the water, and the…
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
On the morning the iPhone Duo went on sale, the line outside Apple’s stores formed the way it has for a decade: folding chairs, coffee, a few people who had…
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
The road into Taylor, Texas, runs past a school district, a row of grain silos and, since 2022, a construction site large enough to see from the county highway. On…
Anthropic’s Internal Report Finds Junior Engineers at 14% of Technical Staff
A graduate who joined Anthropic’s engineering organization in early 2025 walked into a team where roughly one in five technical employees was at a similar stage in their career. Eighteen…
