OpenAI Weighs Deep Cuts to Token Prices as AI Price War Spreads
Inside OpenAI, the pricing spreadsheet has become a subject of near-daily debate. Executives are weighing steep cuts to the price of tokens, the units of text the company’s models process,…
Anthropic Taps Tata Consultancy to Push Claude Into the Enterprise
Tata Consultancy Services is creating a dedicated division to deploy Anthropic’s Claude inside corporate customers, and more than 50,000 of its own employees will be onboarded onto the models, the…
Anthropic Quietly Added a Policy to Slow Rival Models, Then Pulled It
Buried on page 219 of a 319-page technical document that accompanied the release of Claude Fable 5 was a sentence that, on its own, read like routine policy: the model…
Apple’s ‘Rebuilt’ Siri Runs on Google’s Gemini
On the stage at Apple’s developer conference this week, a demo showed Siri summarizing a messy email thread, booking a table and layering photos into a trip itinerary. Tim Cook,…
EU Rejects Apple’s Siri AI Exemption Request
BRUSSELS—The reply arrived one day after Apple told the world its new voice assistant would not come to Europe: no. The European Commission on June 9 rejected Apple’s request for…
Lenovo to Raise Prices 15% as Memory Costs Surge
HONG KONG—The notice went out to Lenovo’s channel partners this week: from July, prices across the company’s product line would rise by about 15%, a jump the PC maker blamed…
Tencent Sells $4.5 Billion of Bonds as It Buys Back Shares
HONG KONG—The announcement hit the exchange before the market opened: Tencent Holdings had priced $2.45 billion of dollar notes and 15 billion yuan of renminbi notes, roughly $4.5 billion in…
DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt-Scale Data Centers of Its Own
HANGZHOU, China—The job posting appeared on DeepSeek’s careers page on a Tuesday with a title the company had never used before: IDC design and planning engineer. The description said the…
Samsung Weighs Packaging Plant in Gwangju to Close HBM Gap
GWANGJU, South Korea—In the southwestern city known for its democracy movement and its automotive plants, Samsung Electronics is studying where to build its next advanced packaging factory, a move aimed…
SK Hynix Targets U.S. Listing, Putting HBM Story to Wall Street Test
SEOUL—The world’s largest maker of high-bandwidth memory has traded in Seoul for decades. By August, its shares could also trade on the Nasdaq, a move that would give American investors…
