Amazon Pays Corning Billions for Fiber in AI Buildout
Amazon has agreed to pay Corning billions of dollars for optical fiber to connect its U.S. data centers, the latest and largest sign that the AI buildout has moved beyond…
AI Lifts Self-Made Women Billionaires to a Record
The Forbes list of America’s richest self-made women has 43 names on it this year, the most in the ranking’s history, and the biggest move belongs to a woman whose…
Dalio Warns U.S. Debt Has Passed the Point of No Return
Ray Dalio brought a chart to the Forbes summit, and the chart made his argument better than his words could. U.S. federal debt has passed $42 trillion, the annual interest…
Top AI Researcher Says the Field Overhypes Its Stars
When Shunyu Yao told an interviewer that AI researchers are overhyped, he was describing a career that looks, on paper, like the definition of the thing. A Tsinghua undergraduate degree,…
Global Selloff Deepens as AI Trade Unwinds
The selloff that began with an earnings call in Santa Clara ended three days later with a circuit breaker in Seoul. Monday morning, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index opened…
Anthropic’s IPO Push and the Non-Proliferation Pitch
The essay arrived weeks before a listing expected to value Anthropic at $965 billion, and it read like a treaty proposal for the age of artificial intelligence. Anthropic published a…
U.S. Companies Begin Paying DeepSeek Directly
The quarterly report Ramp publishes to show which software tools are winning corporate budgets carried a first on Monday. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab, topped the “breakthrough growth” ranking, the…
SoftBank’s Son Says AI Is Helping Design OpenAI’s Next Model
The disclosure came in passing, in the middle of a public appearance, and it was over in a sentence. Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank, said artificial intelligence systems are…
Amazon Unveils Warehouse Robots That Follow Spoken Commands
The instruction came in plain English, and the machine obeyed. Amazon has unveiled the next generation of its Proteus warehouse robots, which respond to natural-language commands, alongside a new robot…
Model Routing Spreads, Testing AI Pricing Power
The monthly bill had a new line item, and a smaller total. A growing number of companies are adopting software that decides which AI model handles each request, automatically sending…
