UMG, TikTok Renew Pact With New AI Music Rules
Last year, a wave of AI-generated covers, pop hits sung by voices that no longer needed singers, sent the music industry scrambling. Labels watched recordings they did not authorize circulate…
Uber Burns Through Its AI Budget in Four Months
Uber Technologies set an artificial intelligence budget for 2026 that was supposed to last the year. It lasted four months. Andrew Macdonald, the company’s president, said publicly that Uber exhausted…
Pichai on AI Search: ‘The Foot of the Mountain Is Here’
For most of the past two decades, the question of what keeps Sundar Pichai up at night would have been answered with a list of regulators and rivals. This week,…
Samsung Union Moves to Block Pay Vote Over Bonus Gap
At Samsung Electronics, the size of a year-end bonus now depends almost entirely on which part of the company you work for. A union representing the company’s non-chip divisions has…
At Cisco, AI Raises Output but Lowers Trust
A network engineer in one of Cisco Systems’ offices has a question about a routing protocol. Instead of walking to a colleague’s desk or pinging the team chat, she pastes…
Micron Joins $1 Trillion Club as Memory Prices Surge
A stock that many investors had written off as a cyclical also-ran has become one of the fastest ways to bet on the AI boom. Micron Technology shares jumped 18%…
Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over AI Marketing
In June 2024, Apple took the stage at its developer conference and promised a new era of artificial intelligence: Apple Intelligence, a suite of features the company pitched as its…
SK Hynix Builds Cooling Into Its Next-Generation Memory
Inside the newest artificial-intelligence data centers, the hottest components are no longer the processors doing the calculations. The memory chips stacked beside them, eight, twelve, or sixteen layers of silicon,…
TSMC Denies Benefit Cuts as Strike Talk Spreads
On factory floors and internal message boards across Taiwan this past week, conversation turned to a subject the world’s largest contract chip maker has rarely had to address: walking off…
Google Resets Gemini Quotas to Placate Developers
A developer asks a chatbot to fix a typo, draft a function, or summarize an email, and watches the same meter drain that a heavy coding session uses. Complaints of…
