A 200,000-Seat Copilot Order Lands on the Firms That Must Change the Work
On Tuesday, Microsoft said it had signed agreements with four of India’s largest information-technology services firms, each committing to deploy more than 50,000 licenses of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Tata Consultancy…
Anthropic Hands Investors the Numbers and Lets Them Set the Price
At its headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic gave a group of institutional investors its third-quarter financials and asked them, in effect, to name a price. They came back…
ASML Raises Its Outlook and Says Its Own Factories Can’t Keep Up
Christophe Fouquet runs the company that makes the machines that make advanced chips, and on Wednesday he told investors that his customers have started asking about delivery slots for 2029…
SpaceX Agrees to Testify in New York, Weeks After Skipping a Hearing
The seat reserved for SpaceXAI at New York’s City Council stayed empty on Oct. 5, while executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta answered questions under oath for nearly ten…
OpenAI’s Proof Deluge Leaves Mathematics With a Verification Problem
On a video call convened by the French Mathematical Society, Hugo Duminil-Copin, who won a Fields Medal in 2022, told colleagues he had wept the night before, hard enough to…
A Bug in the Boardroom, and a Subpoena for OpenAI’s Hiring Files
Tuesday delivered OpenAI two problems with the same shape: information the company did not intend to give up. In San Francisco, federal prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer with planting a…
Nvidia Trades Compute for a Place in Europe’s AI Stack
Nvidia is spending in Europe the way a company spends when it wants to be part of the plumbing rather than a supplier standing at the edge of it. On…
Google’s Best Model Arrives With a Discount and an Expiration Date
Google opened its most capable artificial-intelligence model to developers, enterprises and consumers on Tuesday, and put the detail that matters most to buyers in a footnote. Gemini 4 Argon is…
OpenAI Opens Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
In the first week of June, about 25 engineers from Trail of Bits fanned out across the code that much of the internet runs on. Working with OpenAI on an…
Six Days and $40,000 to Break Chrome’s Sandbox
The proof of concept is almost anticlimactic. A page loads in a signed build of Chrome Beta, and the calculator application appears on the desktop. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is…
