OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers in a Dispute Over Disclosure
The three dismissals happened quietly last week, three researchers out of OpenAI’s safety group, each handed a slightly different reason. They became public when the researchers posted an open letter…
Anthropic’s Test Model Gave Philadelphia Police a Fictional Tip
The message reached the Philadelphia police through the public forum the department keeps for unsolved homicides, sent shortly before midnight on July 18. It claimed to come from someone with…
A Memory Chipmaker Has Sold More Than It Can Ship in a Quarter
The clearest sign of how tight the market for AI memory chips has become came on an earnings call in early October, when Kash Shaikh, the chief executive of Penguin…
A Startup Worth $200 Million Three Weeks Ago Just Raised at $7.5 Billion
On September 15, a San Francisco company called TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with a 40-million-dollar seed round led by DCVC and a valuation of roughly 200 million dollars. Twenty-four…
Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Writes Its First Check to a Homegrown Tech Bet
ABP, the pension fund for Dutch government and education workers, is the biggest retirement pool in the Netherlands and one of the largest on earth. So when it announced on…
An AI Scorekeeper’s Valuation Doubles in Ten Months
The most expensive companies in artificial intelligence sell capability. Arena sells a smaller product: a way to tell whether that capability is real. On October 8, the evaluation platform closed…
Oracle’s Debt Load Passes $169 Billion as It Chases More AI Chips
The number is now large enough that it is hard to ignore. Oracle, the cloud company that has transformed itself into a landlord for artificial-intelligence computing, has interest-bearing debt above…
Eleven Companies Pledge $2.4 Billion in Computing to a U.S. Science Push
The pledges came one after another at a White House summit, each a round number attached to a familiar name. By the end of October 8, eleven technology companies had…
Samsung Locks Up Nearly 80% of Next Year’s Memory Supply
The memory-chip business used to run on quarterly haggling, with buyers and sellers meeting to settle prices every few months and leaving the rest to the spot market. That model…
GlobalFoundries to Build a Key Chip-Packaging Part for TSMC in New York
The part is small, flat and unglamorous, a thin slice of silicon that no consumer ever sees. It is also one of the reasons the world’s AI accelerators cannot be…
