Modal Labs Nears a $750 Million Round Led by Accel at $15.75 Billion
Modal Labs, a company that lets developers run AI models without managing their own servers, is closing in on a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75…
Google Retires the Assistant on Android and Folds Gems Into Skills
For a decade, holding down a button on an Android phone summoned Google Assistant, a voice that answered questions, set timers and controlled smart-home devices. This week, across the United…
Meta Hires a Database Chief to Run Its Push Into Business Software
When Meta went looking for someone to run its new enterprise AI business, it did not pick a research scientist. It picked Chirantan “CJ” Desai, the chief executive of the…
Tech Chiefs Dine at the White House as Washington Reopens the AI Question
The guest list was the headline. On September 29, Donald Trump sat down at the White House with Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sundar Pichai of Google,…
At DevDay, OpenAI Wagers Its Roadmap on Agents
Sam Altman will walk onto a stage at Fort Mason in San Francisco on September 29 with an audience the company has primed to expect something it has refused to…
Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Its Buyback Authorization
The number needs a frame to be understood. Nvidia’s board, on September 28, added $150 billion to the company’s share-repurchase authorization — a sum larger than the entire market value…
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 Billion Bet on Physical AI
The woman who built the dataset that helped ignite modern AI spent this year telling audiences she wanted to be closer to the hardware. On September 28, she got her…
Faraday Future Folds Its Robotics Unit Into a Nasdaq Listing
On September 30, a ticker on the Nasdaq will change. The listed company known as AIxC becomes FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc., trading under the symbol FFR. Two days earlier,…
OpenAI Scraps a Model It Had Called Its Strongest
The superlatives were already on record. When OpenAI’s Astra family debuted this month, the company described it as the strongest model it had ever built. Now the next model in…
Anthropic Puts Top-Tier Guardrails on a Cheaper Sonnet
Anthropic’s announcement for Sonnet 5.5, posted on September 28, opened with a price list rather than a benchmark chart: $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, and…
