Anthropic’s Chief Economist Says AI’s Payoff Is Years Away
Peter McIlroy has spent his career explaining that new technology shows up in the productivity numbers later than its backers promise. As chief economist at Anthropic, he now has to…
Samsung and SK Hynix Turn to Light for the Next Bottleneck
For two years, the race in AI semiconductors was about a single number: how many calculations a chip could perform per second. An analysis published in South Korea on September…
LG Electronics Joins Nvidia’s Partner Network to Sell Cooling
For most of its history, LG Electronics sold refrigerators, televisions and washing machines. The announcement it made on September 27 was about something far less visible to consumers: the liquid…
Bill Gates Says Unchecked AI Could “Cause a Billion Deaths”
Bill Gates has spent much of the past three years urging caution about artificial intelligence without ever quite sounding like a doomsayer. On Sunday, he did not sound like one…
Australia Summons OpenAI and Anthropic Chiefs Over a Rogue Agent
On the morning of September 27, a parliamentary committee in Canberra issued a demand that two of the most powerful executives in artificial intelligence rarely receive: appear in person and…
Walmart’s U.S. Chief Draws a Line Against Personalized Pricing
The letter landed on a Friday afternoon, and its purpose was to stop a rumor before it hardened. Walmart, the retailer said, had begun hanging digital price tags in its…
Quantum Computing Draws More Than $4 Billion in Venture Money This Year
The largest single check ever written to a quantum computing company was not from a specialist fund. It came from a group of mainstream investors that included names better known…
Data-Center Buildout Is Paying Welders and Electricians, for Now
The job posting did not ask for a computer science degree or a background in machine learning. It asked for a pipefitter. Across the United States, the companies building and…
Blue Cross Tallies the Cost of AI-Written Claims
The anomaly showed up first in the paperwork, not the patients. Analysts at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association were combing through two years of insurance claims when a number…
AI Data-Center Borrowers Watch the Price of Their Money Rise
Spools of electrical wire sit outside the assembly tents at the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, where crews are still pouring concrete for a campus that will not…
