U.S. and Russia Remove Human-Review Rule From Draft AI Weapons Pact
The sentence was short, and it was the one arms-control advocates cared about most: a requirement that any target generated by artificial intelligence be reviewed by a human being before…
Google’s AI Reaches for the Checkout as Its Models Surface on Dark-Web Markets
A shopper in India asking Google’s Gemini for a phone recommendation this week saw something that would have been unremarkable in an ordinary store and is new in an AI…
OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Andreessen Horowitz Starts a College With 50 Seats and No Diplomas
The course catalog reads like a guest list at a technology conference. Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati and Travis Kalanick appear on the same faculty…
Crusoe Drops a $1.25 Billion Turbine Order as Power Plans Shift
Blake Scholl announced the cancellation himself, in a post on X, the way founders increasingly deliver news that would once have gone through a press release. The chief executive of…
SoftBank Prices $11.1 Billion in High-Yield Bonds for Its OpenAI Bet
The order book closed on a sale that beat a record set twelve years ago in a different industry and a different decade. SoftBank Group completed an $11.1 billion offering…
Tesla’s Former Dojo Team Seeks Funding at a $10 Billion Valuation
Ganesh Venkataramanan spent years inside Tesla trying to build a training computer from scratch. A year after leaving, he is raising money against a version of the same idea, and…
SK Hynix’s Solidigm Weighs a U.S. Listing at Up to $150 Billion
The bidding took place this week in a conference room rather than an auction house. Investment banks pitched for roles on what could be one of the largest American listings…
Nscale Raises $3.36 Billion in Convertible Debt Ahead of Listing
The first tranche lands at closing. The second is committed but unpaid, and it waits on a listing that has not happened yet. London-based AI cloud provider Nscale said on…
Apple’s Own Software Leaks Three Products as Market Value Passes $5 Trillion
Aaron Perris, a writer at MacRumors, found the images the way he has found products before: inside Apple’s own code. On September 25, images of unreleased devices appeared in an…
