Nvidia-Backed British Cloud Firm Files for New York Listing
The company that Britain’s technology press has taken to calling the “British Oracle” is taking its listing to New York. Nscale, a London-based provider of AI cloud computing backed by…
SoftBank Plans Record Junk-Bond Sale to Fund OpenAI Investment
Bankers working for SoftBank Group spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on one of the largest high-yield bond offerings a single company has ever brought to market. By Monday,…
Tim Cook Meets Australian PM, Calls Social Media Rules ‘World-Leading’
Tim Cook, the executive chairman of Apple, met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Apple Park on September 19, and came away having told the prime minister that Australia’s…
Massachusetts and California Tighten AI Rules in Tandem
Two governors moved on the same day to impose new controls on artificial intelligence, a coordinated-looking push from states that have decided Washington will not act for them. On September…
Virginia Governor Signs Order Curbing Data Center Secrecy
Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia signed an executive order on September 18 that bars state agencies from signing confidentiality agreements on data center projects and tightens the approval process for…
Microsoft Fixes a Perfect-Scored Flaw in Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft patched a vulnerability in Azure AI Foundry on September 18 that carried the highest possible severity score, a CVSS rating of 10.0, after determining that a critical function in…
Microsoft’s Suleyman Says Controlling AI Will Be a ‘Genuinely Huge Challenge’
Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft’s AI business, said in an interview on September 18 that controlling advanced artificial intelligence will be a “really, really big challenge” for the…
a16z Leads a $40 Million Round in AI Evaluation Startup Vals
Vals, a startup that sells private tests for measuring the abilities of artificial-intelligence models, has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company…
Samsung’s HBM4 Yield Stabilizes Near 80 Percent
Samsung Electronics has stabilized the yield on its sixth-generation HBM4 memory at roughly 80 percent, according to a report in the Seoul Economic Daily, a level that lets the company…
FTC Raises Amazon Prime Refund Cap to $200
A federal court this week approved a joint motion from the Federal Trade Commission and Amazon to expand the refund program in the Prime “deceptive enrollment” settlement, raising the maximum…
