CleanSpark Names Meta as the Tenant of Its Georgia Campus
CleanSpark spent months letting the market guess who would occupy the AI campus it is building in Georgia. On September 17, the bitcoin miner ended the guessing in a set…
Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion and Pivots to Truckable AI Factories
Crusoe began in 2018 by mining bitcoin with natural gas that would otherwise have been flared into the air. On September 17, the company that grew out of that trick…
Karp Floats Nationalizing AI Labs as a Last Resort
The AI safety debate has produced plenty of warnings over the past year, but on September 17 one of the industry’s sharpest critics put a price on the risk that…
Microsoft Memo Casts AI Scraping as ‘the Largest Theft of Labor’
The documents had been redacted for months, and on September 17 a court lifted the black bars. Inside the copyright suit that The New York Times brought against OpenAI and…
Google DeepMind Launches an Institute, and Hassabis Proposes a U.S. AI Standards Body
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched a new research institute on September 16, and its opening publications carry a proposal that reaches beyond research. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind chief executive,…
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Biology Lab to Make Its Own Drugs
Anthropic is doing more than selling tools to drugmakers; it is setting up to do the drug discovery itself. The AI developer is advancing a biology laboratory of its own,…
OpenAI Brings Astra to Law Firms With a 230-Million-URL Legal Index
OpenAI is selling its most capable model to the legal profession. On September 17 the company released Astra for Law, a product that pairs GPT-6 Astra, its strongest system, with…
Nokia Extends Microsoft Deal, and Its Stock Climbs
Nokia’s shares jumped more than 7 percent intraday on September 17, touching $10.86 at the high, after the Finnish equipment maker said it would deepen its partnership with Microsoft and…
OpenAI Is Said to Be Close to Solving Another Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI appears to be closing in on another of the hardest problems in mathematics. The company is close to solving the Hodge Conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems,…
Nvidia’s Huang Says Next Year’s Chip Sales Will Roughly Double
Jensen Huang put a number on his company’s trajectory. The Nvidia chief executive said on September 17 that the company expects to sell roughly twice as many chips next year…
