Judge Orders X and xAI to Hand Over Apple Deal to OpenAI
The fight started over a demand for documents, not a verdict. OpenAI, already locked in an antitrust dispute with Elon Musk’s companies, wanted to see the terms of a separate…
Nokia Presses Deeper Into AI Networks With Nvidia
The press release read like a roster rather than an announcement, and that was the point. On September 16, Nokia named eight telecom operators across four continents that are moving…
Apple Maps a Return to Servers Built on Its Own Silicon
The last time Apple sold a server to the public, the iPhone 4 was new and the company was still deciding whether the future belonged to phones or to something…
Data-Center Spending Jumped 92% in the Second Quarter, Dell’Oro Says
Global spending on data centers grew 92 percent in the second quarter of 2026 compared with a year earlier, according to research firm Dell’Oro Group, a rate of expansion that…
Salesforce Goes Dark During Dreamforce as Benioff Unveils AIForce
Salesforce suffered a global service outage on September 16, the same week it was supposed to be showing customers the future of its software. The outage struck during Dreamforce, the…
Amazon Lifts Entry Pay to $20 an Hour and Builds More Same-Day Hubs
Amazon said on September 16 that it will raise the minimum starting wage for its core US operations jobs to 20 dollars an hour, bringing average pay in those roles…
Anthropic Plants a Flag in Australia and Singapore
Anthropic signed its first Australian data-center agreement on September 16, committing to a project Reuters described as part of roughly $22 billion of data-center construction in the country. On the…
Nvidia’s Rubin Chips Reach Data Centers as CoreWeave Switches On First Clusters
The racks went live one at a time, but the message was meant to be read as a wave. On September 16, CoreWeave brought online multi-rack clusters of Nvidia’s Vera…
Samsung Moves to Outsource DDR5 Output to Make Room for HBM
The factory floor has to make a choice, and Samsung has made it. The Korean giant is planning to outsource part of its DDR5 production to free up manufacturing lines…
Meta Lines Up TSMC to Build Its Next AI Chip and Bundles Subscriptions
The chip has a code name and a deadline. Meta plans to deploy a new generation of self-developed AI chips in the first half of 2027, fabricated by TSMC, according…
