SpaceX Logs Its 700th Falcon Launch and Maps Orbital Compute
SpaceX reached a round number on September 13, and used the moment to talk about the next one. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the afternoon, carrying…
Tesla Opens a Vietnam Unit to Reach Southeast Asia
Tesla has put down its first corporate footprint in Vietnam. The company registered Tesla Motors Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City on September 11, according to a business registration filing…
Oracle Begins a New Round of Job Cuts
Oracle started cutting jobs again on September 14, extending a restructuring that has now touched roughly a fifth of its workforce over the past year and a half. Some teams…
Senate Drafts a Duty-of-Care Bill as Labs Build Their Own Watchdog
Two tracks of AI governance are now moving at once, and they may end up competing. The Senate is drafting a bill that would impose a “duty of care” on…
Microsoft Lays Out Rules for AI That Cannot Resist Shutdown
Microsoft put its expectations for artificial intelligence on paper over the weekend, and the paper is firm. The company published a draft “AI Behavior Code” of roughly 9,000 words on…
Anthropic Selects Nasdaq for a Listing Before the Midterms
Anthropic has picked its exchange. The artificial-intelligence company has selected Nasdaq for its initial public offering, according to a Business Insider report on September 13 that Bloomberg, CNBC, and Reuters…
Washington Rejects Calls to Slow the AI Frontier
Donald Trump spent part of his weekend in Ireland dismissing the warnings that now come from inside the artificial-intelligence industry. Speaking on September 13, the president said the doom talk…
Slowdown Talk Triggers a Global Selloff in AI Stocks
The essay was published over the weekend, and by Monday it had a price. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, argued in a piece that the pace of frontier…
Space42 and Viasat Build a $1 Billion Satellite Platform
The deal was signed on a Sunday and announced the same day. Space42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and space technology company, and Viasat, the American satellite operator, said on…
SK Group Expands Ulsan AI Data Center Toward 900 Megawatts
The scale of the project keeps growing. SK Group’s artificial intelligence data center under construction in Ulsan, South Korea, has been expanded to nearly 900 megawatts of capacity, Chey Tae-won,…
