UAE Pledges 40 Billion Euros of Investment in Germany
The president of the United Arab Emirates arrived in Berlin this week carrying a number the German government was happy to repeat: 40 billion euros. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al…
Amazon Puts Its Ads Inside ChatGPT and Turns Prime Video Into a Store
Amazon made two moves on September 10 that push the same idea from opposite directions. It agreed to place advertisers’ campaigns inside ChatGPT, and it expanded the shopping features of…
OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into a Junior Analyst for Wall Street
OpenAI released on September 10 a version of ChatGPT built for finance, and it recruited two of the firms that will compete with it to help design the thing. ChatGPT…
OpenAI Halts New Sign-Ups for Its Priciest ChatGPT Tier
OpenAI stopped selling its most expensive consumer product on September 10. Thibault Sottiaux, the company’s product lead, announced on X that new subscriptions and upgrades to the $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro…
Researchers Go Public With a Case for Slowing the AI Race
The safety debate moved from internal channels to the open internet this week. Between September 9 and 11, a string of current and former researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic posted…
Anthropic Details the Misuse of Its Models, From Biolabs to Drone Swarms
Anthropic published on September 10 the most detailed account it has yet offered of how its models are being abused, and how it says it is stopping them. The September…
Microsoft Plans to Triple Data Center Capacity to 38 Gigawatts
Bloomberg reported on September 10, citing people familiar with the plans, that Microsoft intends to expand its global data-center capacity from roughly 12 gigawatts today to more than 38 gigawatts…
Adobe Hands the Top Job to Chakravarthy as Narayen Steps Back
The earnings call carried two announcements, and the second one will outlast the first. Adobe reported record quarterly revenue on Thursday, and in the same call its chief executive of…
Oracle’s Cloud Revenue Doubles as Its Balance Sheet Strains
The numbers that landed after Thursday’s close told two stories at once. Oracle reported first-quarter cloud infrastructure revenue that more than doubled from a year earlier, to $7.4 billion, while…
OpenAI Ends the Dollar-a-Year Federal Deal, Keeps Half-Off Pricing
The dollar-a-year experiment is over. OpenAI will end the pilot program that let U.S. government agencies use its models for a single dollar a year, according to the General Services…
