Amazon Builds Custom Chips for Echo and Fire TV as AI Moves Into the Device
The device that sits on millions of kitchen counters is about to get a new brain. Amazon’s top hardware executive said this week that the company is focused on building…
U.S. Nears Voluntary Safety Standards for Frontier AI Models
The officials and the executives had been meeting for weeks in Washington, and by Thursday an outline had finally taken shape: the government would not impose binding rules, and the…
SoftBank Plans U.S. AI Cloud Push With 10 Gigawatts of Data Centers
The plan, according to people familiar with it, has been in preparation for months, and it is audacious even by SoftBank standards: build an American cloud business from scratch, rent…
Micron Chief Takes Aim at Bargain-Hunting Memory Buyers
The complaint, delivered in the careful language of a CEO who knows every word will be parsed, was aimed at an unnamed customer, and no one in the industry had…
OpenAI Proposes Giving the U.S. Government a 5% Stake
The idea, floated in preliminary discussions between OpenAI and the Trump administration, is unlike anything the technology industry has proposed in Washington: hand the government a roughly 5% stake in…
Nvidia Bets on Revenue Sharing to Fund the Next Wave of AI Factories
The announcement, made on July 1, describes a partnership model that Nvidia has never used at scale: instead of simply selling chips, the company will help AI cloud providers build…
Portugal Unveils Its Own AI Model, Betting on the Portuguese Language
The announcement came on July 1, wrapped in the patriotic packaging that national technology projects tend to attract: Portugal’s government unveiled Amalia, a large language model built around the Portuguese…
Meta Names Its First Chief Data Officer as AI Reshapes the Company
The promotion, announced this week, consolidates a job that has been spreading across Meta for years: Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer, will become its first chief data officer,…
Nvidia Buys Into Security Camera Maker Verkada at $5.8 Billion Valuation
The investment, announced Wednesday, extends Nvidia’s reach into a business it does not usually touch: video surveillance. Verkada, a ten-year-old company that sells security cameras and the software that runs…
Anthropic Says It Will Remove Hidden Checks Targeting Chinese Users in Claude Code
The discovery began, as these things often do, with a curious developer taking a tool apart. A user who reverse-engineered Claude Code, Anthropic’s programming assistant, found that since April the…
