Trump Confirms Talks With OpenAI on Government Equity Stake
The proposal had circulated privately for months. This week it was confirmed in public: President Trump said he is discussing with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman the possibility of the…
Alphabet Expands Equity Raise to $85 Billion
The offering grew a second time in as many weeks. Alphabet raised the size of its planned equity raise from $80 billion to $85 billion, according to people familiar with…
Meta Weighs Multibillion-Dollar Share Sale to Fund AI Spending
The message to shareholders was blunt. Meta Platforms is considering raising tens of billions of dollars through a large sale of new shares to fund artificial intelligence investment, the Financial…
Meta Borrows Tesla’s Tent Playbook to Speed Data Center Builds
The structure that helped Tesla survive its Model 3 crisis has a new tenant. Meta is adopting the tent-style approach Tesla used in 2018, erecting covered structures outdoors to deploy…
OpenAI Adds Lockdown Mode to Curb Prompt-Injection Leaks
The request had been repeated by enterprise buyers for more than a year: keep our confidential data from leaking through the cracks of the model. OpenAI has answered with a…
Model Routing Spreads, Testing AI Pricing Power
The monthly bill had a new line item, and a smaller total. A growing number of companies are adopting software that decides which AI model handles each request, automatically sending…
Amazon Unveils Warehouse Robots That Follow Spoken Commands
The instruction came in plain English, and the machine obeyed. Amazon has unveiled the next generation of its Proteus warehouse robots, which respond to natural-language commands, alongside a new robot…
SoftBank’s Son Says AI Is Helping Design OpenAI’s Next Model
The disclosure came in passing, in the middle of a public appearance, and it was over in a sentence. Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank, said artificial intelligence systems are…
Google to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for Compute
The disclosure landed in a regulatory filing on a Friday afternoon, one week before the largest initial public offering in history. Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month from…
JPMorgan Ends Its Long Bearish Run on Tesla
For the better part of a decade, JPMorgan was the most persistent skeptic on Tesla on Wall Street. The bank kept an Underweight rating on the electric-vehicle maker from 2018…