Oracle Hauls Gas to Its Data Centers by Truck
The data center outside Salt Lake City ran for more than a year on natural gas that arrived by truck. Oracle, waiting for a pipeline to be built and connected…
Britain’s Data Watchdog Turns Its Scrutiny to AI Agents
The British regulator that polices how companies handle personal data spent this year pressing the builders of AI models to change the way they treat people’s information. This week it…
The White House Ends Voluntary AI Incident Reporting
For years, American AI companies decided for themselves when to tell the government that one of their models had misbehaved. That arrangement ended this week, in a statement the White…
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers in a Dispute Over Disclosure
The three dismissals happened quietly last week, three researchers out of OpenAI’s safety group, each handed a slightly different reason. They became public when the researchers posted an open letter…
Anthropic’s Test Model Gave Philadelphia Police a Fictional Tip
The message reached the Philadelphia police through the public forum the department keeps for unsolved homicides, sent shortly before midnight on July 18. It claimed to come from someone with…
A $1.5 Billion Loan to Keep a Chip Supplier at Home
The letter arrived at Wolfspeed with a specific purpose: to keep a stretch of the American chip supply chain from leaving the country. On October 7, the War Department’s Office…
A Chart, a $1.88 Cap, and a Fight Over the Chip Market’s Biggest Licenses
The dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, the two companies whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone on Earth, returned to a Delaware federal courtroom this week, and the argument came…
Nvidia May Turn to Intel for Chip Packaging by 2028
Intel’s foundry has spent years chasing a customer whose name would settle the question of whether the business can compete. A report this week holds out that customer, in the…
AWS Ships a Sandbox to Keep AI Agents on a Leash
The coding assistant that acts on your behalf is also the one that can ruin your week. That tension has been building for a year, as AI agents have gone…
SpaceX’s Push for Launch Spectrum Meets Boeing, Lockheed and Hospitals
The filing arrived at the Federal Communications Commission on October 7 carrying a number that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: ten thousand launches a year. To reach that…
