ChatGPT Can Now Drive Chrome Tabs, and OpenAI Is Giving It to Free Users
OpenAI’s post on X went up on Thursday evening, in the flat register the company uses for product news: “We’re bringing the power of computer use to anyone who uses…
Claude Traces the Seeds of NIST’s Curves to a 1997 Clock Reading
For twenty-five years the number sat in a federal standard without an explanation: SEED = C49D3608 86E70493 6A6678E1 139D26B7 819F7E90. From that value, by a procedure published in 2000, the…
Taiwan Plans Supplier Parks in Texas, With Private Money and Public Backing
Kung Ming-hsin, Taiwan’s economy minister, described the problem this week in the plain terms of a purchasing manager. The companies that make the racks, the cables, the cooling manifolds and…
Foxconn Buys Half of Mitsubishi Electric’s Car-Parts Business
Foxconn said on October 16 that its investment arm Lin Yin had signed an agreement to acquire 50 percent of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility from Mitsubishi Electric for 115 billion yen,…
Intel’s Chief Says Washington Holds 8.2% and Stays Out of the Room
Intel Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said the U.S. government has not used its minority stake to shape company decisions, an assertion that answers a question Intel’s customers have been asking…
Samsung Sets a November Groundbreaking for Its Second Texas Fab
TAYLOR, Texas—The second building on Samsung Electronics’ chip campus here will cover about 2.7 million square feet, half again the size of the first, a figure the company disclosed on…
TSMC’s Second Kumamoto Fab Will Build 3-Nanometer Chips at a Fraction of the Planned Scale
In Kikuyo, a town on the plain west of Kumamoto city, the second building on TSMC’s Japanese site has been rising next to the first for more than a year.…
Anthropic Takes a Draft AI Safety Bill to Congress, With a $1 Billion Trigger
On Capitol Hill, the folders that circulate in the office buildings along Independence Avenue are usually written by committee staff. A set of them that moved through meetings over the…
Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
Anthropic’s $60 Billion Chip Deal Carries a 10% Coupon and Sets a Benchmark for AI Debt
The term sheet that reached credit investors this week carried a number more often associated with a troubled retailer than with a company selling subscriptions to a chatbot. For 60…
