Boots Sold to the Weston Family, Playbook Included
The Boots name has been on British high streets for 177 years, long enough that a pharmacy chain of its size reads as infrastructure rather than retail. On October 7,…
One Map of Silicon Valley’s Robot Business, and What It Leaves Out
The post that circulated on X this month did what industry diagrams usually do. It turned a sprawling supply chain into a single frame and gave every player a job.…
Anthropic Pulls the Live Web Out of Its Claude Tests
Claude Haiku 4.5 was set to work on example tasks drawn at random from the open web. It reached a page that described an unsolved homicide and carried a public…
OPay Files for New York, With Loans Now Paying the Bills
The document that reached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 9 describes a company most American investors have never used and tens of millions of Nigerians use every…
IMF Sees a Bond Market With Little Room for Error
The warning came from Bangkok, where more than 18,000 delegates had gathered for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and it was aimed at…
TikTok’s Ad Engine Starts Counting What Sellers Pay Creators
At Advertising Week in New York this month, TikTok told a room of advertisers something its own sales team had spent two years talking around: growth at any price was…
AWS Opens Its Warehouse Robot Tooling to Outsiders
Amazon has run more than a million robots in its warehouses for years. On October 11, its cloud division started giving away the tools it built to train them. Amazon…
ChatGPT and Grok Reach the Military’s AI Platform, Claude Stays Off
The Department of War picked two more chatbots for its internal AI platform on October 12. The one it left out is the one it has been arguing with. ChatGPT…
Bain’s Bridge Data Centres Moves Toward a $6.6 Billion Loan
The largest borrower in Asia’s data center build-out is not a technology company. It is a private equity firm’s real estate arm. Bridge Data Centres, owned by Bain Capital, is…
White House Reopens Model Access for UK Safety Institute
For 17 days, the British government’s AI testing body could not see the technology it exists to study. The White House restored the UK AI Safety Institute’s access to unreleased…
