AWS Chief Counters Data-Center Backlash With a Netflix Question
The pushback on Amazon’s data centers has a one-line retort from the man who runs them. “If you go to a community and say, ‘Do you not want to use…
Venezuela Grants Starlink Seven Licenses to Operate Nationwide
For more than two years, Starlink has reached Venezuelans the way many things reach Venezuelans: through informal channels, at prices set outside the rules. On October 9, the country’s telecommunications…
Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi Fleet Grew Eightfold in a Month
For most of the past year, investors who pressed Tesla about its robotaxi business heard a familiar answer: the Cybercab fleet in Austin was still small, still stuck somewhere between…
SpaceX’s Texas Chip Complex Could Reach $119 Billion
When Elon Musk’s companies first described Terafab, the plan already sounded enormous: a semiconductor and advanced-computing campus in rural Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the largest building on Earth…
ASML Raises Spare-Parts Prices 10% for Korea’s Chipmakers
The notice went out quietly in early September, routed through ASML’s Korean subsidiary. By the time it reached the purchasing departments of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s dominant…
Netflix Prepares to Cut About 800 Jobs, Its Deepest Since 2022
Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its global staff, a reduction of roughly 800 people, according to a report by the entertainment publication Puck that Reuters later matched…
Isomorphic Labs Returns to Market Seeking a $40 Billion Price
Five months after closing its largest financing, the artificial-intelligence drug company spun out of Google DeepMind is back in front of investors, this time with a much bigger number attached…
OpenAI Pushes Its IPO to 2027 to Hold the $1 Trillion Price
Sam Altman has set a specific price on OpenAI’s public debut: $1 trillion. He is now willing to wait a year to get it. OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its…
Nvidia Weighs Buying the Open-Model Lab It Funded
Nvidia has already written one large check to Reflection AI — roughly $800 million to back a two-year-old lab that builds open models for automated programming. Now the chipmaker is…
IonQ Pushes Quantum Networking Past 1,000 Links a Second
A quantum computer on its own can hold only so many qubits. The path to bigger machines runs through connecting several of them, the way classical data centers link servers.…
