A Nvidia-Backed Startup Wants Rival AI Chips to Talk
The largest AI data centers are built around one supplier’s chips and one supplier’s way of wiring them together. A Santa Clara startup carrying Nvidia’s money is betting that arrangement…
Qualcomm’s Royalty Fight With Arm Goes to a Delaware Jury
For five days a Delaware courtroom heard the argument, and on the morning of October 9 the twelve people who will decide it were sent to deliberate. At stake in…
Google Shrinks Its Free AI Assistant to a Single Model
Opening the Gemini app on October 9 meant something different for people who had never paid Google a cent. The heavier models were gone. Free users woke to a single…
Amazon Brings Its Satellite Internet to Market, Under Starlink’s Shadow
The satellite that came off the line this week carried no special marking, but it was the thousandth Amazon had built. Sometime in the next few weeks, the company plans…
Micron Readies a $35 Billion Buyback as Its Taiwan Workers Prepare to Walk Out
The two numbers arrived within days of each other and told opposite stories. Micron’s board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $35.16 billion, effective December 9. In Taiwan,…
Apple Pares iPhone 18 Pro Orders as the Price Rises
For years, the Pro iPhone was the one product Apple could raise prices on and still watch demand hold steady. This autumn, that assumption wobbled. Apple has told some suppliers…
Cloudflare Gives Its Decision Model Ears and Eyes
The model Cloudflare built to answer questions without writing a single sentence can now watch video and listen to audio. On October 9 the company released Clef-omni, extending its family…
USA Today Sues OpenAI and Demands Its Models Be Destroyed
The publisher behind USA Today sued OpenAI on October 8 and asked a court to do what no major copyright plaintiff has yet achieved: order the models themselves destroyed. The…
Microsoft Sells a Model That Scores Choices Instead of Writing
Microsoft’s newest AI product does not write. Give it a list of options and it returns a probability for each one — a score, not a sentence. The company is…
Musk and Ambani Clash Over Starlink’s Path Into India
Elon Musk has spent four years trying to bring Starlink to India, a market of more than 1.4 billion people and one of the few large populations his satellite service…
