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 Memory Chipmaker Has Sold More Than It Can Ship in a Quarter
The clearest sign of how tight the market for AI memory chips has become came on an earnings call in early October, when Kash Shaikh, the chief executive of Penguin…
A Startup Worth $200 Million Three Weeks Ago Just Raised at $7.5 Billion
On September 15, a San Francisco company called TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with a 40-million-dollar seed round led by DCVC and a valuation of roughly 200 million dollars. Twenty-four…
Boston Dynamics Hands Its Robots to the Man Who Built Alexa
For nearly a year, the company that makes the world’s most famous robots had no permanent leader. Robert Playter, who ran Boston Dynamics for six years and spent three decades…
Europe’s Largest Pension Fund Writes Its First Check to a Homegrown Tech Bet
ABP, the pension fund for Dutch government and education workers, is the biggest retirement pool in the Netherlands and one of the largest on earth. So when it announced on…
A Dark Web Bazaar Ends in a 40-Year Sentence
Raheim Hamilton was 30 years old when a federal judge in Chicago handed down the sentence on Monday: 40 years in prison, a $5 million fine, and the loss of…
Inside the $28 Billion Family Office George Soros Built
In the summer of 2011, George Soros made a decision that puzzled the hedge fund world: he gave his outside investors their money back. Soros Fund Management, the firm he…
Wall Street’s Trading Boom Starts to Split
When Goldman Sachs reports third-quarter results on Tuesday morning, the first of the big banks to step forward, the number most likely to move its stock sits a line or…
A Coffee Giant Looks at a Burrito Chain
The report landed Tuesday and did what such reports do: it moved a stock on a rumor. On October 8, word emerged that Starbucks had held internal discussions about whether…
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…
